On this National Day of Prayer for Those who have Suffered Abuse, the faithful are invited to join their prayers with those of the Catholic Church throughout Scotland for people in our families and communities who carry within themselves the deep and traumatic wounds of abuse in any way inflicted...

What’s not to love about Simon Peter of Bethsaida and then of Capernaum? He is a loveable rogue, a rough diamond and a salt of the earth kind of man. He is impulsive and brusque in his manner, yet soft as putty in the hands of Jesus. For all the...

We saw last Sunday how the power of Jesus’ preaching in the synagogue of Capernaum discombobulated those who heard him. It claimed an absolute authority over them. It even chased an unclean spirit out of one of their number. Today, the scene changes from a public one, a synagogue, to...

  I received the email below from Maura Burns at the Drumalis Centre. It offers more options for Lenten exercises for those who wish. Fr. Peter I am writing to you from Drumalis Retreat and Conference Centre, Larne, Co Antrim, a retreat and conference centre owned and run by the...

Call to Prayer: Sunday 7th February 2021 Prayer @ 7pm At this time, we are those who wait. In common with every member of our community and our nation, we are those who wait for the renewal of life within the families and communities of which we are a part....

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/02/the-challenge-of-eucharistic-coherence https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/02/passionate-men The Gnostic heresy’s political successors