Readings: Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19 I believe there are moments in John’s Gospel when Jesus challenges the best out of people standing on the brink. Last month he asked the woman taken in adultery, Has no one condemned you? If she is ever to change her life, she must answer No one, Sir, […]

Readings: Acts 5:27-32, 40-41; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19 The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. James presiding and preaching. As our regular guests may be aware, we are experimenting with rubrics, the placement of church furniture and the use of space in anticipation of renovating the church. For your information, what we are doing […]

The program to be conducted April 17th, starting at 3:30pm in the Retreat House Chapel has a handful of open spots if anyone is interested.  St. Benedict for the Rest of Us, which will include a welcome from the Abbot, a talk on monastic principles that all can use in their spiritual life by a […]

Readings: Isaiah 7:10-14, 8:10; Hebrews 10:4-10; Luke 1:26-38 Two Fridays ago, Good Friday fell on 25 March, the calendar date for the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Incarnation. That doesn’t happen often but it does occur predictably. Perhaps it even happens appropriately because the mystery of the Incarnation seems to come full circle. It […]

Words which I spoke at the beginning of this night’s liturgy sum up our experience together. On this most holy of nights, our Lord Jesus Christ passed over from death to life: this is the Passover of the Lord. On this most holy night, the Church invites us, her faithful people, to come together to […]

Readings: Exodus 12:1-8,11-14; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; John 13:1-15 There is in the Eastern Church a well-known icon which has been given the name “Extreme Humility”. This icon depicts the crucified body of Jesus standing in his tomb. In our Western Church tradition we have the famous  Shroud of Turin, which is believed to be the […]

Readings: 2 Samuel 7:4-5, 12-14, 16; Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22; Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24 It has frequently been observed that whereas Mary the Mother of Jesus speaks only rarely in the gospels, Joseph speaks not at all. And yet, doesn’t he? Fr. Edward of blessed memory was fond of quoting a Fulton Sheen saying according […]

O good Lord Jesus, from what great bitterness have you not freed me by your coming, time after time? When distress has made me weep, when untold sobs and groans have shaken me, have you not anointed my wounded my conscience with the ointment of your mercy and poured in the oil of gladness? How […]

Readings: Isaiah 7:10-14, 8-10; Hebrews 10:4-10; Luke 1:26-38 The community Mass is celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. James preaching. The feast, the calendar date of which fell on Good Friday, is transferred from 25 March this year to Monday, 4 April after the conclusion of the Easter Octave. The Easter Octave extends the celebration of […]

Readings: Acts 5:12-16; Revelation 1:9-13, 17-19; John 1:9-13, 17-19 The community Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 AM, Fr. Vincent Collins presiding and preaching. The Second Sunday of Easter concludes the Easter Octave and was formerly known as Low Sunday. Pope John Paul II designated it as Divine Mercy Sunday. It is also the First […]