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Pastor Iuventus

Pastor Iuventus
April 27, 2017
The romance of a cloistered Easter As the Easter Octave comes to an end, it is with a kind of reflexive surprise that I realise that this is actually what Christianity is supposed to be like all the time. I am supposed to be suffused with the joy of the Resurrection each day because it
Pastor Iuventus
April 20, 2017
How not to understand the Resurrection On Easter Sunday morning I go to the tomb in the company of faith-filled women who have followed Jesus with the greatest devotion throughout these days of his suffering and death. I am once again privileged to celebrate the Triduum and Easter Sunday with the Benedictine nuns of the
Pastor Iuventus
April 13, 2017
The pang of not being a father I don’t know what it is about long-haul flights – maybe the cramped conditions the subliminal knowledge that you are whizzing through the atmosphere at 600 mph in a tin tube – but I find my attention span is shortened. I can’t even sit through the on-board films. On
Pastor Iuventus
April 06, 2017
The collapse of a confident Church It is Passiontide and autumn. I am in Australia, “the great southern land of the Holy Spirit”, as Benedict XVI described it when he came here for World Youth Day (WYD) in 2008. That was the last time I was here, and I vowed then that I would never make
Pastor Iuventus
March 30, 2017
As I first read the letters of Zélie Martin, I was grateful for modern advances in medical science. And then I realised that technological progress alone does not liberate man; it makes him more risk-averse when it comes to death and dying. I don’t know what the rate of infant mortality was in 19th-century France,
Pastor Iuventus
March 23, 2017
I have been reading the letters of St Zélie Martin, mother of the Little Flower. Zélie kept up a formidable correspondence with her sister, who was a Visitation nun in Le Mans, with her brother and sister-in-law in Lisieux, with her daughters Pauline and Marie when they went away to school, and with her husband
Pastor Iuventus
March 16, 2017
Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi. “He will conceal you with his pinions and under his wings you will refuge” is the full text. I’ve heard the chanting of this Latin responsory like a Lenten earworm ever since I first heard it sung, which was when I spent my first proper monastic retreat at the Benedictine monastery
Pastor Iuventus
March 09, 2017
The beginning of Lent is a bit like contemplating a plunge into a cold swimming pool. If one would achieve the end, the only way to minimise the pain is to dive right in. Standing on the side, anxious about the shock of the cold, imagining that it is better postponed or avoided, is foolish.
Pastor Iuventus
March 02, 2017
My first visit to Liverpool afforded me enough time to visit the two cathedrals. I liked “Paddy’s Wigwam” much more than I expected to. I can imagine that on a day with the sun streaming through the coloured windows, it would be particularly beautiful. The Anglican Cathedral is a more traditional design and a magnificent
Pastor Iuventus
February 23, 2017
On Valentine’s Day I travelled back from Lisieux and Alençon feeling a confidence in the intercession of the various members of the Martin family, but also a deep sadness, for it is impossible to ignore the evidence that the Church in France is in terminal decline. While there I read an article in a French
Pastor Iuventus
February 16, 2017
On a bleak February weekend, I make a return visit to Lisieux and Alençon in company with my friend Theresa, who, living as she does in America, has never managed hitherto to visit the shrine of her patron. After spending five days together running a “Grief to Grace” retreat in London for those suffering from
Pastor Iuventus
February 09, 2017
Magister adest et vocat te (“The Master is here and he is calling you”) is the simple quotation in gold letters about the threshold of the seminary chapel. Because the feast day of its patron, St John the Beloved Disciple, falls within its Christmas holidays, the seminary at Wonersh, near Guildford, keeps the feast at
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