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Dear All The Galloway Diocesan Newsletter recently asked for contributions to the edition it is preparing for Advent, so I decided to send in an article on our recent Parish Festival along with some photos! I am reproducing it all here just in case the Newsletter decides it doesn’t have...

Holiness is not the leisurely pursuit of the chosen few. It is the final goal, the end-game, of the human adventure, of every human life. It is a universal, a Catholic, call and destiny. If the Beatific Vision is the destiny for which we strive; and if the content of...

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The Pharisee in today’s parable is wrapped up in himself. Jesus even portrays him as saying his prayer to himself. He was so grand in his own eyes that God couldn’t get a look in. He had become his own god.   It’s so easy to make religion, and even...

The Amalekites would have defeated Israel if Moses had not kept on praying and if those with him had not kept supporting him. Our real enemies are not flesh and blood, St. Paul tells us, but the spiritual forces of evil. We experience their power and onslaught every day. Jesus...