Dedication of the Lateran Basilica: A call to holiness.
Brothers and sisters, you are God’s building. ... For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. (1 Cor 3:9, 17)
Today we celebrate the...
Spy Wednesday and the Rending of the Veil
It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun’s light failed;...
Everyday Advice from Saint Thomas
One of the greatest minds of all time is certainly that of St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), whose feast we celebrate on this January 28th.
Even...
Philip and James: Apostles in Arms
Philip and James, Apostles, have been celebrated together on this third day in May since the revision of the calendar in 1969. They were...
Losing the Will, and the Right, to Live
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come...
A society so afraid of death, that it is afraid to live
As the recent addition to our lexicon, COVID-19, rolls off the tongues, and streams off the texts of so many throughout the world these...
Handel’s Messiah and the Resurrection
This day, in 1742, April 13th, was the first performance of Handel’s Messiah, in Dublin, of all places. Here was an Oratorio, following the...
Mission Sunday, Gospel, Church and Anti-Church
‘Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s’ (Mt. 22: 21). ⧾
Today is World Mission...
Diversity, The First Person In The Triad Of The New Religion
Introduction
Diversity is esteemed to be an overarching good and a fundamental value such as love, prudence or justice, which are deemed always good irrespective...
19th Sunday: The Sacred Host
Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh....
