Posts tagged Life

Ecce Homo, St Albert Chmielowski (1845–1916), 1879–1888; Albertine House, Krakow

Surrender, do not succumb

Monday 18 October 2021

Christ has faced death and triumphed over it so we might not fear the call to follow him through the way of the cross and dying to self.

Take up thy Cross, the Saviour said

Sunday 30 August 2020

The following of Christ is none other than the way of the Cross. There is no escaping this path if we wish to save our lives.

Encountering Life in the Incarnation.

Friday 3 January 2014

My thoughts about the Holy Family took me back a few days to the feast of St John the Apostle on 27th December. Time and again we see in John’s writing his struggle to put into words the experience he had of know Jesus. It comes in the prologue to his Gospel and again in […]

In the face of great evil.

Saturday 9 February 2013

A few weeks ago some of us joined the diocesan congregation for their patronal festival. Since then, I have been thinking a lot about St Agnes and about Fr Raglan’s homily. The story of St Agnes is an uncomfortable one. During the infamous persecution under Emperor Diocletian, many were tortured and executed for their faith. […]