We celebrate today the mystery of Incarnation, full of joy: well aware, all the while, that only next week Good Friday will be upon us: the most sorrowful day in the year. Today with the whole Church we focus on who Jesus is. Next week we will be confronted by…
The joy of Elizabeth and Zechariah spread: to their whole family, then their whole village, and then the whole world. This joy continues on, even 2000 years later, and we share in it especially today. We joyfully celebrate the birthday of St. John the Baptist, because it’s inextricably…
I would like to say something about the feast we keep this Sunday, the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. We have just passed through the whole cycle of Lent and Easter, ending on a high note with Pentecost last Sunday. Now it’s ‘Green Time’, Ordinary Time, again and will…
The attention of the whole world is focussed on the current crisis. People are afraid. Normal life is at a stand still. Economically, and in other ways too, we seem to be gazing into the abyss. And in the midst of it all, the Catholic Church rejoices…