Saturday 17 June 2023 The Immaculate Heart of Mary Week 10 in Ordinary Time 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 The love of Christ overwhelms us when we reflect that if one man has died for all, then all men should be dead; and the reason he died for all was so...
Articles for June 2023
The Sacred Heart
Friday 16 June 2023 The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Deuteronomy 7:6-11 Moses said to the people: ‘You are a people consecrated to the Lord your God; it is you that the Lord our God has chosen to be his very own people out of all the peoples on...
Building Communion
Thursday 15 June 2023 Week 10 in Ordinary Time 2 Corinthians 3:15-4:1,3-6 Even today, whenever Moses is read, the veil is over their minds. It will not be removed until they turn to the Lord. Now this Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,...
Tertianship – believe what is given to you
The Gospel talked of the importance of the law. But what does he mean? And is Chris really going to talk about the law at this Tertianship Mass. Well, no he isn’t – kind of. As I said to at your opening Mass on November 16, last year, we...
A Covenant of Spirit
Wednesday 14 June 2023 Week 10 in Ordinary Time 2 Corinthians 3:4-11 Before God, we are confident of this through Christ: not that we are qualified in ourselves to claim anything as our own work: all our qualifications come from God. He is the one who has given us...
The “Yes-person”
Tuesday 13 June 2023 Saint Antony of Padua, Priest, Doctor, Week 10 in Ordinary Time 2 Corinthians 1:18-22 I swear by God’s truth, there is no Yes and No about what we say to you. The Son of God, the Christ Jesus that we proclaimed among you – I...
A Gentle, Comforting God.
Monday 12 June 2023 Week 10 in Ordinary Time 2 Corinthians 1:1-7From Paul, appointed by God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from Timothy, one of the brothers, to the church of God at Corinth and to all the saints in the whole of Achaia. Grace and...
Yes or No. Neither or Both.
Tuesday 6 June 2023 week 9 in Ordinary Time Tobit 2:9-14I, Tobit, took a bath; then I went into the courtyard and lay down by the courtyard wall. Since it was hot I left my face uncovered. I did not know that there were sparrows in the wall above...
The Keystone
In France last year I visited several rural Mass centers around Issoudun, the MSC place of foundation. I sat in each church for some time sensing the sacred and admiring the architecture that holds it, for many European churches sustain the sacred in the design of their arches, walls...