For some reason, the story of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” came to mind when I was preparing something to say for this evening. It was not so much because of Snow White herself, or the Seven Dwarfs, but because of the “wicked witch” or was it the “wicked...

CHRISTOMETER   How real is Jesus Christ to you? How real is your relationship with him? Consider these random statements I have put together and others that occur to you …   1. I think of Christ often, sometimes, now and again, rarely, never. He makes no real difference to...

There are times in the Gospels when it is clear that the disciples of Jesus have real difficulty in understanding his teaching. On one such occasion, Jesus speaks openly about what lies before him and afterwards Peter ‘took him aside and began to rebuke him’. (Mark 8: 31-32) Peter is...

Lent and Pentecost have something in common: the Holy Spirit. We think of Pentecost as the time of the coming of the Spirit with all his wonderful gifts and graces, but of Lent as all this drudgery about giving things up and pessimism about sin and penance, feeling bad and...