Let us begin with the First Reading. What an immense gift - the reassurance and consolation it proclaims: God is not like us! In God we find none of our characteristics as fallen women and men: "My thoughts are not your thoughts. My ways are...
Here at the Grotto, we gather at the feet of Mary, our Blessed Mother. We come to her with our troubles and our joys. We salute her - 'Hail Mary!' - as the one who is 'full of grace', who carried within her the Incarnate Word of God,...
O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord. These words immediately remind us of the favourite carol In the first verse, we are summoned to Bethlehem to come and adore the King of Angels. When we...
Among the most persecuted people in the world today are the followers of Jesus Christ, Christians. This persecution happens in many places and takes many different forms: personal mockery, social exclusion, violence. But it is true. Maybe this...
There is something very poignant about Mgr Philip's Induction falling on the Feast of St Matthew. For anyone who has lived in Rome, Matthew is a saint upon whom one has reflected more than many. Very early on, one discovers Caravaggio's...