Three men said they wanted to stay with Jesus and travel about sharing in his work, without first considering what that would involve…

The Archangel Raphael was an instrument of healing. He heals the disturbed relationship between a man and a woman. He also brings healing to sightless eyes of old Tobit…

To teach a vital life-lesson, he often used actions as well as words, to make it memorable. His disciples were arguing about a very selfish question: Which of them was the greatest…

Popular admiration meant little to Jesus, who lived to do God’s will, to complete his selfless work. So he felt compelled to go to Jerusalem, dangerous as it was….

That question is posed to us too. It is a question that puts our faithfulness to the test. We are invited to keep making our own personal response to ‘Who do you say I am?’

Herod’s example is a wake-up call against cynicism. We come to Jesus to know him more clearly, love him more dearly and follow him more nearly…

In God’s family, we are each meant to live in a spirit of give-and-take. Notice the many ways that we depend on others to do for us what we cannot do ourselves.

Jesus was completely centred on doing the will of God, so completely that it shaped all that he said and did. John’s gospel goes so far as to say that Jesus is the Word, the Word made flesh…

The Latin Church celebrates the feast of St Matthew on 21 September, 2013. and the Greek Church on November 16. His symbol is a winged man, with a pen in hand as an emblem of his writing the Gospel.

We need to nurture the seed of faith God has planted in us. Our part is to offer good soil for the seed to grow. One component of this good soil is prayer, both our own prayer and joining in the prayer of the community…

St Paul reminds us that within the church, the body of Christ, we are all interdependent. We need others and others need us. We all have something to give and much to receive…

Jesus spoke sternly to the proud and the self-righteous, but was gentle with the humble and repentant. He says that while our heavenly Father is ever loving, a forgiving spirit is also required in us.

The music of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus is not a doleful dirge. It is joyful music about God’s grace and favour to towards all who are open to receive it…

As she watched Jesus die, Mary’s heart was broken. Long before, old Simeon had linked Jesus’ suffering with that of his mother: ‘a sword will pierce your own soul too.’ When our own troubles are hard to bear, we can look to Our Lady of Sorrows as our inspiration and our help.

In their Exodus journey through the Sinai desert there was a plague of fiery serpents, from whose venemous bite many people died. Then at God’s command Moses made a bronze statue of a serpent and mounted it on a pole, as a pledge of recovery. Jesus applies this episode to himself