What we recognise from celebrating and reflecting upon our recent Holy Week liturgies, is that the Lord has done all the really tough redemptive work for us through His passion, death and resurrection. Our task now, is to take it to heart and share it with others in whatever ways we can – especially through […]

If not for God revealing Himself to us through His Word, whose Paschal deeds opened the doorway to eternity for us, where would we be now? Nowhere! Jesus’ death and resurrection has given light to the blind, hope to the hopeless and eternal life to all who will accept it. Today we have been given […]

As we begin Holy Week each year with our celebration of Palm Sunday, we may be stunned by what appears to be an incredible display of human duplicity, with crowds crying “Hosanna in the highest!” one day followed by “Crucify him!” just a few days later. Some years ago, the great scripture scholar, Pope Benedict […]

During Lent each year we have prayers called the Scrutinies, which we pray with those being received into the Church at Easter. The purpose of these is to prompt the Elect to examine their lives in preparation for joining themselves to the Lord through the 3 sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist. This should remind […]