The Gospel text set before us today is a difficult one. It doesn’t come up very often in the liturgy because the Tenth Sunday is often missed out due to the particular timing of Lent in any given year. Let us look at two problems that arise within it. First...
Today we celebrate the Feast of “The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ” (Corpus Christi). The body of Christ came about through his suffering, death and resurrection. When we eat his body, we proclaim the paschal mystery with the people gathered, the stories proclaimed and the priest who acts...
Before we can look at the question of the Blessed Trinity we have to decide for ourselves whether we believe or not there is a God. Most people believe in one, even if that God is themselves. The Jews, of course, believe in a God. He is the God of...
Pentecost means fifty – seven weeks plus one day – fifty days after Easter. The Jews called it Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, the feast of the Harvest, or the feast of the First Fruits. Whatever way we look at this feast it denotes the end of a period of...
The Bible is divided into the time before Jesus, the time of Jesus, and the time between Jesus and the final restoration of the reign of heaven. The communities described in Acts, and us too, are all lodged in this third period of time. The Acts of the Apostles is...