Day Four: The Life of Humiliation which Jesus Led from His Birth ThoughtThe Sign which the angel gave the shepherds to help them find the newborn Savior, points to His lowliness: ‘This shall be a sign to you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in...

Day Three: The Life of Poverty which Jesus Led From His Birth ThoughtGod so ordained that, at the time when His Son was to be born on this earth, the Roman emperor should issue a decree ordering everyone to go to the place of his origin and there be registered...

Day Two: God’s Love Revealed In His Being Born An Infant ThoughtWhen the Son of God became man for our sake, He could have come on earth as an adult man from the first moment of of His human existence, as Adam did when he was created. But since the...

Day One: God’s Love Revealed In His Becoming Man  ThoughtBecause our first parent Adam had rebelled against God, he was driven out of paradise and brought on himself and all his descendants the punishment of eternal death. But the son of God, seeing man thus lost and wishing to save...

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24th October 2021 SYNOD ON SYNODALITY: WHAT IS A SYNOD? ‘Synod’ is an ancient word in the Tradition of the Church. The concept of ‘synod’ is evident from the earliest days of the Catholic Church, for example the Jerusalem ‘Council’ described in Acts 15. For the first time, Pope Francis...

Bishop Nolan has produced a video to invite all of us to participate in the Synod on Synodality. He tells us that “Pope Francis asks that we have the courage to speak out, to voice our opinions, but also that we have humility – the humility to listen…to other viewpoints,...