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We are about to enter Holy Week, the most sacred time in the liturgical year. Perhaps we’ve failed in much of what we hoped for during Lent? Now is the time to begin again! For Christians, all we celebrate during this time is not a past event, but a “making......
St. John's gospel, Chapter 5, gives us a powerful scene of healing and new life. The sick man at the Pool of Bethesda, where angels “disturbed the water” to bring healing, is touched by Jesus after years of sickness. Human suffering will never leave us, but Jesus is very clear......
This Sunday is Laetare Sunday, or “Rejoice Sunday,” a day we anticipate something of the joy of Easter. The Rose vestments which should be worn (if your parish doesn’t have them, perhaps you could offer to buy some!) are meant to symbolise that joy. The reality is that Christian joy,......
We ask all our supporters to keep the Pope’s visit to Iraq over the next days in your prayers. Humility, which is a virtue, so it must be worked at, is not about low self-regard or false loneliness. It is a healthy sense of reality especially, like all the great......
It’s a horrible feeling to be lost, and if you have a bad sense of direction it’s even worse! Scripture constantly reminds us to choose the right path, the one that leads to life. In admitting we are lost, we have the hope of being found, and finding our true......