Our daily reading of Galatians at Mass has brought us providentially today to the beginning of Chapter 5, and to a fine text for the final day of our retreat. After a week of prayer and reflection, we rejoice...
We know well that the emphasis of St. Luke in his Gospel is on the mercy and gentleness of Jesus; on his love for sinners, and his tender kindness towards the lowly and the poor. St. Luke also dwells, more than...
Jesus knew very well the desire of his Mother to pass by as far as possible unnoticed; to remain always in the background. He knew she hated having attention directed towards herself, or hearing herself praised in public. In his...
After Jesus had ascended into heaven, the Eleven Apostles, with some few others, with one heart and mind, joined together in continuous prayer. This is the first picture given us in the Acts of the Apostles of the early Church: the Church in seed, the Church in her first beginnings...
Ask and it will be given to you; search and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. In the plan of St. Luke’s Gospel, and of our lectionary, immediately after giving us the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus speaks about the prayer of petition...
Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples. The few and simple words of the Lord's Prayer summarise, focus, make concrete what Jesus taught about prayer through the...
St. Paul sometimes goes in for passages of baffling obscurity, so that commentators are kept busy for millennia, and still they don’t quite get to the bottom of what he’s talking about! But St. Paul also goes in...
