Posts tagged repentance

Lovest thou Me?

Sunday 1 May 2022

We are not all apostles. But we are followers of Christ, and our words of declared love for Christ must be demonstrated by tears of conversion and the love of our neighbour, or else it is merely empty rhetoric.

Remember not past years

Wednesday 6 April 2022

We have a choice: either go back to old habits, and wallow in the pains and bondage of the past, or take the opportunity given and enter the new exodus, walking the way of life with Christ.

Christ and the Barren Fig-tree, Giandomenico Tiepolo (1727–1804); private collection via Christie’s

Turn from our wickedness and live

Monday 4 April 2022

Christ wants us to ask ourselves whether or not we are bearing the fruit associated with the kingdom of God. For a fig tree to be itself and fulfil its true being then it needs to bring forth fruit.

Forgive me, O Lord

Wednesday 2 March 2022

Forgive me O Lord, O Lord in the merits of thy Christ and my Jesus, thine anointed, and my Saviour; forgive me my sins, all my sins.

In the world but looking to Heaven

Sunday 16 May 2021

Fr Thomas’s homily on the Sunday after Ascension, 16 May “I do not pray that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil one.” The difficulties of the world, its pains and sorrows and even the evils which are around us, present some of the greatest […]

The Cross shines forth

Monday 22 March 2021

“God is love”, love which is willing to go to any extent, even the death of the Cross, to call us back from our sins. This is why the Cross is glorious.