I SHALL not be renewing my vows at the end of next month. After more than 18 months of very...

We are told to "love our neighbour" but do we realise how much we need our neighbour to thrive?

Many people today seem rather ambiguous about the missionary identity of the Church. There is a strand of thought which...

I WAS not able to attend my sister’s wedding last year, due to the pandemic. Or, more specifically, due to...

Love: “If you love, you will get hurt and possibly killed; if you do not love, you are dead already.”...

Saviour is born: Hope, in the words of the philosopher Peter Geach, is the “virtue that preserves us alike from...

Helping others: “The preacher is not going to be too anxious about the state of his own soul, because his...

Pandemic confirmations: Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, poses for a group photo July 26, 2020, after confirmations at...

Kingdom of Heaven: “Remove from us the likeness of the world, on which we had been modelling ourselves, and make...

St Bernard: When the bones of the saint were examined in 1855 there was found amongst them a wooden tablet,...

Empty pews: Who are we to abandon, in a fit of pique, the mother who gave us the faith in...

Grace: “Our efforts, our struggles, our perseverance are not simply or even primarily our achievements; they are the work of...

God's mercy: " Christians who strive to live Christian lives and fail in the attempt – perhaps repeatedly – are...

Crucifixion: Christ on the Cross between the Two Thieves, by Peter Paul Rubens. DURING my days at university I worked...

Father's will: "If Jesus were to transform them into bread at the prompting of the devil, then His will would...

Preacher's role: Our preaching task is to make that truth actual, striking, appealing.  PREACHING Practice – the weekly highlight of...

Wrong pipe: "Once we had unearthed the problematic plumbing, we were perplexed to discover that it did not bear any...

Nativity: The seemingly random list of names at the beginning of Matthew’s Gospel is actually a royal genealogy in which...

Beyond death: "Our true citizenship, as Christians, is that of heaven." November is a spectacular month for the Church. We...

Holy calling: "The meaning of life is to be a saint, because a saint is someone who lives with God...

Self-discovery: When it comes to the question of our identity and why we are here on this earth, we do...

Called to serve: Joshua Whitehead and Brendan Gormley lie prostrate during their ordination Mass at St Stephen’s Cathedral on May...

Adoring: Each religious community is, hopefully, a font of living water diffusing the joy that is life in Christ into the...

Learning well: “The great secret, not often mentioned,” he said, “is that most of life is spent standing in the...

Picturesque: The beautiful Mt Lofty near Adelaide. ON Boxing Day last year I went for a hike up Mount Lofty. ...