After the worst possible thing: the best possible thing. No: better even than that. Far, far better. Still each year when we keep this Vigil, the newness of it, the magnitude of it, catches us as if in the throat. The explosion of new life. No, better than just…
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…
Today the Fourth Sunday in lent is named from the first words of the Introit; also called Golden Rose Sunday (Mary Queen of Scots was given one by the Pope), Mediana Sunday, Mothering Sunday ...
In the Beatitudes we heard last week, Jesus spells out the standard of holiness expected of those whose lives are conformed to his life. This is very great: far beyond what we are capable of achieving on our own. In the...
