There is no break between Christmas and Ordinary Time – one flows almost seamlessly into the other through the Baptism of Jesus. We ended our [...]

It may seem strange, but this is a Christmas Feast. Not if we think of Christmas only in terms of the Baby in Bethlehem, but if we have followed [...]

In the East, this Season of Christmas is called the ‘Time of Manifestation’, or Showing. Today is the ‘Feast of the Manifestation’, or the [...]

As an example for us to follow, the Holy Family can seem a little too perfect: when we consider the more “dramatic” events of the Christmas and [...]

Here we enter a new stage of Advent: having spent so much time on the Second Coming, now we look back, to remember the details of the Lord’s [...]

In many ways the readings this Sunday are simply a continuation of last week –Isaiah gives us more details about the work of the Messiah, and [...]

Throughout the first three weeks of Advent, our focus is very clearly on the End of Time, and the Second Coming of the Lord - not on the run-up [...]

Advent opens with a great promise: “In the days to come…” the hope of people who need God. “...The master is coming” is also a promise, not a [...]

The year of Saint Luke ends with a characteristic take on the feast of Christ the King: in Luke's gospel we are so familiar with seeing and [...]

We must be very careful that the real point of today's first reading is not washed away in genuine concerns over what one can and cannot say [...]