What is holiness?  What is a Saint?  Why should I try to be a Saint? These are just a few of the questions posed to us by today’s Feast of…

The writer George Elliot once stated that: “Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.” I think it is fair to say that we may not…

There is probably nothing that a person can do that can so quickly bring to the surface all of one’s most deeply rooted insecurities and self-doubts as can watching a…

There is something about the kind of prophecy being offered in the first reading this weekend that always seems just a little farfetched, even strained.  But perhaps it doesn’t really…

There is a wealth of meaning carried by the imagery used in today’s First Reading and Gospel.  The image of the Kingdom of God as a meal.  The power of…

The First Reading from the Old Testament book of the prophet Isaiah and the Gospel reading present us with examples of one of the commonest images, in all of Scripture,…

Throughout the Gospel there is one type of person that invariably seems to provoke Christ’s anger, that never seems to merit a good word from Christ, only his scorn and…

The Gospel reading for this weekend can be a puzzling one.  It was for the people of Christ’s own time as well. They had for centuries put their faith in…

The Gospel this weekend addresses the issue of the conflict that can arise from time to time because of the interdependence of his people. Christ is pictured as discussing just…

If you were looking through the Scriptures to find a couple of passages that make Christianity sound like a dangerous business, you couldn’t do much better than to settle on…