Vivian Boland OP, Author at Catholic Herald

Vivian Boland OP

Who is the son referred to in ‘Woman, behold your son’ (John 19.26)?

March 29, 2024

Today, Good Friday, the Passion according to John will be read during the afternoon liturgy. We read those of Matthew, Mark and Luke once every three years, on Palm Sunday, but because John’s is read every year it is the most familiar. So familiar, in fact, that what is proposed here might come as something

Finding hope in the desert: getting lost and discovering the way

February 14, 2024

The desert experience of the people of Israel was a difficult time of testing and penance, of getting lost and discovering the way, as the Lord sought to mould them into His covenant people. Yet the later prophets looked back on it as the honeymoon period in the people’s relationship with the Lord. The most

‘On the eighth day of Christmas my true love sent to me’…Fireworks followed by the dawn of New Year’s Day

January 01, 2024

It is New Year’s Day. Midnight has been marked with the usual eruption of noise. If there was silence in heaven for half an hour, there was limitless noise in the city for that same period. The sky filled with fireworks, the air with their smell, one’s ears with the thump of the explosions. In

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