Jesu, food and feeder of us! This Sunday’s great festival of Corpus Christi is an annual reminder of the unspeakable gift of Holy Communion. This ’angels’ bread made pilgrims’ feeding’ appears upon the altars of the Church and is given to the faithful as food for the journey home towards heaven. How loudly and truly…
June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Dear brothers and sisters, to approach the subject of the Holy Trinity is not easy be-cause we tend to view the Trinity as a concept rather than God, an experience that God has within himself, and with us. Let me try to explain in human…
Come, Holy Spirit Jesus said he would send The Helper, The Advocate. The Holy Spirit is a powerful force who is always with us. The Spirit gives us the strength and power to do things that we might find impossible. One of my brothers in formation once said something to me that I will never…
Et iterum venturus est cum gloria Those of us who know our Latin will recognise the phrase above as being from the Nicene Creed: ‘And He will come again in glory’. These days after Ascension and leading up to Pentecost mark the novena of all novenas. With the Apostles we wait for the promised gift…
Our Common Home Last weekend, as you probably know, there were three Confirmation Masses in the parish. It is customary to chose a Confirmation Saint whose name is used in Confirmation. The point being that the saint’s charism and story inspires the young people, and they can ask for his/her prayers. It was interesting to…
