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 […]

Martin Luther King was an African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assasination in […]

One of the greatest dramas written by Shakespeare was Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. It tells us the story of a young man who is struggling with his life, with the […]

Many of us may know the story of Ulyses. He was the Greek warrior who went to the Trojan War,  and began the long journey home.  He was very anxious […]

There are only two parts in the four gospels where we have a record of God speaking, one is at the Baptism of Our Lord and the other is the […]