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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In the world today we very often use the word special skills, like how to relate to other people, what to say, and what not to say in certain circumstances, […]

Homily: Many of you you will have heard of Maximiliano Kolbe, he was a polish catholic priest and conventual Franciscan friar, who was in the German concentration Camp os Auschwitz, […]

I want to focus my attention today on the first reading of our mass which is taken from the pivotal chapter 9 of the Acts of the Apostle. I say […]

In 1953  during the Korean War,  the communist army decided to drive thousands of people across the country in freezing cold weather.  Very many of them died along the way,  […]

Ghosts make very good stories. Shakespeare gave us the ghost of Hamlet, Oscar Wilde gave us the  Canterville ghost, and Charles Dickens gave us three ghosts in a Christmas Carol. […]

This is the day in which Christ has destroyed death and from the dead he rises victorious.  We have just celebrated the Easter Triduum behind closed doors for the second […]

There is an old gypsy song  which they sing in Andalucia in southern Spain. It goes: ‘who will lend me a ladder,  so that I can climb up to the […]