The biographies of those named as saints in the church often promote the false idea that a saint is more likely to be an introvert who prefers to hide in a chapel than to engage with the world…

Knowing that we too are invited to this divine life is the whole point of human existence. To miss this point, is to miss the whole point of life…

By happy coincidence I have spent time this week in the same course of study as a couple of dozen seminarians from the U.S. I have been inspired by their vocations stories and their enthusiasm…

Saints are not saints because they have achieved self-mastery or psychological wholeness. It is not even avoidance of sin that makes a saint so…

The Transfiguration of Jesus is the event that opens the door between earthly ordinariness, days and weeks of routine, mundane and struggling existence, and divine eternity…

I am deeply grateful to those who support me in my desire to live fully as a priest…

Thank you to all who are active in promoting diocesan priesthood as a fulfilling, God-centred life of adventure and service…

You might remember beginning every new page of school work with the heading A.M.D.G. recalling that the letters stood for Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (For the Greater Glory of God…

It’s the feast of Ignatius Loyola today and he has helped me to see that my fears and compulsions often tragically lead me to go through days and weeks as if I’m at least half asleep…

If you sometimes feel driven and trapped by your compulsion and activity you might find this reflection helpful…

There is a tendency to see prayer as an incantation recited in the hope of magically causing a response. But magic is not what we want. It’s relationship with God that we are seeking…

Thanks be to God for grandparents. You might like to share this post with grandparents who will appreciate some encouragement on this their feast day…

Jesus certainly doesn’t intend to condemn the attitude of service but rather the breathlessness with which it is sometimes lived…

Fifty years on you can’t miss how these astronauts were moved by what they were experiencing, and we can’t help being moved by the same beauty…

Last week’s TIME magazine featured the architect Antoni Gaudi and his beautiful basilica of Sagrada Familia.  Gaudi was a holy man…