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Pentecost Novena: Day 8: The Gift of Wisdom

Friday 21 May 2021

It is the gift of Wisdom that strengthens our faith, fortifies hope, perfects charity, and promotes the practice of virtue in the highest degree.

Pentecost Novena: Day 7: The Gift of Counsel

Thursday 20 May 2021

The gift of Counsel endows the soul with supernatural prudence, enabling it to judge promptly and rightly what must done, especially in difficult circumstances.

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Pentecost Novena: Day 6: The Gift of Understanding

Wednesday 19 May 2021

Understanding, as a gift of the Holy Spirit, helps us to grasp the meaning of the truths of our holy religion.

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Pentecost Novena: Day 5: The Gift of Knowledge

Tuesday 18 May 2021

Knowledge unmasks the pretence of created things, reveals their emptiness, and points out their only true purpose as instruments in the service of God.

Pentecost Novena: Day 4: The Gift of Fortitude

Monday 17 May 2021

By the gift of Fortitude the soul is strengthened against natural fear, and supported to the end in the performance of duty.

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 […]