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Stay Positive

Our world screams out for poetry even if it can’t cope with it. Faith can only exist in a world of poetry. God is always big and bigger. Little minds have nothing worthwhile to say of God or faith. The rigids and the dogmatics and the absolutes live in the world...

Feast of Corpus Christi

In 1263 a German priest, Fr. Peter of Prague, made a pilgrimage to Rome. He stopped in Bolsena, Italy, to celebrate Mass at the Church of St. Christina. At the time he was having doubts about Jesus being truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. He was affected by the...

Black Lives Matter…. All Lives Matter

We are seeing now in the cities throughout America, the kind of violence that comes after justice is denied, and after oppression has lived in a land and amongst a people for far too long. What you see on American streets now is a cry from the oppressed. It’s a cry...

Spirit of God, Loving and Free

These days all of us are confronted with situations which seem confusing and contradictory and we wonder where we are going and what the outcome might be.  At times we may feel quite helpless in these kinds of circumstances.  Today we celebrate the coming of the Holy...

Ascension A Time to Hope

This Sunday we celebrate together the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, celebrating the moment when forty days after His Resurrection, our Lord Jesus Christ ascended in glory into Heaven, to return to His Home, triumphant and victorious in the sight of all of...

Darkness into Light

Despite the confinement and lock-down, not to mention the Corona virus, we have enjoyed great weather this spring. Nature and the environment, has offered us all a sense of hope and encouragement despite the most challenging of times we live in. Nature seems to...