When someone you love leaves you, to live elsewhere perhaps or to go to God, there is no question that that is very painful. But once you get over the pain, or manage to handle it, the memory of that person and their love is still present to you. For,...

The Gospel today zooms in on Jesus at prayer. It is like a camera shot on the television screen which has Jesus stand alone in the spotlight. But, as his prayer tells us, he is not alone. As the spotlight widens, we see him with the ties he has to...

Just over sixty years ago, good Pope John XXIII announced that there would be a Second Vatican Council. It was to renew how the Church announced her teaching to the world. Although some misunderstood the nature of that renewal, there were many wonderful fruits of genuine renewal which came, and...

The human voice is almost as expressive as the human face. Depending on its tone, pitch and strength, a voice tells us as much as the words it conveys. Someone’s voice can by itself bring comfort and reassurance or fear and upset. The voice is the instrument of our mind...

We know that Peter had a strong love for Jesus. He had wanted Jesus to be spared the Cross. He had wanted to walk with Jesus on the water. He had wanted to give his life for Jesus even if everyone else abandoned him. He had wanted Jesus to be...