Archives for December 2021

The foundation of faith

Friday 31 December 2021

The earthly home of Nazareth was not incidental to the life of Christ but was absolutely essential. From Mary and Joseph, Christ would have encountered a wisdom that comes from knowing his heavenly Father’s merciful love for his people. It is this encounter that we are called to experience and enter into in our discipleship of faith.

Christ, the Light of the World

Friday 31 December 2021

This Christ-child in his nativity unites heaven and earth, the divine and human, the temporal and eternity and invites us to participate in his great work of redemption.

Listen!

Friday 31 December 2021

Let the joy of John and the exultant humble praise of Elizabeth’s words inspire our faith, that we might be ever thankful for the Lord’s work of salvation and look all the more steadfastly to his return!

The language of the Ordinariate

Saturday 18 December 2021

The language of Divine Worship is one of the most obvious parts of the patrimony we have inherited and brought into the Church. Fr Stephen Hill is an Ordinariate priest and doctoral student at the University of Vienna who is undertaking a research project on the language of Divine Worship and its pastoral implications. The […]

Rejoice in the Lord always

Monday 13 December 2021

St Paul was in prison uncertain whether he would live or die, yet he wrote these words ‘Rejoice in the Lord always, again I say, rejoice.’ He could only do so in the knowledge that God has triumphed gloriously over sin and death and opened the way to eternal joy. He was aware that his citizenship was not of this world but was a citizenship of God’s heavenly kingdom. Let joy be the first characteristic of God’s people in this place!

Come, bring the prisoner out of the prison-house

Monday 6 December 2021

We are reminded this Advent to ask, ‘What is holding me captive?’ or ‘What am I afraid to let go of that hinders me walking more closely to Christ?’