Last week we saw Jesus outlining his dream, his plan for the salvation of the world. Today in the Beatitudes we have the essence of Christ’s mission. The beatitudes are […]

On the 28th August 1963 Martin Luther King delivered a famous speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.  ‘I have a dream today. I have a […]

John Ruskin was an English author, philosopher, and art critic, who died in the year 1900; he has written many books on different topics and one of these topics was […]

Flannery O’Connor was an American writer who lived in the early 20th century. She was a catholic and being born in Georgia she lived in the Bible Belt in the […]

When we see the crib at Christmas time, and when we contemplate the shepherds, they are usually very poor, attractive, respectable people, carrying their little lambs; but history tells us […]

Some of you may have heard the ad for Barry’s tea on the radio when a young boy tells his grandad early Christmas morning “you’ll never guess what Santa brought”. […]

We often see how history has a tendency to repeat itself. Recently I was listening to a commentary about Syria and one commentator ironically said we’ve been here before with […]

We all love certainty and sometimes we have our doubts.  There are things we want to know, things we need to know but we do not know. This can be […]

Many years ago in Paris there was a boy called Paul Claudel, He was from a very good family and he was very intelligent. He was also nominally a catholic,  […]

Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch American man with a habit of avoiding useful work, lives in a village at the foot of New York’s Catskill mountains in the years before the American Revolution. […]