Our Church across the world is excitedly making preparations for the 2025 year of Jubilee. It will be year of great celebrations! Pope Francis, in order to help us to get ready and be spiritually prepared has decreed that we should begin with “A Year of Prayer”...
Advent is a time to grow in our Faith, Hope and Charity During Advent the monastic liturgy allows us to follow very closely in the footsteps of the Virgin Mary. In the Gospel, we see how great Mary’s faith was and how it continued to grow throughout this time of...
Advent: Looking forward in hope by Monsignor Robert Draper Advent this year arrives at the beginning of December. For most of us that is the gloomy time of the year, but the anticipation of celebrating Christmas invites us to look forward to a time of celebration –...
A silence worthy of the Name The poppy, small and stark, shines out from every place. As if a shard of broken dreams and promises. A crimson tear of blood which marks this moment’s chance. ‘Let this time be the healing of the damaged world.’ Is human...