“It Will Have To Be Atoned For”
9th Sunday after Pentecost The scene of today’s Gospel takes us back to Palm Sunday. As Our Lord and His disciples approach the city, they reach a promontory today known as the Dominus flevit, where Our Lord halts, takes in, across the valley, the spectacular sight of the prestigious city, and unexpectedly begins to weep. […]
The One Task Before Us
8th Sunday after Pentecost We find ourselves, on this eighth Sunday, as it were, taken back to Pentecost. Indeed, at the very heart of today’s liturgy lies the resplendent mystery of the Church as presented in the great Pentecostal Psalm (Psalm 47). Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of […]
The Fruits Of Holiness And Wisdom
7th Sunday after Pentecost By their fruits you shall know them. In the epistle of today’s Mass, St Paul points out that if we have in the past handed over the members of our body to impurity, now that we are baptised, this is no longer possible, nor is it profitable. For indeed, the flesh […]
Increase Your Religion
6th Sunday after Pentecost This morning at Matins, we were given to read of the exemplary penance of King David after his double crime of adultery and murder. David’s fall was tragic, it was as disgrace. After all he had received from God, he fell into the most abominable of crimes. And so far was […]
Going Out And Digging Deep
Solemnity of St Benedict The twelfth chapter of the book of Genesis begins with the call of Abraham: “Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father’s house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I […]
Setting The Enemy Free
5th Sunday after Pentecost Last night at Vespers and again this morning at Matins, Holy Mother Church put before our eyes the dirge intoned by David at the death of Saul and Jonathan. It is truly amazing, no doubt divine, how a plaintive chant composed three millennia ago can still provoke emotion. What is even […]
At Thy Command
4th Sunday after Pentecost If you have ever been blessed to go to Rome and visit St Peter’s Basilica, you cannot forget the overwhelming impression of one of the most awesome edifices ever constructed. And in honour of whom? A poor, ignorant, feisty fisherman from Galilee. Tomorrow we will honour the Holy Apostle Peter along […]
The Fate Of The World
Sacred Heart Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus began the day when, speaking to His disciples He said: “Come to me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take up my yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am meek and humble of Heart, and you […]
The Incarnation Continued
Corpus Christi Today we solemnise the feast of the Most Blessed Sacrament, the feast of Corpus Christi, the feast of God – Fête-Dieu, as the French so touchingly style it. The day on which we commemorate how God determined to pay us a visit in order to save us from sin and hell, and then […]
