We continue with our description of the virtues this weekend. Last Sunday, we looked at the great sin of pride and its corrective virtue humility. This weekend, we take up the vice of avarice, which represents an inordinate craving or desire for the things of this world, specifically for riches and the possibility these provideContinue reading “‘Tell me to come to You, across the water…’ (Sunday XIX of Ordered time)”
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Pearls of great price (Sunday XVII of Ordered time)
“let us pray for the graces to acquire these virtues of faith, hope and charity – and especially charity. Let us pray for them as King Solomon once prayed for the divine Wisdom to be a virtuous king.”
Confession, reconciliation and Divine Mercy (Sunday II of Easter)
“…let us meditate today on the power of Divine Mercy, Christ’s call to repentance, the agency of the Christian priesthood in this, and the endless love of the heart of God our Lord.”
And the drama begins again… (Palm Sunday)
I shall say today what I wanted to last week, when we had a letter from the cardinal archbishop. After several weeks of talking about the Catholic Mass, I have wanted to introduce another significant element of the devout lives of Catholics: the devotion to Our Lady. If we peer into the chronicles of theContinue reading “And the drama begins again… (Palm Sunday)”
Supplying divine worship (Sunday XXXII of Ordered time)
One of my favourite Christmas carols is In the bleak mid-winter, and I can’t easily sing the last bit without choking up. If you know it, it is the song of the Christian soul before the Christmas crib, saying, ‘What can I give to You, poor though I am? if I were a shepherd, IContinue reading “Supplying divine worship (Sunday XXXII of Ordered time)”
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