From a Sermon by Saint Augustine The Church observes the birth of John as in some way sacred; and you will not find any other of the great men of old whose birth we celebrate officially. We celebrate John’s, as we celebrate Christ’s. This point cannot be passed over in...
From A treatise on Christian Perfection by St Gregory of Nyssa The life of the Christian has three distinguishing aspects: deeds, words and thought. Thought comes first, then words, since our words express openly the interior conclusions of the mind. Finally, after thoughts and words, comes action, for our deeds...
Bishop Nolan writes: The Vatican has published a collection of talks and writings by Pope Francis on the theme of life after the pandemic. The book will be available on Amazon
From a treatise on Christian Perfection by St Gregory of Nyssa. More than anyone, St Paul understood who Christ is and those requirements needed by the person named after him. Paul spoke of what he himself had accomplished and accurately imitated him in a manner to show the Lord expressed in...
From a treatise on the Trinity by St Faustinus Our Saviour received a bodily anointing and so became a true king and a true priest. Both king and priest he was of his very self; a saviour could be nothing less. Hear in his own words how he himself became...
Readings: Jeremiah 20:10-13; Psalm 68(69):8-10,14,17,33-35; Romans 5:12-15; Matthew 10:26-33 Jesus paints two very different pictures of God the Father in today’s Gospel, almost à la Jekyll and Hyde. First, he is the One we must fear because, unlike human beings, he can destroy both body and soul in hell. Then,...
A sermon of St Laurence Justinian As Mary pondered all she had learned from reading and from what she had heard and seen, how greatly did she increase in faith, advance in merit and become enlightened with wisdom! More and more she was consumed with burning love. Drawing life and...
To All Parishioners of St. Mary’s, Largs, and of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour’s, Millport. Dear Sisters, Brothers and Friends God’s peace be with you! I pray that you will be feeling a little more hopeful as we all begin to emerge with small steps from the lockdown. Prudence suggests,...
From St Cyprian’s treatise on the Lord’s Prayer Christ has clearly added a law here, binding us to a definite condition, that we should ask for our debts to be forgiven us only as much as we ourselves forgive our debtors, knowing that we cannot obtain what we seek in...
