The Call to Continuing Conversion Last Saturday I had the privilege to attend Westminster Cathedral with our eight candidates who are preparing to receive the Sacraments at the Easter Vigil. The service was to celebrate the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion of Candidates. The candidates are adults who have discerned a desire…
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…
