Music of the Archangels
For our musical offering this week, we thought we'd go on this day dedicated to the Archangels to a composer named after them, Archangelo...
Michael, Prince of the Angelic Host
The second last day of September, the 29th, is the feast of St Michael the Archangel. But who is this Prince of all the...
Philomela – A Poem
"Philomela"
A lark sings through the hellish gloom;
Calls out to her Author.
Praising, loving, she cries her tune,
Piercing my ears to bother.
A lonely cry, muffled and...
Jubilee Year Homily of Pope John Paul II for the Canonization of Sister Faustina
HOMILY OF THE HOLY FATHER
MASS IN ST PETER’S SQUARE FOR THE CANONIZATION
OF SR MARY FAUSTINA KOWALSKA
Sunday, 30 April 2000
1. “Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus, quoniam in...
C.S. Lewis and the World’s Last Night
There is much talk of the 'last days', the apocalypse, the end of the world. In in the midst of the turmoil that swirls...
The Power of the Holy Rosary
Today, Wednesday 7 October 2021, the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. In the silence of my heart Pope Francis’...
Bach’s Cello Suite 5
J.S. Bach wrote six suites for unaccompanied cello, composed between 1717 and 1723, are amongst the commonly performed works for the instrument, and rightly...
Saint Serafino da Montegranaro
In the Little Flowers of St Francis, which is a florilegium in 53 short chapters which in it we find contained the life of St...
Avila’s Teresa
(From our archives, on the great 16th century Carmelite reformer Saint Theresa of Avila, whose sparkling, vivid and very human personality echoes through the...
Saint Teresa as the Teacher of a Successful Life
How beautiful and life-giving it is to see the saints’ lives as pointers to true life! St Teresa of Avila, whose feast is today,...