The Pilgrim’s Progress Last week I found in my room a box I had not opened since I moved into OLSG, in it was a book given to me by a very good friend of mine when I was in seminary. He is married now with his first child. He would always come to me…
Keeping a good Lent Lent arrives, at long last, this week. This makes me sound like I have been longing for Lent. That is not quite the case, but it does seem to have taken its time arriving this year. The lightness of the mornings and the evenings remind us that the etymology of the…
Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful This week’s Gospel reading from Luke (6:27-38) continues from last week (6:17,20-26) with ‘The Sermon on the Plain’. Matthew also recounts similar teachings in ‘The Sermon on the Mount’ (Mathew 5:3-12). We all live by rules and laws which are important, and without them the world would…
St Francis ‘Door of Decision’ is for us too. Last week I went to Assisi and Siena. It was my first time in these Holy places. The reason I call these places Holy is because very Holy people lived there. St Catherine, St Francis, St Clare, and now, Blessed Carlo Acutis. Perhaps when we think…
