The Collect of today’s Mass asks God to give us exultant joy. We need to ask for this, because our minds so easily forget what Christ has done for us. We lose focus; our gaze drifts away from the hope of heaven, and sinks back to preoccupation with the things of…
A very useful book I always have with me on these occasion is the Catholic Truth Society Sunday Missal, People’s Edition, published with side-by-side Latin and English texts in 2011. At the head of each Sunday in this book the editors offer a little reflection or…
After Jesus had ascended into heaven, the Eleven Apostles, with some few others, with one heart and mind, joined together in continuous prayer. This is the first picture given us in the Acts of the Apostles of the early Church: the Church in seed, the Church in her first beginnings...
