Lift Up Your Heads!
Second Sunday of Lent On this Second Sunday of Lent, Holy Mother Church seeks to prepare us for the events of Holy Week by placing before our eyes the vision of Our Lord’s glorious Transfiguration. The event took place just weeks before the actual passion, and St Leo tells us that it was precisely so […]
The Solidity Of Stone
First Sunday of Lent On this first Sunday of Lent, Holy Mother Church invites us out to the desert with Christ Our Lord. She recalls to our minds His strict fast of 40 days, followed by His triple temptation. St Paul tells us that Christ was likened to us in all things, and was tempted, […]
Open My Eyes To The Truth
Quinquagesima Sunday On this Sunday before Lent, at the threshold of the Holy Forty Days of penance, Holy Mother Church, for the third Sunday in a row, presents us with an inimitable mosaic of texts designed to prepare us to enter the Lenten struggle with the proper intentions. Most noteworthy is the epistle, which is […]
Perseverare Diabolicum
Sexagesima Sunday Today’s Gospel brings before us the parable of the sower. Our Lord is the sower who sows the seed of His word in every age and in every heart. More often than not, that seed bears no fruit. The reasons are multiple: hardly has it been sown that the devil himself comes and […]
We Know Exactly What Jesus Meant
Septuagesima Sunday On this day, Holy Mother Church sets aside her usual sentiments of joy and dons the garments of penitence. This morning at Matins we were reminded of creation and the fall, and finally were treated to the Gospel of the workers in the vineyard, the gist of which is that in every age, […]
Weeds That Dehumanize And Decatholicize
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany In today’s Gospel we learn that the Lord sows good seed in the world. What is this good seed? Quite simply, it is the Christian souls with whom He shares His divine life by means of adoption into His own family through Baptism and the other sacraments. It is the pure […]
When Jesus Sleeps
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany Behold a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was covered with waves, but He was asleep. How often in the history of the Church have we not thought that all was lost. A great tempest arises. The boat is tossed to and fro, it is about to […]
Perfection Is Imperfectible
Dedication of St Mary’s Cathedral, Hobart Today in the archdiocese of Hobart we commemorate the dedication of St Mary’s Cathedral. Even though few Catholics have the opportunity to attend the actual consecration of a church, let alone a cathedral, we do have each year the grace to celebrate the anniversary of its consecration. In the […]
Vox Clamantis In Rhyndaston
We were honoured to have with us for a few days Jaan-Eik Tulvé, director of the Estonian ensemble Vox Clamantis. Jaan-Eik, whom Fr Prior got to know in Flavigny where he directed the St Joseph CD, is in Australia at the moment with his singers giving concerts in Melbourne and Sydney. Jaan-Eik has a profound […]
