THE ROYAL WE The “majestic plural” is used by monarchs (including Popes until recent times). It does not imply that the person using it has haughty ideas about themselves. On the contrary, it signifies identification with the people whose monarch (or Pope) that person is. It doesn’t mean that the...
My dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Each year around this time, we celebrate Catholic Education Week. During this week we: celebrate the God-given talents and achievements of our young people; acknowledge the hard work and faith witness of the staff in our schools; mark the unique contribution that Catholic...
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/11/answering-the-psalmist https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/11/vows-broken https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/12/the-genius-of-wordsworth Wise as Pigeons, Harmless as Snakes Creation, According to Ratzinger (and a couple of other guys)
From the Second Vatican Council’s pastoral constitution “Gaudium et spes” on the Church in the modern world. Husband and wife, by the covenant of marriage, are no longer two, but one flesh. By their intimate union of persons and of actions they give mutual help and service to each other,...
One talent at the time of Jesus was what a labourer would earn in half a life-time. So, for a master to entrust one, two or five talents to three of his slaves was a huge act of trust in each one of them. He knew their skills differed, so...
Call to Prayer: Sunday 15th November 2020 Prayer @ 7pm ‘Well done, good and faithful servant!’ In the Gospel of Matthew, these words are spoken to the servants who have wisely used the talents entrusted to them. In our reading of the Parable of the Talents, we remember that the...
The advice I have given about continence is by no means unimportant. If someone follow it he will not be sorry: he will save himself and me too, as the giver of this advice. It is no small reward, to take a lost and wandering soul and bring it to...
FOSTER OR FESTER One angle we might take on today’s Gospel of the parable of the talents is that the spiritual life of the Christian either grows or it stagnates. Either we foster its growth or it will fester. When I speak of the “spiritual life”, I refer more broadly...
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https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/11/christ-the-pursuing-bridegroom Home What has gone wrong? On the collapse of public life
