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...
Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans
Juditha Triumphans is an oratorio by Antonio Vivaldi, the only one of four he is known to have written which survived. Its date of...
The True Love of God
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind…. You shall love...
Covid 2: The Sequel
The World Health Organization’s special envoy on COVID-19 has urged world leaders to stop using lockdowns as the primary control method against the spread...
Whither our Sanctity?
If you were to consult a catalogue of saints, you would not find the name of Zacchaeus listed. Do you recall who he was—the...
Alicja Lenczewska’s Encounters with Jesus, and Their Remedy for Sin
When a confessor hears the same sins repeated over and over again, a thousand million times over, he may begin to wonder if there’s...
A Saint Visits Malta
In his apostolic exhortation on the call of holiness in today’s world, Gaudete et Exsultate, Pope Francis wrote: “The saints are distinguished by a spirit...
As Steals the Morn
One of Handel's most delightful Arias, 'As Steals the Morn', with the libretto lightly adapted from Act 5, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Tempest:
The charm...
Fields Where Freedom Grows
In Flanders Fields where poppies grow
Lines of a poem that I know
Today takes on a different meaning
To those who are divergently leaning.
'Lest we forget';...
Pope Benedict and Gertrude the Great
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Saint Peter's Square
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
Saint Gertrude the Great
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
St Gertrude the Great, of whom I would like...