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Escaping the darkness by accepting ‘the beauty of the light’

April 14, 2024

“Their joy was so great that they still could not believe it” (Luke 24:41) In Sunday’s Gospel, the Risen Jesus’s disciples do not believe in him for a strange reason: their joy is too great! It seems odd, but sometimes we can lack faith for this reason: we think it is all too good to

Confronting death and resurrection: emerging Dantesque poet is ‘a light in the darkness’ of ‘secular, locked-down’ modernity

April 02, 2024

The emergence of the London-based poet Ned Denny has been a light in the darkness of the last four years, during which worldwide circumstances have changed to alarming effect. In 2019, his Unearthly Toys won the Seamus Heaney Prize for a first collection. He followed it with a version of Dante’s Commedia, recasting the original

How prayer helps us ‘gain a new horizon’ and better understanding of Easter mystery

April 01, 2024

As we see the Lord Jesus in prayer, there are certain practical pointers we can learn from him, even while there is a mystery at play. In his prayer, the Lord’s divine and human nature are expressed and we can learn from him in both these ways. As we seek to pray, we have no

The Transfiguration of Jesus calls us to be obedient like Abraham

February 25, 2024

“Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain” (Mark 9:2). Sunday’s Gospel of Jesus’s Transfiguration is paired with the narrative of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of his son Isaac in the first reading, prompting the question: What is the link? Jesus says to His disciples: “If any man would

Celebrating the truth of Christianity at Easter

March 30, 2022

This is our Easter issue, the time when we celebrate the central truth of the Christian faith, that Christ died and rose from the dead. It is summed up in St Paul’s letter to the Corinthians where he says: “What I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for

Closed hearts are unable to rejoice in the Resurrection, says Pope

April 19, 2017

Christianity is about God's search for us, Francis said at his general audience

Church leaders: Restoration of Jesus’s tomb signals new cooperation

March 22, 2017

The Edicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre underwent a major renovation after it was deemed unsafe

Liberal churches in decline while orthodox ones grow, says study of Protestants in Canada

December 14, 2016

Researchers looked at 22 Protestant churches in Canada