Once upon a time there was a thief, we don’t know much about him, we don’t know what he stole, we do know that he was sentenced to die on […]

Today we have the privilege of hearing the greatest story ever told, the greatest of Jesus’s parables, the Parable of the prodigal Son. Gandhi tells how when he was fifteen, […]

Beginning of Mass: 2022 ‘Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.’ These words were addressed by Jesus to his contemporaries and are addressed to us in today’s liturgy. We […]

I remember seeing a movie called Mask which is based on a true story. A 16-year-old boy named Rocky Dennis had a rare disease that caused his skull and the […]

The Trojan Horse refers to a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks, during the Trojan War, to enter the city of Troy and win the war. After a […]

In 1953 Sir Edmund Percival Hiliary was a New Zealand Mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. He was part of the ninth British expedition to Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the […]

If we are to take seriously today’s readings – that’s a tall order. From my years of work as a priest, I have seen that a large part of the […]

In April of 1986 two grey-haired men greeted each other warmly in Tokyo’s International Airport. Both men had tears in their eyes. One was an American named Ponich, and the […]

Sometimes we meet someone very important, maybe a King, a Queen, the Pope, a great sportsman or sportswoman, an actor or actress; and we never forget the day, the time, […]

We have the great privilege this weekend because our second reading today is one of these great texts of the Bible and indeed of world literature. It is from the […]