Sunday 29B, 17th October 2021 Be careful what you ask for – you might get it in a way you didn’t expect. We’re now hosting a group of meditators at the monastery from the World Community of Christian Meditation and the theme for the weekend is Time and Eternity – …
Sunday 28B, 10th October 2021 Later in the gospel Jesus will answer a scribe’s question as to the first of the commandments with the commandment to love God and then one’s neighbour as oneself. But he doesn’t do that here. Perhaps because it would be too much for the rich …
Sunday 27 B, 3rd October 2121 There are several celebrations in today’s readings: the celebration of marriage; the celebration of childhood and the celebration of continuity – our deep desire for regularity, and one can see how much of the scripture is written with this hope of finding an order …
Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, 29th September 2021 In an interesting article in this week’s Tablet the contribution to the European Union of the French Catholic statesman, Robert Schumann, is explored and the time seemed ripe for such a move because of the strength of the Christian Democratic movement in …
Sunday 26B, 26th September 2021 A member of the Taliban recently stated that it’s time that the cutting off of hands was brought back. ‘It is good and necessary,’ he says. So this way of thinking is very close – and one remembers pictures of our own colonial era and …
Feast of Saint Matthew, 21st September 2021 In a recent article in our ecumenical journal, One In Christ, Professor Thomas O’Loughlin makes much of the recognition earlier this year that lay members of the Church are now eligible to become ‘instituted’ as lector, acolyte and catechist – roles which were …
Sunday 25B, 19th September 2021 He comes to us hidden and salvation consists in recognising him. A quote from Simone Weil, the French philosopher and mystic and culled by me from a couple of superb short stories or articles by Dom Laurence Freeman first published in the Tablet in 2007 …
The triumph of the Holy Cross, 14th September, 2021 The fire alarms have just gone off, again. It’s 5.30am so this time it serves as an appropriate signal to get out of bed and compile this brief homily. – but this is the third time in so many weeks, and …
Sunday 24B, 12th September 2021 Isn’t it interesting that who we are depends on what other people make of us? Surely, we say to ourselves, who I am depends on me; it’s my business – something to be worked out between me and myself, or for those of a religious …
Our Lady’s Birthday, 8th September 2021 There is a love that transcends our own. There has to be because our love is so imperfect: love, that is, for ourselves, for one another, and for God. And, because our love is always less than this love, we live in hope rather …
