In the world today we very often use the word special skills, like how to relate to other people, what to say, and what not to say in certain circumstances, how to behave and how not to behave. We are emerging from a long and difficult lockdown and we probably all need a refresher course […]

Homily: Many of you you will have heard of Maximiliano Kolbe, he was a polish catholic priest and conventual Franciscan friar, who was in the German concentration Camp os Auschwitz, located in occupied Poland during world war II.  At the end of July 1941, one prisoner escaped from the camp, prompting the deputy camp commander, […]

I want to focus my attention today on the first reading of our mass which is taken from the pivotal chapter 9 of the Acts of the Apostle. I say pivotal because this is the chapter where the conversion of Saul/Paul is narrated. Paul is still a very important figure in the life of the […]

In 1953  during the Korean War,  the communist army decided to drive thousands of people across the country in freezing cold weather.  Very many of them died along the way,  it was called the Lydda death march.  The stronger ones tried to help the weaker ones. Among them was a Bishop, he was young, strong, […]

Ghosts make very good stories. Shakespeare gave us the ghost of Hamlet, Oscar Wilde gave us the  Canterville ghost, and Charles Dickens gave us three ghosts in a Christmas Carol. Ghost stories are very old and its quite possible that the apostles had heard ghost stories. When they saw Jesus, for the first time after […]

This is the day in which Christ has destroyed death and from the dead he rises victorious.  We have just celebrated the Easter Triduum behind closed doors for the second year in succession. The most sacred season of the year once again without any physical congregation. This is very hard on all of us people […]

There is an old gypsy song  which they sing in Andalucia in southern Spain. It goes: ‘who will lend me a ladder,  so that I can climb up to the cross,  and remove the nails from the hands of Jesus on the cross’. When we see Jesus suffering so much,  when se see him dying […]

Martin Luther King was an African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assasination in Memphis in 1968. He advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil obedience, inspired by his christian beliefs and the non-violent actvism of Mahatma Gandhi. It […]

One of the greatest dramas written by Shakespeare was Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. It tells us the story of a young man who is struggling with his life, with the world he lives in, with his family,  with himself and with the ghost of his father.  At one time he uses the famous line “To […]

Many of us may know the story of Ulyses. He was the Greek warrior who went to the Trojan War,  and began the long journey home.  He was very anxious to see his wife, his son, his dog and of course his homeland. The journey took twenty years; he had many setbacks and many adventures,  […]