REASONS FOR BELIEVING
Fr Bob Eccles considers what the story of Jesus calming the storm on the lake has to teach us about reasons for believing. Image: Rembrandt’s Christ in the Storm on the Lake. Job 38. 1, 8-11 Psalm 106 2...
THE DAY OF THE LORD – a post-pandemic reflection from our bishops
A beautiful meditation from our Bishops on recovery after the pandemic. They particularly recognise how Catholics have been living out their baptismal priesthood in feeding the hungry and keeping churches open for worship. And a big call to come...
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...