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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 […]

The Ascension

Published on May 28, 2022
When Beethoven finished writing his 23rd. piano sonata,  he wrote the word appassionata on the cover.  Ever since then it has that name.  When we listen to it, we can […]

Sixth Sunday of Easter

Published on May 21, 2022
The story is told of several farm laborers on the Yorkshire dales, tending sheep flocks as Sunset approached. The barking of a faraway dog suddenly broke the quiet of the […]

Fifth Sunday of Easter

Published on May 14, 2022
Four-year-old Marion West shouted and jumped for joy when her mother came home from work on her lunch break. But Marion would become hysterical when her mother left again after […]

Fourth Sunday of Easter

Published on May 7, 2022
About the middle of the nineteenth century St. John Bosco (founder of the Salesians) began to work for poor and endangered youth in the Italian city of Turin. The young […]