EASTER – HOPE AND JOY IN A TIME OF GRIEF
Fr Bob Eccles finds Easter as hope and joy in a time of grief – and encourages us to follow the example of Mary Magdalene, and keep in touch. Grief catches us in different ways. Here are three people...
STATIONS OF THE CROSS WITH MUSIC – from our Dominican Sisters
The Stations of the Cross are a traditional devotion for Lent, especially for Holy Week, which we can do as a community or privately at home. Here’s a recording of Stations of the Cross recorded at the chapel at...
THE ANNUNCIATION: OUR GIFT TO GOD?
Fr Bob Eccles is surprised by how, at the Annunciation, God asks a gift of Our Lady – and reflects on the surprise to us that we too have gifts to give to God… Some words of encouragement as...
ST. JOSEPH, 19 March – his Year, and a new prayer to him
In his letter for this Year of St. Joseph, and very prophetically in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard,Pope Francis says, “The nobility of Joseph’s heart is such that what he learned from the law he made...
THE VACCINES, ARE THEY ALRIGHT?
Catholics everywhere are asking questions about whether it’s moral to have a Covid vaccine, as some of them have origins in tissues taken from an aborted child. Fr Bob Eccles helps us with this serious and difficult question, based...
TRUE FAITH OR MAKE-BELIEVE?
Noting how the devil’s temptations of Jesus resemble children’s make-believe games, Fr Bob Eccles invites us to accept the wonderful, transformative reality of God’s Easter love. On the first Sunday of Lent, the Church always has us listen to...
FEAR AND LONGING: CHRIST THE OUTSIDER AND HEALER
In a time of fear and longing for touch, Fr Colin Carr reflects on Christ healing the leper (homily for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)). We all have feelings about cleanliness: we spend a lot of...
WHEN YOU’VE HAD ENOUGH
Fr Bob Eccles looks very honestly at those days (maybe a lot of them during this present time) when we’ve had enough – and introduces us to hope, in the form of the Sacrament of the present moment… Have...
“THE TRUTH WHICH HAS CALLED US”: a Sermon for the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, 28 January
“The truth which has called us. This truth is much less the truth we find than the truth that finds us.” Fr Euan’s sermon for the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas. St Thomas Aquinas, whose feast we celebrate in...
FOR EVERYONE WHO CAN’T COME TO MASS…
Now for the good news… Fr Bob Eccles reminds us of how the Holy Spirit unites us all in the Holy Eucharist, whether we can be physically present at Mass or not. Many tax-collectors and sinners were also sitting...