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GIVING THANKS October 12, 2025In today’s gospel, only one leper out of ten, a foreigner at that, came back to thank Our Lord for healing him. What is the proportion of thanksgiving in your prayers compared with requests...Posted: Oct-08-2025 -
" FAITH " October 5, 2025The Apostles ask Our Lord to “increase our faith!” His reply is “if you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could tell a tree to uproot itself and be planted in the sea, and...Posted: Oct-01-2025
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THE HOLY ARCHANGELS September 28, 2025On Monday we will be celebrating the Feast of the Holy Archangels and on 2nd October we keep the Feast of the Guardian Angels. We honour the Archangel Raphael, who represents the healing power of God...Posted: Sep-24-2025
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IRRATIONAL ATHEISM SEPTEMBER 21, 2025Recently I saw a poster which, in some words, shows the absurdity, the irrationality and nihilistic nature of atheism. It read: ...Posted: Sep-17-2025
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THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS September 14, 2025It is easy, when you live in a country which is at least Christian in its cultural roots, to take the sign of the Cross for granted. Most of us see several crosses per day, on...Posted: Sep-12-2025 -
WHAT DOES IT COST TO BE A TRUE FOLLOWER OF OUR LORD? September 7, 2025Today's Gospel contains one of our Lord’s “hard” teachings. Even by Our Lord’s own account, being His follower is not easy. There are choices to be made, and consequences to be taken on...Posted: Sep-03-2025
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THE FEAST OF STS. PETER AND PAUL June 29, 2025We celebrate today a particular feast of the Roman Church. Peter, chosen by Christ to be the First among the Apostles; and Paul, chosen by Christ ‘as one born out of due time’, because he encountered Our Lord...Posted: Jun-25-2025 -
CORPUS CHRISTI June 22, 2025Today is Corpus Christi Sunday. Since Holy Thursday was too close to the sufferings of Our Lord to offer any but the briefest celebration of such a momentous gift as the Eucharist, the Church took the...Posted: Jun-18-2025
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OUR GOD WHO IS LIGHT, LIFE AND LOVE June 15, 2025Immediately after Pentecost we celebrate the central mystery of our faith: the One, Almighty God in three equal and undivided, yet distinct Persons. We call God the “Holy Trinity” to express this truth which Our Lord taught us...Posted: Jun-11-2025 -
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE “SOUL OF THE CHURCH” June 8, 2025We call today’s feast the “Birthday of the Church” because the outpouring of the Holy Spirit marked the beginning of the Apostles’ mission to the world, a mission which the Church on...Posted: Jun-04-2025 -
THE ASCENSION June 1, 2025The Ascension of Our Lord to the right side of His Father in heaven, is the climax of His earthly existence. After His resurrection He said to Mary Magdalene, ‘I have not yet ascended to My Father.’ Now...Posted: May-28-2025 -
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER May 25, 2025The season of Eastertide lasts for eight weeks, during which time we celebrate the resurrection, the appearances of the Risen Lord to the disciples, and His preparing them for His Ascension and for the Coming of the Holy Spirit. So...Posted: May-21-2025
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CITIZENS OF THIS WORLD - AND THE NEXT May 18, 2025In today’s Gospel reading from the Last Supper discourse in St. John, Our Lord gives us a new commandment: “Love one another as I have loved you”. As Catholics we know that...Posted: May-15-2025
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WHAT MAKES A SHEPHERD “GOOD”? May 11, 2025In the Gospel of the Fourth Sunday of Eastertide each year we hear a passage from the tenth chapter of St. John’s Gospel in which Our Lord speaks to us about Himself as the...Posted: May-08-2025
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THE RISEN SAVIOUR'S GIFT OF PEACE! May 4, 2025I am sure you have noticed the frequency with which, after His Resurrection, Our Lord greets His disciples with those simple words: “Peace be with you”. They are words which also come to us in one form or...Posted: Apr-30-2025
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ALLELUIA! April 27, 2025The Entrance Antiphon and Collect of Today's Mass speak of the new life of the baptised. Today's Gospel tells of the appearances of Our Lord to the Apostles both on the day of His resurrection, and exactly one...Posted: Apr-23-2025
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WE ARE AN EASTER PEOPLE April 20, 2025The world sometimes accepts the death of Jesus but denies the resurrection as being outside history. For this very reason we Catholics, on this Easter Sunday, profess our faith. Because God raised Jesus from the dead...Posted: Apr-19-2025 -
HOSANNA! - (OH LORD, SAVE US!) April 13, 2025Palm Sunday recalls Our Lord’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem at the very beginning of the same week in which He would be arrested, tortured, condemned to death and executed on the cross. All four...Posted: Apr-09-2025 -
PASSIONTIDE April 6, 2025The Fifth Sunday of Lent is often known as the "First Sunday in Passiontide", because now the "time of Our Lord's saving Passion is drawing closer". This week ahead takes on many of the characteristics...Posted: Apr-02-2025 -
DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO HATE YOU March 30, 2025We live in an era in which verbal attack is commonplace. Politically, much of western society has become divided to the point of extreme polarization, in which one side views the other as positively evil. One politician running for the...Posted: Mar-26-2025
