Friday, December 19, 2025

The Holy Mass Part VI: The Bread of Life

This Sunday’s reflection is the sixth in a series of meditations on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, with specific references to the Ancient...

The State as Corrupting

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” ― Leo Tolstoy If you peruse the Showbiz section of any...

Suffer the Little Children…

In Mark, 10, Jesus is asked by the Pharisees (“to test Him”) whether divorce is lawful. As He admits, the Law of Moses (Deuteronomy...

What’s Wrong with the World? Well, The Hatred of Words, and the Word

I suspect there are few people left who don’t think there’s something very wrong in the world today, whatever their political and moral leanings...

Argumentative Starting Points

Jesus provides us with a motive for acting, viz., the love of God, which in practical terms produces a love of our neighbours. The...

St Teresa of Avila: A Practical Spiritual Companion on our Spiritual Journey

One of the great spiritual masters of all time is Saint Teresa of Avila, whose feast we celebrate today. Her teaching and example offer...

Saint Anselm’s Idea of God

“ontology” defined ~ the science of being Some students are fortunate enough to have had a teacher who made all the difference in life. I...

The Courage to Be a Mother

“And when the wine was failing, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said to her: ‘Woman, what...

The Thirty Third Sunday’s Eschaton

Beware that you are not led astray (Lk. 21:8). â§Ÿ The sacred liturgy again today directs our attention to the eschaton, the teaching about the...

A Heritage Lost? Jean Langlais and Post-Conciliar Sacred Music

Catholics have sung our praise to God for the entirety of the Church’s history. For at least a thousand years, Gregorian chant formed the...