Year B The Spirit and the Common Good 19 May 202418 May 2024 Pentecost Sunday, St Patrick's Soho Square Look around, we’re so diverse. Strikes me as people come forwards to receive communion – especially when people receive on the hand. Old and…
Year B A Tower Reaching Up to Heaven 18 May 2024 Vigil Mass of Pentecost, St Patrick's Soho Square At Babel, the whole of humanity united to build a city in defiance of God. God scattered them and confused their languages.…
Easter… Pentecost – Lukan or Johannine? 18 May 2024 Acts 2:1-11, John 20:19-23 With Pentecost we complete the Easter season: here, we receive everything Christ won for us on the Cross. The immense suffering and agony he went through,…
Pentecost… Pentecost – Sober Intoxication of the Spirit 27 May 202317 Jun 2023 Ezekiel 37:1-14, John 7:37-39 With Pentecost we complete the Easter season: here Easter produces the fruit of Jesus’ work on the Cross. Pentecost, therefore, comes with incredible gifts, because it…
Easter… Low Sunday -Marked by Mercy 15 Apr 20236 May 2023 Doubting Thomas by Duccio John 20:19-31 In one of his first interviews after his election as Pope, when asked how he would describe himself, Pope Francis replied, he was a…
Advent… 2nd Week of Advent – The Seven-fold Spirit of the King 4 Dec 202224 Dec 2022 Detail from the famous Jesse Tree, Chartres Cathedral Isa 11:1-10 I am just back from a Confirmation retreat with youngsters in the parish (and hence very late in posting this).…
Year C Pentecost – Under the Influence 4 Jun 202225 Jun 2022 ‘No one can say Jesus Christ is Lord, except under the influence of the Holy Spirit’ (1 Cor 12:3) Pentecost. We come to the completion of the Easter season; where,…
Ascension… Ascension – Where he went, Whom he sent, Why it matters 26 May 202212 Jun 2022 Acts 1:1-11 As we celebrate the solemnity of the Ascension, I wanted to touch on just three things to explore something of this most mysterious feast. Of all the feasts…
Easter… 6th Sunday of Easter – At Home with the Trinity 22 May 20224 Jun 2022 John 14:23-29 We are nearing the time of the Ascension of Jesus to the Father. The gospel once again goes to the time of the Last Supper. Here, Jesus opens…
Pentecost… Pentecost – (How to be) Renewed by the Spirit 23 May 202112 Jun 2021 Pentecost, El Greco Gal 5:16-25 We come to the close of the Easter Season. But Pentecost is not really the close, even the grand finale of the Easter Season –…
Easter… Pentecost – The Spirit and the Dragon 30 May 202014 Jun 2020 Acts 2:1-11 Pentecost by El Greco Hong Kong has been a lot in the news lately. In more peaceful times, a visit to the beautiful Kowloon Walled City Park would…
Easter… 7th Week (Monday) -Did you Receive the Spirit? 25 May 202013 Jun 2020 Acts 19:1-8 Today's first reading from the Acts of the Apostles is quite amusing: it talks about some of the shaky first steps of the growing Church. There’s a group…
Ascension… 7th Sunday – Why stand here looking to the sky? 23 May 202023 May 2021 L'Ascension by Gustave Doré Acts 1:1-11 We are living in a particular period of time. By that, I don’t mean the Corona virus. The time between Ascension on Thursday and…