There’s a question thrown up by the evangelists to resolve: was the revelation after Jesus’ Baptism physical and public, or not?  Did it...

To each and to all, a very merry Christmas.  I hope and pray the joy of this feast overruns you, to sweep you up in the Good News: the...

John the Baptist didn’t fulfil his vocation.  The job he had been born to do went undone.  He was a priest on both sides of his family. ...

It’s a strange thing St Paul has asked us to do: pray with thanksgiving.  He might mean that we’re always to remember to say thank you to...

It’s thought that John the Baptist entered the desert as a hermit after the death of his parents.  We recall how Elizabeth and Zechariah...

All this talk again about the end of the world can seem quite far fetched and far off, unless we put ourselves into it.  The Lord has...

We have before us the problem of unfulfilled prophecy: the Son of Man didn’t return in the lifetimes of the first generation of...

We could do well to detect a note of defiance in our widow’s action.  She may very well be one of those widows who lost out against...

ember 2024

We might need some help to refresh us on fulfilling the two commandments, loving God and neighbour.  Today, that is, the third of...