Corpus Christi
As we celebrate this feast, perhaps we might ask ourselves a simple question: do I truly recognise the gift that is placed before me each time I come to Mass?
Holy Trinity Sunday
From all eternity, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have poured themselves out into each other in an infinite act of love, which we, as Christians, are called to experience through faith and the sacraments.
Awe-inspiring feast of Pentecost
Wisdom; Understanding; Knowledge; Counsel; Courage; Piety and Fear of the Lord, 7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit: given to us when we receive the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Come to the Lord, Come to the Spirit
And the reading from Revelation gives the final, hopeful word. It is Christ’s own voice saying: “I am coming soon… Let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.”
The Father will send the Holy Spirit in his name
If anyone loved me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come and make out home with him”. The Father and the Son will make their home with us in the Holy Spirit when we ask God that we will be loving people.
Charcoal for the fire
A despondent Peter spent the night looking for fish, but what he found at dawn was self-knowledge and Christ-knowledge and became the very first Bishop of Rome as a result.