St Cecilia Triduum December
5-7 December 2024 Mary Immaculate cannot fail to guide our reflections this month, as our triduum takes place just before her feast. At the same time, the Immaculate Conception fits in well with the preparation for Christmas through the liturgy of Advent. Three thoughts can nourish our prayer during these three days of extra prayer […]
Advent is About Loving More
1st Sunday after Advent As promised last week, let’s consider today the Second Coming of Our Lord and the end of the world, not from the perspective of the suffering it will bring, but rather from that of the joyful encounter with our Saviour. It goes without saying that such joy can only belong to […]
How to Avoid Being Seduced by the False Prophet
Last Sunday after Pentecost On this last Sunday of the liturgical year, Holy Mother Church fittingly places before our eyes the spectacle of the end of the world and the second coming of Our Lord. Next Sunday, first of Advent, she will again place the end of time before our eyes. This too is fitting […]
From Acorn to Oak
26th Sunday after Pentecost – 6th after Epiphany transferred In today’s holy Gospel we are again given a comparison with nature that explains something fundamental about our faith. Our Lord refers to the tiny mustard seed which becomes a large bush, and to the invisible leaven which causes the dough to rise. Familiar, everyday happenings […]
A Tale of Two Tares
25th Sunday after Pentecost – 5th after Epiphany transferred Today’s holy Gospel speaks to us of the tares sown amidst the wheat. What are the tares that have been sown in the field of the Church? They are the heresies that corrupt the faith and the lives of the faithful. Throughout history there have been […]
You Can’t Be Poorer Than Dead!
24th Sunday after Pentecost Today’s holy Gospel portrays Our Blessed Lord sleeping in the boat while the disciples are about to be immersed in the waves. He seems indifferent to their plight, but in reality He is testing their confidence. This is evident from the words He addresses to them when they wake Him: Why […]
The Key to Sanctity
All Saints On this feast of All Saints, Holy Mother Church reads again for us as a Mother reads for her children, the Gospel of the Beatitudes which are the ultimate fruit of the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. It is because a soul believes in what God has revealed, trusts in the […]
St Cecilia Triduum November 2024
31 October – 2 November 2024 This month’s novena begins Thursday on the vigil of All Saints, better known today as Halloween (All Hallow’s Eve). Traditionally it is a day of fasting and so fits well with our triduum. Due to the clearly diabolical nature of much of what Halloween has become, however, it is […]
To Serve is to Reign
Christ the King On the day of the Annunciation, the archangel Gabriel told our Blessed Lady that the child she was to bear would “reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there would be no end”. To reign forever and to have a kingdom which will not end are two different […]
