Ecumenically, this is a very important week. We celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) and remember again the 25th Anniversary of “ Ut Unum Sint”, furthermore, we continue with our weekly commitment to praying with Scottish Christians for an end...
The Daily Bread, 5th June, 2020: Your Only Son. Readings: 2 Timothy 3:10-17; Psalm 118(119):157,160-161,165-166,168; Mark 12:35-37 “If David calls the Messiah ‘Lord’, how can he be also his son?” What’s the answer to this question which Jesus asks at the end of the Gospel today? It is that his...
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-06/pope-francis-sends-message-to-colombia-world-environment-day.html
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/06/common-spirit-common-good https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/06/assisted-suicide-by-zoom Social justice as a religion
From a letter of St. Boniface (675-754) In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship but to keep her on her course. The ancient fathers...
From the moral reflections on Job by Pope St. Gregory the Great Since the dawn goes from darkness into light, it is right that the Church of the elect should be called “dawn” or “first light.” As it is led from the night of disbelief into the light of faith,...
Dear Sisters and Brothers A few weeks ago, all parish priests in Scotland were informed, by the Covid-19 Working Group of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland, of the Group’s initial recommendations for resuming the celebration of parish Mass with the people actually present. Alleluia! In sending out these initial recommendations,...
LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI ON OCCASION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ENCYCLICAL “HAURIETIS AQUAS’ To the Most Reverend Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J. Superior General of the Society of Jesus Today, 50 years later, the Prophet Isaiah’s words, which Pius XII placed at the beginning of the...
Holy Mass on the Solemnity of Pentecost, 31.05.2020 At 10.00 this morning, Sunday of Pentecost, the Holy Father Francis celebrated Holy Mass at the Altar of the Cathedra, in Saint Peter’s Basilica. The following is the homily pronounced by the Pope during the Eucharistic Celebration, after the proclamation of...
