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Christmas…

Baptism of the Lord – Open to the Father’s Love

10 Jan 202123 Jan 2021
The Baptism of Christ, Leonardo da Vinci Isaiah 42:1-7, Mark 1: 7-11 2015 saw the demise of one of the brightest intellectuals of our age, Rene Girard. His work spanned…
Christmas…

Feast of the Baptism – One with Us

10 Jan 202116 Jan 2021
Do you remember Jacob’s ladder, with the angels ascending and descending? Throughout the Christmas season we have contemplated how God came down that ladder to our world, how he came…
Feasts…

Epiphany – The Risk of Faith

5 Jan 202116 Jan 2021
Matthew 2:1-12 The feast of Epiphany. We meet the Magi, these well-loved characters in every crib. Today, they are contrasted with another character, Herod. Between them, they represent the best…
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…
Feasts…

Carlo Acutis and The Feast of All Saints

31 Oct 202020 Nov 2020
Fra Angelico, The Forerunners of Christ with Saints and Martyrs  Matt 5:1-12 “The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.” ― Léon Bloy I grew up being quite perplexed…
Feasts

The Feast of John Henry Newman

9 Oct 202023 Oct 2020
Sophie Scholl might not be a familiar name to many. She is, however, a legend in Germany. About 200 schools are named after her and was voted ‘woman of the…
Feasts…

Assumption of Mary – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

16 Aug 20204 Sep 2020
Revelation 11:19-12:10, Luke 1:39-56 Assumption of the Virgin by Corregio, Fresco 1939. Hardly twenty years had passed from what had been thought of as the ‘war to end all wars’.…
Feasts…

Sts Peter and Paul – Archetypes of the Church

28 Jun 202012 Jul 2020
Acts 12:1-11, 2 Timothy 4:6-8,17-18, Matthew 16:13-19 Peter and Paul, by El Greco The Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul. These two saints have been venerated from the earliest times…
Feasts…

Corpus Christi – The Gravitational Force of Heaven

13 Jun 20205 Jul 2020
The Institution of the Eucharist by Ercole de' Roberti Deuteronomy 8:2-16, John 6:51-58 In 1263, in the town of Bolsena in Italy, during Mass, just after consecration, the host started…
Feasts…

Corpus Christi -food that Saves

13 Jun 202021 Jun 2020
At last the Churches are opening! Public masses are still a few weeks away, however. And as this sacramental fast draws to a close, we’re hungry. Hungry for the Living…
Feasts…

Trinity Sunday – Love and Gift at the heart of the World

6 Jun 202028 Jun 2020
Exodus 34:4-9, John 3:16-18 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son.” It is not without reason that many consider this short verse from John 3:16…
Feasts

The Annunciation – The Burden of Mary

25 Mar 20209 Apr 2020
One of the most painful experiences in life is to carry the burden of unanswered prayer. Such prayer, arises from the depth of one’s heart and is not dismissed easily,…
Feasts…

Baptism of the Lord – The Approach of the King

12 Jan 20203 Apr 2020
Isaiah 42:1-7, Matthew 3:13-17 In the Chronicles of Narnia, the first experience the children have as they encounter the enchanted land of Narnia is quite gloomy. The legitimate rulers of…
Feasts…

Christ the King – The Monothelite Controversy

24 Nov 20195 Apr 2020
What does it mean to say Christ is King? What does it mean to say we have to submit to Christ's rule? We have a continuing form of monarchy in…

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