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‘Come and have breakfast’: Unravelling the mystery of food in Jesus’ life
April 01, 2024
I wrote in this column a couple of years ago that “there is something odd about Christ’s risen body”, which I suppose is fairly obvious. But I meant something more than the fact that it was risen, whereas most dead bodies stay dead. I was writing then about the fact that Christ’s body is simultaneously
Pontius Pilate and Judas Iscariot: should we have more sympathy for the villains of Christ’s Passion?
March 29, 2024
The lengthiest readings of the liturgical year occur at the Liturgy of the Passion on Good Friday, when we hear the longest of Isaiah’s “servant songs” (Isaiah 52:13 to 53:12) and – after a modest chunk of Hebrews 4 and 5 – two full chapters of St John’s Gospel, taking us from Jesus setting forth
Curing the sick and casting out demons: Christ’s earthly ministry was to heal and to cleanse
February 13, 2024
The last two “ordinary” Sundays before Lent begins tomorrow, 14 February on Ash Wednesday, saw us reading from the first chapter of St Mark’s Gospel. Here we see the beginning of Christ’s ministry of preaching, curing the sick and casting out demons, and there are some important features that we should note from these two
There came from the East: Learning of the wisdom of the Magi from Matthew’s account
January 06, 2024
No nativity play would be complete without the three kings, central characters in the tale of Christ’s birth. Almost as well known as the characters themselves is the fact that “the three kings” is a misnomer: there might have been three of them, but then again there might have been any number, because Matthew’s Gospel
‘On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me’…St John, Apostle of the Word Made Flesh
December 26, 2023
O God, who through the blessed Apostle John have unlocked for us the secrets of your Word, grant, we pray, that we may grasp with proper understanding what he has so marvellously brought to our ears. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy
The virgin birth of Christ is not necessary, but it is appropriate
December 23, 2023
A virgin did conceive. I will not be the first person to tell you this, but the prophet Isaiah did not unequivocally predict the birth of a Messiah by parthenogenesis. St Matthew’s account of the annunciation to Joseph of the birth of a son to Mary, his betrothed, concludes that “All this took place to fulfill
The Lord of the World
November 04, 2023
Paul’s letters to the Thessalonians offer hope of the Day of the Lord. November is, for Christians, the last month of the year, since with December comes Advent and the liturgical year begins again. Thus our minds turn once again to the end of all things, as well as our own individual ends, brought to
Judgement is Coming
October 01, 2023
The parables in St Matthew’s Gospel are eschatological in their message. As the liturgical year draws to a close, our attention is always turned towards the judgement that is coming. This is especially the case in the present year in which we are reading St Matthew, and it is a notable feature of the first
How the Gospel presents the choice offered to us by Christ’s crucifixion
August 30, 2023
September sees the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, and as the newly elected Prior (much to my astonishment) and new Parish Priest of Holy Cross, Leicester, I feel it only right that I should say something about what has always been a favourite feast of mine. The Gospel is taken from John 3,
The Transfiguration: an image of Christ’s revelation to the world
August 05, 2023
A damaged icon of the Transfiguration laid out near the wreckage of Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa after a missile strike on July 23, 2023. Getty Images The first Sunday in August this year is the Feast of the Transfiguration, and so our run of Ordinary Time Sundays is interrupted, though the Gospel is still taken
The Glory of the Son of Man: Transfiguration is an image of Christ’s revelation to the world
August 02, 2023
The first Sunday in August is the Feast of the Transfiguration, and so our run of Ordinary Time Sun- days is interrupted, though the  Gospel is still taken from Matthew. Immediately before the passage we will read, Jesus tells his disciples “Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death
Romans: Through baptism we will be resurrected with Christ into a new life
July 12, 2023
The month of July finds us firmly in Ordinary Time, and our Gospel readings are from Matthew. Our second readings, however, are from the Letter to the Romans, and they encourage us to continue thinking about the big theological issues I have covered in the last couple of months: the meaning of the Resurrection, Ascension
On Biblical Translations in the Lectionary
September 13, 2021
Mass-goers will struggle with the new lectionary, and it will be for preachers to help them in this struggle.
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