What is it to be Christian? Most people these days seem to be repelled by the idea of religion, to begin with. But after centuries of anti-Catholicism, and in the last two centuries anti-Christian rhetoric, there is a gloom that arises in the typical Western mind about the Church. But the oldest sentiment of theContinue reading “Faithfulness (Sunday II of Ordered time)”
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The unifying love that is friendship (Sunday VI of Easter)
Cornelius, a leading character of our first reading this weekend, was a Roman, and so not Jewish, although not necessarily a pagan, for he was sufficiently devoted to the God of Israel to received the angelic vision that led him to call for the Apostle S. Peter. The Romans looked down upon the Jews asContinue reading “The unifying love that is friendship (Sunday VI of Easter)”
Catholic Louth and Mablethorpe 