So, we return to green vestments! After the purple of Advent and Lent, the white of Christmas and Easter and the red of Palm Sunday and Pentecost, we pick up once more what is called “Ordinary Time.” Green is the colour of life and fertility, yet the life it symbolises...

Muslims and Jews are scandalized that Christians believe God became man. God cannot humiliate himself in this way, they contend. Indeed, among human beings as a whole there is often a negative or pessimistic attitude towards our own human flesh. So, it is an utter scandal that the Holy and...

My father was a quiet man. He never said much about himself. Being the youngest, there was also for me the slight disadvantage that he was in his sixties before I was eighteen, so conversation was not easy. I got to know him a little better in his final years,...

I love walking in the sea breeze. Brought up in Ardrossan, the breeze, or should I say the gale, was always blowing! So, it was good last week, when I was on holiday in Brighton, to spend a long time walking along the sea front. One day, there was a...