The Catholic Church celebrates each of the twelve Apostles with an annual liturgical Feast. Some of the Apostles indeed have to double up. Saints Simon and Jude go together in October, and Saints Phillip and James in...
You’re wondering: what relevance to the Gospel of the Transfiguration have today’s two first readings? Let me start now then by having a brief look at them. In our first reading we heard a familiar...
As it was in Noah’s day, so will it be when the Son of Man comes (Mt 24:37).
Each year on the first Sunday of Advent we hear an extract from the discourse Jesus gave, just before his Passion, about the end of time. Jesus tells...
Our daily reading of Galatians at Mass has brought us providentially today to the beginning of Chapter 5, and to a fine text for the final day of our retreat. After a week of prayer and reflection, we rejoice...
St. Paul sometimes goes in for passages of baffling obscurity, so that commentators are kept busy for millennia, and still they don’t quite get to the bottom of what he’s talking about! But St. Paul also goes in...
A great question is put before us today. Who do you say I am? Who is Jesus Christ? What is he to me? What difference does he make? And the Church gives us the Solemnity of SS. Peter and Paul, so that we may boldly celebrate and...
Our second reading today, from St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, is part of a series given by the lectionary for Sundays 9 to 14 in Year C. Because of Corpus Christi...
