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Mary’s patience is rewarded and she recognises Christ when he calls her by name. His relationship with us is personal—he knows my name....
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Two thousand years ago, the beloved disciple standing near the Cross was John. But today, on Good Friday, as we gather to venerate the Cross, the beloved disciple standing near the Cross is you and me. We are now the beloved disciple, the one Jesus loves....
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Our Lord’s command to love others as he has loved us applies to every person and ministry in the Church, ordained and non-ordained. But no one can minister fruitfully in the Church if they have not first understood the lesson of Jesus washing his apostles’ feet....
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Throughout Lent, we’ve stayed close to Jesus. We’ve tried to pray more, to live in his presence, and to imagine ourselves in the Gospel scenes we’ve read. We’ve made sacrifices and offered penance, but inconsistently and halfheartedly. The measure of a good Lent is getting to know ourselves better...
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We are striving this Lent to stay close to Jesus. We want him at our side as we battle the enemies of the soul: the devil, the world, the flesh. Not content to be purely defensive, we also accept his invitation to climb the summit....
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As we accompany Jesus this holy season, we started in the depths of temptation and weakness, and followed him to the heights of the transfiguration and contemplatio. But we know that Lent leads us inexorably to Jerusalem, and to the events of Holy Week. At the Last Supper, the...
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The Transfiguration tells us everything we need to know about contemplative prayer. Every Christian is capable of becoming a contemplative, but most of us don’t get there in this life because we’re not prepared to climb the mountain of sacrifice and obedience. The way to contemplative prayer demands discipline...
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Every Lent we accompany Jesus into the desert. Lent is not something we enjoy, but it is the best way for us to return to God. To re-convert. To practice metanoia. Jesus leads us down from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea: the lowest place on earth, 400 metres below...
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Often, we are genuinely sorry for our sins, but it does not always lead to a change of ways in that we continue to confess the same old sins over and over again....
Mary’s patience is rewarded and she recognises Christ when he calls her by name. His relationship with us is personal—he knows my name....
Two thousand years ago, the beloved disciple standing near the Cross was John. But today, on Good Friday, as we gather to venerate the Cross, the beloved disciple standing near the Cross is you and me. We are now the beloved disciple, the one Jesus loves....
Our Lord’s command to love others as he has loved us applies to every person and ministry in the Church, ordained and non-ordained. But no one can minister fruitfully in the Church if they have not first understood the lesson of Jesus washing his apostles’ feet....
Throughout Lent, we’ve stayed close to Jesus. We’ve tried to pray more, to live in his presence, and to imagine ourselves in the Gospel scenes we’ve read. We’ve made sacrifices and offered penance, but inconsistently and halfheartedly. The measure of a good Lent is getting to know ourselves better...
We are striving this Lent to stay close to Jesus. We want him at our side as we battle the enemies of the soul: the devil, the world, the flesh. Not content to be purely defensive, we also accept his invitation to climb the summit....
As we accompany Jesus this holy season, we started in the depths of temptation and weakness, and followed him to the heights of the transfiguration and contemplatio. But we know that Lent leads us inexorably to Jerusalem, and to the events of Holy Week. At the Last Supper, the...
The Transfiguration tells us everything we need to know about contemplative prayer. Every Christian is capable of becoming a contemplative, but most of us don’t get there in this life because we’re not prepared to climb the mountain of sacrifice and obedience. The way to contemplative prayer demands discipline...
Every Lent we accompany Jesus into the desert. Lent is not something we enjoy, but it is the best way for us to return to God. To re-convert. To practice metanoia. Jesus leads us down from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea: the lowest place on earth, 400 metres below...
Often, we are genuinely sorry for our sins, but it does not always lead to a change of ways in that we continue to confess the same old sins over and over again....