Be Radical: Reflection on the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
There are two themes that run through this Sunday’s Readings. First, the prioritising of the spiritual and eternal things over the physical
Weeds Among the Wheat: Reflection on the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
This Sunday’s First Reading and Gospel Reading serve as two very poignant bookends in our Liturgy of the Word. In the First Reading, we have
A Hope for Better Soil: Reflection on the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
This week, we are going to come at the Readings backwards. We will begin with the end in mind, as St Thomas Aquinas used to say. In this Sun
Spiritual or Physical: Reflection on the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
We’re back this week and the Liturgy of the Word opens with a reading from the prophet Zechariah. Zechariah tells us that our King will come
A Kingdom of Priests: Reflection on the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time
We are back in the book of Exodus this Sunday, chapter nineteen, and the Israelites have left Egypt and are camped in the wilderness of Sina
13th June: Saint Antony of Padua
In 1221, St Francis held a general chapter (Franciscan Council) at Assisi. When the others dispersed, there lingered behind, unknown and neg