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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Published on August 13, 2022
One of the characteristics of any sport is the camaraderie y mutual support that exists between the team. As soon as a fracas, or a brawl flares up you will […]

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Published on August 6, 2022
In his book Unfinished Business Halford Luccock, an American Methodist minister, professor at Yale Divinity School New Haven Connecticut, describes a novel about: The man who lost himself. In one […]

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Published on July 23, 2022
The year is 387, the place is a little town on the Italian coast, here we find a mother, speaking to her two adult sons.  She is saying goodbye, because […]

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Published on July 16, 2022
This little story in the gospel today has a way of getting into our hearts. Many people would see this as being very unfair to Martha; after all she was […]

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Published on July 9, 2022
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France’s highest literary awards. He is best remembered for his […]

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Published on July 2, 2022
In 1980 a national magazine carried an unusual story. A man returned to his car, which was parked outside a large shopping centre. Lying on the front seat was a […]

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Published on June 25, 2022
‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is one of the author’s more popular works, along with ‘The Three Musakteers”. The story […]

19th. June Feast of Corpus Christi

Published on June 18, 2022
Shortly after my ordination to the priesthood, almost 40 years ago, I was on a visit to the Discalced Carmelites in Avila, one of the cloistered nuns asked me: ‘Father […]

Feast of the Blessed Trinity

Published on June 11, 2022
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 […]

Pentecost – The coming of the Holy Spirit

Published on June 4, 2022
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 […]