This Sunday/Today we celebrate Good Shepherd Sunday, and it’s also World Day of Prayer for Vocations. It also so happens that the Gospel...

The Lord is risen! It’s such unexpected news that they have difficulty getting their heads round it. They thought they were seeing a...

On 30th April 2000, Pope John Paul II canonised a nun who had lived in Poland. She is now referred to as Saint Faustina, and during the...

Christ is risen! Alleluia! Today we celebrate the victory of Christ over sin and death. Death seemed to have the upper hand, to be...

Last night we re-lived the experience of Christ washing the disciples’ feet, His command of service, His institution of the Eucharist and...

I’m sure many people would say that the next three days are some of the most wonderful in the whole of the Church’s year, as we move from...

Back when I was at primary school, we had quite a large field (or at least it seemed rather large when I was so small), and looking...

Back in November 2020, the world heard that the actor Dave Prowse, who played Darth Vader in the Star Wars films, had died. He was 6 ft...

Quite a few years ago, I was visiting the headmaster at our parish primary school. I hadn’t been a naughty boy – I can’t remember the...

It’s Lent, and it’s also the Year of Prayer. So my task today is to link together these two themes, say a bit about the readings and...

I just can’t wait, can I? Lent hasn’t started yet, but I’m going to preach on sin. So what is sin? A simple answer would be: something...

There’s the story of a parish where there has been a flood. The Parish Priest gives the announcements at the end of Mass and he says:...