Mass in Pyjamas?
When I go to work during this pandemic, I make doubly sure that I am properly dressed and have adequate PPE â 'personal protective...
Echoes of Holiness: The Relics of Saint Andrew Bobola
(Pope Saint John Paul II had a great devotion to Saint Andrew Bobola, and venerated his relics - fitting on this twentieth anniversary of...
Second Sunday: Do Whatever He Tells You
His mother said to the servants, âDo whatever he tells youâ (Jn. 2:5). ⧟
In the Gospel of St. John which we have just heard,...
Irving Babbitt on Governing a Democracy
Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) was a literary critic and co-founder with Paul Elmer More of an early 20th century movement called the New Humanism. Babbitt...
Saint-SaĂ«ns’ Danse Macabre
Charles-Camille Saint-SaĂ«ns (9 October 1835 â 16 December 1921) was a child prodigy, some say even more so than the incomparable Mozart, developing perfect...
The Office of Peter
As everyone knows, the word âcatholicâ means all inclusive. It can be used with no religious connotation, as in âa catholic taste in reading,â...
The True Meaning of Poverty: Twenty Eighth Sunday
âHow hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of Godâ (Mk. 10:24).
As with many of Our Lordâs sayings,...
St Joseph Moscati: a Faithful Labourer in the Vineyard of the Lord Â
On November 16th we, as a Church, celebrate the feast day of Saint Joseph Moscati, or, as he is commonly known by many who...
L’Arche: A Beginning
In light of the upcoming parliamentary decision to be made concerning so-called 'euthanasia laws', we have decided to re-print over the next while a...
Saint Bernard, Contemplatio in Actio
Today, the 20th of August, the universal Church celebrates âthe man of the twelfth centuryâ, St Bernard of Clairvaux.
Born in 1090 in Fontaines, France,...
