Advent… 1st Sunday – The Doorkeeper 28 Nov 202021 Dec 2020 Young Woman Holding a Lamp, Gerard Dou Mauritshuis, Netherlands. Isaiah 63:16-17,64:1-8, Mark 13:33-37 Advent is perhaps the most beautiful of the Church’s liturgical seasons. In the run up to Christmas,…
Feasts… Christ the King – The Sheep and the Goats 20 Nov 202013 Dec 2020 The Last Judgment, Michelangelo Matthew 25:31-46 If you’ve been to the Sistine Chapel, you can’t fail to be impressed by the full length mural serving as the backdrop to the…
Ordinary Time… Thursday Week 33 – 7 seals, 7 Horns, 7 Eyes 19 Nov 202019 Nov 2020 Apocalypse 5:1-10 Anyone who has picked up the book of Revelation knows that it has some strange imagery. In the first reading today we see a Lamb with seven horns…
Ordinary Time… 33rd Sunday – Fear, Valour and the Joy of the Lord 15 Nov 202012 Dec 2020 The Stretcher, Eleuterio Pagliano. Prov 31:10-31, Matt 25:14-30 We come to the final parable in Matthew’s gospel. It leads to the awesome scene of the Final Judgement, which also sets…
Ordinary Time… 32nd Sunday – The Burning Love of the Bride 8 Nov 202028 Nov 2020 Wise and Foolish Virgins, William Blake Matt 25:1-13 Weddings, then, like now, were elaborate affairs. They probably lasted a whole week. In first century Jewish weddings, the man would first…
