The Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends,St Valentine’s Day is approaching: disappointingly, this third-century Roman saint does not appear in the modern Church calendar – 14 February is instead the Feast of St Cyril and St Methodius, equally important figures but rather less [...]
The Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends,Who do you think you are? For most of us, the answer to this question involves looking back – both into our family history, and into the past experiences which have shaped our lives – and looking forward, with [...]
The Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends,A curious question with which to begin, perhaps, but were we to give a colour to the Sundays of January, what do you suppose it might be? In the face of wind and rain and cloud and frost, the temptation [...]
The Sunday of the Word of God
Dear friends,In September 2019, Pope Francis called the universal Church to celebrate the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time each year as a special “Sunday of the Word of God”, on which we might once more open ourselves to the [...]
The Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dear friends, At every Mass, before we receive Communion, we address the Lord Jesus as the “Lamb of God”. This Sunday's Gospel reading, as once again we enter what is called “Ordinary Time” (or, more properly, the season [...]
The Solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord
Perhaps one of the greatest elements of countercultural witness which we as Christians can present at Christmas is the way in which, as the world packs away its tinsel and the supermarket shelves fill with Easter eggs(!), yet our [...]