20 Sunday A
To bring hospitable broadness of mind into narrow corners, all-embracing love into closed circuits: this is the Catholic task.
Coram Fratribus
Coram fratribus intellexi
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Assumption
The Assumption of Mary into heaven proves what life is really about, enabling us to face physical death without fear.
Maximus Confessor
Maximus saw that a watered-down Christian creed had nothing to offer the world. His example represents a salutary challenge at times when theology abandons precision and takes cavalier liberties with the faith’s deposit.
Correction
May our words always be clear and true, but never cutting and harsh.
St Clare
Who can possibly probe the extent to which the Son of God was alone, misunderstood by all, known by none in the mystery of his Being?
St Laurence
Let us take resolute care to purify our love from all self-seeking, particularly of the subtlest kind.
A Good Priest
A priest must be very great and very small; noble as a prince, with a peasant’s simplicity and candour; a hero having subdued himself, a man who has fought with God.
My Father’s Shadow
A film that sets out from a wound of absence turns into an account of intimacy.
The Inner Man
What makes a saint a saint is this, not least: in him or her holiness has become embodied.
Relish
Most discourse about 'enhanced' humanity is utterly void of relish in being human, and carries not the faintest echo of hearty joviality.