I would like to read you a quote that I think speaks to our readings today. It is from the French 20th century mystic, Simone Weil....

Today we celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. The Church asks us to reflect on the great mystery of the Eucharist. But where to...

Where do we learn about love? A few years ago, when I was working as a hospital chaplain, I had a very powerful encounter, which made me...

I think I have mentioned before how our parish prepares families for the baptism of their children. In some fashion or other, we end up...

This week we had our prep students join us for Mass on Friday. We also had at St Colman’s the funeral of Pamela Wood, one of the pillars...

In our second reading today, St Peter instructs those he is addressing to be ready to explain the reason why they have such hope. This is...

Thomas asks Jesus, where he is going. Jesus then tells him, and it seems like the apostles still don’t get it. ‘Have I been with you all...

Today is World Day of Prayer for vocations, and our gospel gives us some interesting ways of considering how a vocation works. In the...

Over the last few years, we have been considering Pope Francis’s call for every Catholic community to be fundamentally missionary....

Today we will be praying the First Eucharistic Prayer, the most ancient of the Eucharistic prayers, known as the Roman Canon. The first...

Hope, Joy. Where is love at the centre of our lives? Creation, powering down, or up? 3.7 billion years, leading to ? Transformation....

Last night, when we celebrated the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, the first of the three great celebrations of Easter Triduum, we...

Tonight we remember the Lord’s Supper. We participate in the memorial Jesus himself inaugurated to continue his gift of himself to...

We’ve just heard the story of the killing of Jesus. Let’s sit with it for a few minutes. We might like to ask ourselves where we might be...

We’re sitting down at home, just had a nice dinner, relaxing. We’re watching the television, and a story comes on, and we decide we don’t...