Jun 2, 2021 | Liturgy, Prayer, The Spiritual Life
“Christian prayer is primarily the prayer of the entire community of mankind joined to Christ Himself.” – Pope St Paul VI I have written previously about my attempts at praying the Liturgy of the Hours, also known as the Divine Office. Those...
Apr 2, 2021 | Church, Liturgy, Prayer
A Meditation On The Crucifixion of Jesus by Ignatius Cardinal Kung “My dear brothers and sisters in Christ: Our Lord Jesus is on the Cross. His whole body is covered with wounds, His hands and feet are nailed to the Cross; His head is crowned with...
Apr 1, 2021 | Church, Liturgy, The Spiritual Life
“My soul is sorrowful to the point of death.Wait here and keep awake with Me.” – Matthew 26:38 Lent has concluded and we have now entered into Holy Week. On this Maundy Thursday, we consider the institution of the Eucharist; and we pause and keep...
Mar 29, 2021 | Church, Liturgy
It is the strangest of weeks. A week like no other in the liturgical year. It begins on such a high with the triumphant entry of Christ into Jerusalem, annointed with nard by Mary of Bethany to signify His role as the Messiah, and met with such jubilation by the...
Jan 3, 2021 | Church, Liturgy
‘Epiphany’ means ‘revelation’ or ‘sudden realisation’. In terms of the feast commemorating the adoration of the Magi (or ‘Wise Men’) before the Christ Child, it refers to the revelation of Christ to the Gentiles, personified here in the persons of the three Wise...
Jun 23, 2020 | Church, Events, General, Liturgy, The Spiritual Life, World
“O God, You are my God, for You I long; my heart thirsts for You my body pines for You like a parched land ..” – Psalm 63 Finally across the Dioceses of Scotland, the moment we have all been waiting for has arrived, and the Churches have begun to...
Apr 12, 2020 | Church, Liturgy, The Spiritual Life, World
“In this night, the Church’s voice rings out: ‘Christ, my hope, is risen!’. This is a different ‘contagion’, a message transmitted from heart to heart – for every human heart awaits this Good News. It is the contagion of hope:...
Mar 27, 2020 | Church, Events, Liturgy, Pope Francis, World
“Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?” – Pope Francis The Address of our Holy Father, Pope Francisto the Church and to the World – ‘Urbi et Orbi’ 27 March 2020 “When evening had come” (Mk 4:35). The Gospel passage we have just...
Mar 14, 2020 | Church, Editorial, Events, General, Liturgy, News, Pope Francis, World
“But what of the practice of our Catholic Faith? It may be that for a while, our practice will change in terms of location and form. The location may move from the parish Church to the ‘domestic Church’ – that is, our home. And the form may change from liturgical...
