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‘The Donkey’ by GK Chesterton: ‘Fools! For I also had my hour’

March 25, 2024

When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody On all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth, Of ancient crooked will; Starve, scourge, deride

The empty chair at Easter

May 01, 2021

How I started to come to terms with my father’s death on Palm Sunday – and found strength in my faith

Pope Francis on Palm Sunday: Prayers for Indonesia after cathedral attack

March 28, 2021

“Let us pray for all the victims of violence,” Pope Francis said in remarks to the faithful praying the Palm Sunday Angelus with him in St Peter’s Basilica on Palm Sunday, “especially those of this morning's attack in Indonesia, in front of the Cathedral of Makassar,” on the southwest coast of South Sulawesi.

Pope Francis on Palm Sunday: Our Lord “never stopped loving”

March 28, 2021

In his homily, Pope Francis focused on the sense of amazement Holy Week evokes, from the joy with which Our Lord is greeted on entering Jerusalem to the sorrow of his condemnation, passion, and crucifixion.