Today’s Collect: Cold realities and God’s reassuring presence
August 2, 2020
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The Collect for the 18th Ordinary Sunday was not in any previous edition of the Missale Romanum. The ancient Veronese
The feeding of the multitude teaches us to bring our own deepest hungers to the Lord
July 31, 2020
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Eighteenth Sunday of the Year Isaiah 55: 1-3; Romans 8: 35 & 37-39; Matthew 14: 13-21 “When evening came, the disciples went
When we stop believing in the Devil, he has already won
July 26, 2020
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On the 17th Ordinary Sunday the Collect for Holy Mass once again presents us with military imagery. At this time
Wisdom is a gift from God
July 24, 2020
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Seventeenth Sunday of the Year 1 Kings 3: 5 & 7-12; Romans 8: 28-30; Matthew 13: 44-52 The Collect for
Edel Quinn’s life shows that real success often comes from failure
July 24, 2020
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Edel Quinn’s life is a reminder that fruitfulness and authentic success often emerge from failure, from giving up one’s hopes
In Pascendi Dominici Gregis, St Pius X defended both faith and reason
July 24, 2020
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In one of her letters, the American novelist Flannery O’Connor relates how, at a dinner party, one of the guests
Blessed Hildegard Burjan: A mother and MP who helped the poor
July 24, 2020
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The first half of the 20th century produced incredible amounts of bloodshed, warfare and social unrest: of the hapless nations
Sunday’s Collect: When life’s reckoning arrives, where will you find yourself?
July 17, 2020
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Last year I wrote about the Collect for the Novus Ordo’s 16th Ordinary Sunday. But this time I have a
Our Christian lives are to be measured by an unfettered willingness to forgive
July 17, 2020
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Sixteenth Sunday of the Year Wisdom 12: 13 & 16-19; Romans 8: 26-27; Matthew 13: 24-43 “There is no god, other
At the lowest point of my life, a novena changed everything
July 17, 2020
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‘I left university feeling I was searching for something – I didn’t even know what – so I went travelling.
What I’ve learnt from celebrating Mass alone during lockdown
July 17, 2020
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I suspect that the clergy had a fundamentally different experience of the Covid lockdown from the laity. We may speak
Timelessness and strange traditions: What I love about cricket
July 17, 2020
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Last year we finally left the Big Smoke and settled in rural Kent, bringing to an end my many years