Attempts to make sense of life are universal.  The poet T. S. Elliot expressed the wish to have carved on his gravestone about life: “I’ve had the experience, but I’ve…

To be fair, it’s not an easy thing to put together an authentically spiritual observance of the Advent Christmas Season in our culture. Over the next month there will be…

This weekend we mark the closing of the Liturgical Year. So it is that this weekend the liturgy attempts to present us with an image that somehow sort of sums…

This is a transitional time in the Church year, these last few weeks of the liturgical calendar.   It’s as though everything there is to say has already been said…

The poor widow in today’s Gospel reading could hardly have ever dreamed that her trip to the Temple that day would be remembered by Christians for centuries. This brief episode…

On Monday we will celebrate the Feast of All Saints and on Tuesday, The Feast of All Souls – November being a month of remembrance for those who have died…

The miracle stories in Mark’s Gospel are good reading. They are colourful, dramatic, full of lots of human detail. But at the same time, they are very carefully structured stories….

This Gospel reading is a clear example of our universal call to service and ministry within the Church. Certainly, there are hierarchical and sacramental functions and ministries, but these exist…

The Scripture readings this weekend can lead to some very sobering reflection. In St Paul’s words from the second reading, “Nothing is concealed from Him, all lies bare and exposed…

St Mark’s Gospel is a very carefully constructed piece of work, constructed to make a point, to teach coherently the nature of God and the nature of those God claims…