We are commanded to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. In other words, we are to love the Lord as the Lord Himself loves. But who, bar a very few exceptional souls, does that, can do that? Yet, to the degree we don’t do it,...

This feast is a feast of immense Christian hope! It unites our present, and our past, with our future. And yet, that future is somehow already present because the saints see us, they love and pray for us, they encourage us to keep going. If we long to be with...

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Eucharistic Awakenings Carlo’s Parents were not practising, but had a basic faith; they had Carlo baptized. Many fathers of the Church speak of the “natural desire for God” in the human being, and even to see the face of God. As we know, it gets suffocated by so many things...

Creation is not just happenstance or coincidence. It is the work of the Creator. St. James tells us in the second reading today that: “It is all that is good, everything that is perfect, which is given us from above; it comes down from the Father of all light; with...

So, we have just heard the final instalment of the long chapter 6 of St. John’s Gospel on the Bread of Life. The Church has spread the chapter over five Sundays to help us “chew” on it and to savour its deep, rich and often complex tastes. As we have...

It’s a curious fact of life that the food we eat to stay alive is itself all dead. Yet, no matter how well we eat, or take medication, to stay alive, we know that death will come. For some, mortality simply means that we will die one day; it’s a...

Maria Righetti lived for almost 90 years, but that quantity of time was easily matched, if not surpassed, by the quality of life she chose to live. The picture we get of her from the family eulogy is of a woman with a diligent and determined strength of character and...