God Wants Friends, not Slaves St Mark makes two puzzling observations in today’s Gospel reading. First, he refers to the “brothers and sisters” of Jesus. How could Jesus have brothers and sisters since Mary remained a perpetual virgin? That question...
In recalling Christ’s Resurrection we are called to a deeper faith. We have spent 40 days – sometimes it seems like 40 long days – preparing for this Sunday of the Resurrection. Why do we expend such spiritual, and sometimes physical and emotional energy,...
The Transfiguration ranks prominently among Christ’s miraculous deeds. The showing of his divinity within his humanity anticipates the glorious body of His resurrection and demonstrates the redeemed and glorious body promised to all who remain faithful to Him and who...
Towards the close of his life, Bl John Henry Newman asked that the epitaph of his grave stone read: Ex umbris et imaginibus ad veritatem – From the shadows and imitations into the truth. His wishes were followed and now while what remains of his body...
The person of Christ, and who He is, remains a central question for Christianity. Not that it is a question unanswered; far from it. Christian history is crowded with both good and bad answers; helpful and harmful answers; ones that range from the sublime expressions...
In a few days time we will celebrate the day our Saviour was born; that decisive and unrepeatable event when heaven came to earth. As some of the Fathers of the Church say, heaven was wedded to earth. Nine months ago we celebrated the Annunciation of the Lord,...
