Our God, the God of Moses, the God we see in Jesus, liberates the poor, seeks justice for those on the margins - for widows and orphans...

Our opening prayer talks about spiritual sight. Our first reading and our gospel share a theme of the beloved son. How does this relate...

As we always find with Mark’s gospel, today’s reading is chockers with allusions. When we celebrated the Baptism of the Lord, I looked at...

This is the last Sunday before we begin Lent. As you know, this Wednesday coming is Ash Wednesday. So, this is also the final Sunday of...

The last few Sundays we have been looking at different aspects of the Mass. First, we looked at how our community is called and formed by...

The last few weeks we have been looking at different aspects of the Mass. We have been going through our ritual looking at different...

Last week I mentioned that I was going to use the next few Sundays to look at some aspects of the Mass. We began by looking at the fact...

One of my formators at the seminary would always use his retreats or talks to focus on the prayers and rituals that we do all the time.

This gospel is a goldmine of scriptural references and connections. I highly recommend reading it again this week, but when you do read...

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. This is the feast of the revelation of God’s mystery to the nations. How this works in...

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family. It is quite fitting that it comes so close to Christmas when we celebrate in a special...

As we have said throughout Advent, we remember Christ’s first coming in order to prepare for his second coming, when the mystery of the...

Today’s first reading has a lot to tell us about prayer. One of my scripture teachers at the seminary thought our first reading is one of...

Today, once more, we focus on the figure of St John the Baptist. This time from the gospel of John. This gospel labels John the Baptist...

Earlier this year, during the first lockdown period around Easter, I had to go into the city once a week to collect mail from the GPO...