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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Published on July 24, 2021
Todays gospel is aobut Jesus’s little helper.  He is carrying a bag on his back and there he has five loafs of bread and two fishes. Maybe we wants to […]

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Published on July 17, 2021
There is a beautiful story of human kindness and compassion of two famous people who know what is important for them. It’s about 2 of the 3 tenors, Pavarotti, Placido […]

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Published on July 10, 2021
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, playwright, and social reformer who was born in Kolkata in India in 1861. He won the Nobel  prize for literature in 1993.  One […]

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Published on July 3, 2021
A few years ago, Julio Iglesias sang a beautiful song, a very sad song, it was called: ‘me olvide de vivir’ – I forgot how to live’.  It talks about […]

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Published on June 26, 2021
Sometimes we hear a sad song,  or we read a sad book,  or we see a film with a sad ending;  or sometimes we are just sad in our own […]

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Published on June 19, 2021
John Newton was the son of an English sea captain. When John was ten, his mother died, and he went to sea with his father. At 17, however, he rebelled […]

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Published on June 12, 2021
Many years ago, there were two famous painters in Rome.  One of them was Raphael and the other was Michelangelo.  They were rivals.  One day Raphael was painting beautiful figures […]

Corpus Christi

Published on June 5, 2021
Sorrento is a beautiful town on the Amalfi Coast.  Many years ago I celebrated mass there on a Sunday morning.  After the mass I met a lady, and we had […]

Trinity Sunday

Published on May 29, 2021
Saint Augustine, one of the greatest intellectual saints spent many years trying to understand the mystery of God. One day he was walking along the beach he saw a little […]

The Coming of the Holy Spirit – Pentecost.

Published on May 22, 2021
Many years ago I heard a story on the radio, which I have never forgotton. It was about an auctioneer,  and he was selling the contents of a house.  He […]