These three days, from Holy Thursday evening until the Saturday evening Vigil of Easter, are at the heart of our life as Christians and therefore the core of our human...
Triduum
these three days
This Holy Triduum beginning with this evening's Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper is at the heart of our Christian faith, and therefore at the centre of our human...
Holy Week Retreat
You might like to join me in considering this week from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday as a week of retreat in daily life. For a Christian, to retreat is not to run...
Easter meaning
This entire weekend from Thursday to Monday is known throughout the world as the Easter break, but we Christians mark these Triduum days at a deeper level, knowing...
walking the walk
It is Holy Thursday morning. As I was at prayer this morning the sky became light and the sun rose above the horizon, a beautiful sunrise. Here was I contemplating...
this Holy Week
With the celebration of Palm Sunday this weekend we enter the Holy Week journey through suffering and death to the resurrection of Easter morning. In this brief clip I...
Holy Week
A guide to the journey of Holy Week, from Palm Sunday, to the liturgies of the Triduum, to the Celebration of the Resurrection of the Lord. You might consider this week...
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come & go
I like that. The world as the theatre of human history, that is, the world as the place where God and people meet and live together.
no & yes
When the angel left Mary, the challenges and problems of this new era of her life had just begun.
highway for God
Unbridled ambition is problematic and resentment is exhausting. Love, generosity and forgiveness really is foundational,
by rote
Rote learning was a norm in my primary school days, repetition of the times tables, two times two equals four, three times two
so simple
So simple that children who naturally and naively live with open eyes and ears get it, when we adults too often miss the point.