07 May, 2019. Tuesday, 3rd Week of Easter
Even so devout a Jew as Saul of Tarsus gave his full approval to stoning to death a man he considered to be promoting heresy…
06 May, 2019. Monday, 3rd Week of Easter
We only see people and things in their true nature if we take the trouble to really look, with an open mind. The Sanhedrin looked on the face of Stephen, and it seemed…
Presider’s Page for 5 May (Third Sunday of Easter)
We’re two weeks into the Easter season now, but the Good News of the season continues to reverberate in the Liturgy. Joyfully we worship God who raised our Saviour from the dead.
05 May, 2019. 3rd Sunday of Easter
Today’s story reflects the miracle of salvation as an offer. Through his church, Christ has thrown over us his net of salvation, a net of grace…
04 May, 2019. Saturday, 2nd Week of Easter
There’s encouragement in this story of Jesus walking on the water. We do not know what God will do, to heal our Church of our present malaise…
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