03 May, 2019. Sts Philip and James, Apostles
Seeing Saint James chairing the first church Council in Jerusalem surprises many people, who think mainly of Peter as leading the church after Christ…
02 May, 2019. Thursday, 2nd Week of Easter
“We must obey God rather than any human authority.” How can we distinguish fortitude from stubbornness, courage from love of confrontation? Is there any way to be sure that our convictions are from God…
01 May, 2019. Wednesday, 2nd Week of Easter
Our Lord wants all people to come out into the light that he sheds. People who live by the truth should come out into the light, and live the values he taught us…
Tuesday of Week 2 of Easter
Even though most of us like the light, the gospel notes a sense in which people seem to prefer darkness to light.
St Catherine of Siena, Patron of Europe
Catherine’s advice: “Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.”
Presider’s Page for 28 April (Second Sunday of Easter)
Even though Easter Week is now behind us, today’s liturgy still overflows with the joy of Jesus’ resurrection. We continue to celebrate that great event for the next six weeks, until Pentecost Sunday on the 20th of May, the fiftieth and final day of Easter.
28 April 2019. 2nd Sunday of Easter
Sharing in the Eucharist is a statement of loyalty, both of personal and shared faith…
Easter Saturday
His resurrection rolled away more boulders than the one blocking his tomb; it also flung wide the doors to the future…
Easter Friday
The apostles went back to their roots, to resume their work as fishermen. But their lives had been transformed…
Easter Thursday
God’s plans are enmeshed in human existence, and are being carried out across the sweep of history…
Easter Wednesday
Emmaus suggests that if we travel life’s journey with others, sharing our faith and our fears, Christ will be with us..
Easter Tuesday
It is notable how the Easter stories convey the gradual recognition of Jesus, after his resurrection…
Easter Monday
The act of divine power that raised Jesus from the dead was already predicted in an inspired psalm of David, a thousand years before…
Presider’s Page for 21 April (Easter Sunday)
This Easter morning we celebrate the central mystery of our faith, the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. He suffered on the cross and died for us, but now he is risen! Filled with the spirit of Easter joy, we proclaim the might and glory of God.
21 April 2019. Easter Sunday.
On Easter morning, the stone was rolled back from the mouth of the tomb. Is my heart be ike a tomb awaiting resurrection? Can I identify any “gravestone” that is holding me back
Presider’s Page for 20 April (The Easter Vigil)
We gather around the Easter candle, celebrating the Lord’s resurrection. With that light to illumine our way, we remember how God has cared for humanity from the dawn of time. The readings from both testaments remind us what happened at the highpoints of our history.
Holy Saturday
I will bring you to the heights of heaven. With my own right hand I will raise you up, and I will show you the eternal Father…
Good Friday
Consummated, completed, achieved to the last degree, engraved forever on the memory of mankind…
Presider’s Page for 18 April (Holy Thursday)
The liturgy that begins this Thursday evening continues until we reach Easter. We are at the start of a three-day celebration of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. We journey from the Last Supper to Gethsemane tonight, from there to Calvary tomorrow, and from the tomb to resurrection and new life at the Vigil of Easter Sunday.
Holy Thursday
What exactly had Jesus in mind through the symbolism of the broken bread and the shared wine?