Growing Pains
The process of giving birth may be natural – but it often requires our best efforts, our full co-operation. We need to remember this when...
Trust
When we have a wedding in church the whole neighbourhood seems interested. As the couple come out, people in the 263 bus are always...
A New Way of Life
The gospel today (Mt. 10.37-42) has not lost its shock value, no matter how many times we hear it. The parallel passage in Luke 14.26 is...
Held in the Hands of God
We belong to a global church. There are Catholics living in situations very different from our own. We have to remember this when we...
The Most Holy Trinity
St Paul tells the Corinthians that they are like babies who need to be fed with milk rather than solid food. That is how I feel about...
The Power of the Holy Spirit
We are all familiar with the figure of the conductor of an orchestra. The conductor, waving a baton, speeds up the music or slows it...
Ambitious for Higher Gifts
Should a Christian be ambitious? Can a Christian be ambitious? We are deeply suspicious of ambition. We link ambition with unpleasant...
The Advocate
Would you like an advocate? Today we hear Jesus promise an advocate to his followers (John 14.15-21). The word advocate today has legal...
The Way, the Truth, and the Life
Jesus says: ‘I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life’ (John 14.6). The Way To follow Jesus is to be on a journey. You cannot be a...
Vocation
On this Sunday we have the gospel of the Good Shepherd, and the Catholic Church often turns its thoughts to vocations. All of us have a...
