Theology

  • Palm Sunday

    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...
  • Council of Nicaea’s method still inspires the church 1,700 years

    Interview: Jesuit theologian Father Alban Massie described the Vatican’s International Theological Commission’s new document Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, released to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, as a groundbreaking text with a distinctive methodology....
  • Bishop Homeming’s Lenten Talk 3: the freedom of solitude

    Between 2022 and 2024 Bishop Greg Homeming OCD delivered three series of Lenten Talks, exploring the spirituality of three renowned Carmelites - St John of the Cross, St Teresa of Avila and St Therese of Lisieux. ...
  • Fourth Sunday of Lent

    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....
  • Bishop Homeming’s Lenten Talk 2: How hope leads to freedom

    Between 2022 and 2024 Bishop Greg Homeming OCD delivered three series of Lenten Talks, exploring the spirituality of three renowned Carmelites - St John of the Cross, St Teresa of Avila and St Therese of Lisieux. ...
  • Third Sunday of Lent

    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...
  • Matriarchs, Queens, Women

    Biblical stories are usually read as narratives written from a male perspective, with the main roles assigned to men: patriarchs, judges, kings, prophets. In reality, however, female genius is creatively present in the pages of Scripture, which narrates more than patriarchal stories. At decisive moments in the biblical story,...
  • Bishop Homeming’s Lenten Talk 1: The Jubilee Year of Hope and an invitation to solitude

    Between 2022 and 2024 Bishop Greg Homeming OCD delivered three series of Lenten Talks, exploring the spirituality of three renowned Carmelites - St John of the Cross, St Teresa of Avila and St Therese of Lisieux. ...
  • Second Sunday of Lent

    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...