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Lent 2024
February 15, 2024
Candlemas was only just a couple of weeks ago; an early Easter this year means that Lent is here already. If I were to suggest Miserere Mei, Deus (the Gradual) to accompany the start of the Lenten season, no doubt for some readers Gregorio Allegri, the Catholic priest and Italian composer of the Roman School, would spring
February 14, 2024
ROME – Pope Francis told Catholics to carve out a silent space for God amid the buzz of the digital era in which little remains private as he opened the Lenten season with a procession and Mass on Ash Wednesday. In his homily, the Pope focused on the emphasis that the day’s scripture readings place
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
February 12, 2024
A reflection from Pope St Leo the Great – Sermon 46: The right practise of abstinence is needful not only to the mortification of the flesh but also to the purification of the mind; we desire your observance to be so complete that, as you cut down the pleasures that belong to the lusts of
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