If You Want to Go Forward, Go Back
Sunday after Ascension On this Sunday that falls between the Ascension and Pentecost, the Church’s attention is drawn to seek the face of the Saviour who has disappeared from our field of vision. Through faith we must seek His face, we must long for Him to return. Ever since the Ascension, when the angels said […]
All Power Is Given to Me
Ascension Today’s feast takes us in two directions. The first direction is upwards, beyond the heavens where Christ our Lord is henceforth enthroned as king of kings and lord of lords. He is there, in Heaven, and Heaven is not just a state, or a frame of mind, nor is it the cosmic Christ or […]
The Father Loves Us
Fifth Sunday after Easter Today’s Gospel presents us with what have to be some of the most consoling words of the entire Bible. It is where Our Blessed Lord says: The Father Himself loves you. Perhaps the apostles were imagining that God had sent His Son to, as it were, check us out, and He […]
May St Cecilia Triduum
Month of May, Month of Mary. This triduum is suffused with the sweet maternal light of the Mother of God who, in the northern hemisphere, is honoured at this time of year with beautiful processions in which all the ravishing flowers that springtime offers are brought in to honour her peerless virtue. Here in the […]
One Faith and One Will
Fourth Sunday after Easter Dearly beloved: Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration. (St James 1:17) In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. With these words […]
Just a Little While
Third Sunday after Easter In a little while you will see me again. What is this little while of which Our Blessed Lord speaks in today’s Gospel? It is the brief span of time between His ascension and the end of the world. Span which to us seems long but which in reality is exceedingly […]
Are We Ready?
Good Shepherd Sunday A few weeks ago we referred to the parable of the Good Shepherd to consider how astounding it is that the Lord would die for us. We also noted that some of the Jews thought He was mad. That a man who would die for his sheep seems indeed to denote a […]
Utterly Despicable
Low Sunday This Sunday in albis deponendis, meaning the day on which the neophytes deposed their white garments, is rich with many mysteries: the octave of Easter and therefore the omnipresence of the resurrection theme, the conferral of the power to forgive sins as the first fruit of the redemption, the events of the eighth […]
A First Ordination
The community of Notre Dame Priory was blessed with the ordination of its first priest, Fr Bede Mary Cannavo, at St Canice Church, Sandy Bay, Tasmania on Easter Wednesday 3 April. The following day Fr Bede offered his first Mass at St Patrick’s Church, Colebrook. Please give thanks with us to Almighty God for the […]
