It was so lovely to see on display the many talents and gifts of our St. Mary’s P7 children at their graduation last Thursday. It was even lovelier to hear the applause and feel the love and encouragement coming from their parents and teachers. For them, the most important gift...
As she was dying, my late mother said to me: “Peter, son, I am going home.” On this Trinity Sunday, let’s not tax our minds to try and grasp (in vain!) the eternal Mystery of God but instead let’s allow our hearts to be drawn to understand God as our...
Believers will often say to children when someone close to them has died: “your grandad has gone to heaven” or better “Jesus has taken your grandma to heaven.” It’s a way to reassure the child and us too that the dead have gone to a better place. We cannot know...
God is the author of every human life. He is its protector from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death. He is the One who sustains it at every point in between. Mary visits Elizabeth because both have first been visited by God with the gift of...
Before Jesus ascended into heaven, he descended onto the earth. He came seeking out Adam and Eve who had fallen from heaven, and all their children. To find them, He descended into death and the underworld to rescue all who would accept Him. So, when He ascended back to heaven,...
If something new eventually gets old, then it’s not the sort of new thing which is proper to God. Anything new God does or creates will remain new forever. From our side, we can get used to the new things God does. We can start thinking of them as old....
Pope Leo’s first words were those of the Risen Christ: Peace be with you! And at Mass with the cardinals the next day, he said: “Jesus showed us a model of human holiness that we can all imitate, together with the promise of an eternal destiny that transcends all our...
“Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” With this question, Jesus expresses the deepest want of every human heart, including His own which was also divine. We all want love, even God, especially God. What is life worth without love? Without love, life is a living...
As might be expected, the commentaries and analysis concerning Pope Francis himself and his pontificate have been being churned out fast and furious in recent days, almost before the wax seal on his coffin has had a chance to dry. I used to think that experts were rare, but in...
Before there was anything, there was nothing, but God. Then, God spoke and there was everything, created by God and created in God. The only thing He did not create was sin and its offspring death. These came from his angelic and human creatures, Satan and Adam. So, God entered...
