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Pastor Iuventus

Pastor Iuventus
February 02, 2017
The recent celebration of the 75th anniversary of Radio Four’s Desert Island Discs cast me adrift on a sea of nostalgia. We would invariably listen to it on a Saturday evening after coming from high tea with my grandparents. And it suddenly strikes me with all the force of middle-age conviction that there never was
Pastor Iuventus
January 26, 2017
When it seems the world is going mad it’s time to turn to GK Chesterton. “Earnest freethinkers,” he says, “need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.” This
Pastor Iuventus
January 19, 2017
As a kind of catch-all Christmas-and-several-birthdays treat we go as a family to the Royal Ballet’s performance of The Nutcracker. It is a spellbinding piece of theatre, with production feats that dazzle as the Christmas tree, the dolls’ house and the toys all grow to giant proportions before your eyes, and the young girl Clara
Pastor Iuventus
January 12, 2017
I see that the Archbishop of Monterrey in Mexico has restored the “Last Gospel” to the celebration of all Masses in the coming year, citing it as a perfect synthesis the Apostolic Faith. It’s a brave and timely decision in a “post-truth” age. We read the Prologue to St John’s Gospel many times over the
Pastor Iuventus
January 05, 2017
I like the A3, I decide on Christmas Eve. It’s a great road to drive, a testament to our island history. Were it not for the fact that Britain used to be a great naval power, we would not have had such a good road from London to the coast. There is now not a
Pastor Iuventus
December 22, 2016
From St Bonaventure’s Life of St Francis of Assisi we get the enigmatic story of how Francis created the first crib, in the woods near Greccio, “for the kindling of devotion”. He first obtained permission from the Pope, for Francis, that most spontaneous and creative of saints, understood that you do not mess with the
Pastor Iuventus
December 15, 2016
After December 17, the focus of the Advent liturgy changes and we direct our thoughts towards the imminent birth of Jesus. One of the most beautiful ways in which this change of mood and growing sense of expectancy can be perceived and celebrated is with the so-called “O” antiphons. In these antiphons the Church calls
Pastor Iuventus
December 08, 2016
Each year the celebration of a particular liturgical season such as Advent should have the reassuring quality of something familiar and rehearsed. It is familiarity that allows one to savour something particular and different each year, thanks to the grace of the season. This year I have been forcibly struck by the way in which
Pastor Iuventus
December 02, 2016
Ad te Levavi animam meam; to you I have lifted up my soul. Thus the words of the introit for the first Sunday of the new liturgical year set the Advent scene. To lift up my soul differs essentially from preparing materially for Christmas. We used to describe prayer as a raising of the mind
Pastor Iuventus
November 24, 2016
Two pieces of music encapsulate the spirit of Advent for me. One is the plainchant Rorate Caeli and the other is Bach’s Cantata 140, Wachet auf (“Wake, O wake, for night is flying”). Its words are based on the parable of the wise and foolish virgins who hear the watchman’s cry announcing the arrival of
Pastor Iuventus
November 16, 2016
The Scriptures of the last days of the year are full of references to great upheavals in the natural world and the body politic, signs in the sun and moon, wars and revolutions. Some see these signs being fulfilled before our very eyes, but Jesus tells us it is not that simple. The signs of
Pastor Iuventus
November 10, 2016
It is one of those weekends in Walsingham when showers and gusting winds set in with a ferocity which must eventually spend itself. The tempest seems to wash the sky and earth, leaving them sharp and cleansed. I am here to pray and reflect with the leadership of two apostolates dear to my heart: Grief
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