We’re so used to praying through St Anthony to God, asking him to intercede for us for various things we need. But of course, we mustn’t forget the other important dimension of saints, which is that we’re supposed to, in some sense, imitate them, or at least, learn...
The Holy Spirit is probably the hardest person of the Blessed Trinity to envisage. Father and Son are more familiar images and more easily relatable to than a dove or fire, or wisdom. Granted, there are other more personal images used in the Gospels, such as a...
During his last supper with his disciples, Jesus is concerned about what will happen to them when he leaves. As one theologian put it, “Jesus had the unmitigated gall to leave his friends, not once, but twice – first on Calvary and then when he ascended to his...
We come now to the concluding section of the Lord’s discourse on the bread of life in the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel. Up to this, the rejection of his message has come mainly from the religious authorities, but now it is the disciples who are scandalised by his...
Peter’s mission is to preach the good news that God has a wonderfully wide net that wishes to draw us all into his love. And once we are caught in that net of love through our baptism, we can also embrace our mission to be fishers of men and women like Peter.
We are at the beginning of Holy Week which invites us to ponder and reflect on the final journey of Jesus. Most of the people Jesus encountered on that final journey were hostile to him. Yet, according to today’s Gospel, six days before the feast of...
I’ve always been fascinated by the mystery of what Jesus wrote in the dirt to so affect the accusers of the adulterous woman. Stoning remains today as a legal punishment in some Muslim countries even though it’s not mentioned in the Koran. In 2021 in Mali a...
In Gospel’s like today’s Gospel, people are often told to put themselves in the position of one of the major characters of the story. So, we might identify with the Prodigal Son. I suppose we’re all sinners in one way or another; we’ve all travelled away from our...
Pope Francis has spoken on several occasions about his devotion to St. Joseph. He says that Joseph is his favourite saint. This is because Joseph reveals to us how God reveals his plan to us in silence and in rest. Pope keeps a statue of a sleeping St Joseph on his...