Sunday 15 February 2026 I prefer not to think of AI, and how much I don’t like it. Or the internet, and how much time I spend on it. Because I depend on both more than I care to admit. I’ve wrestled with my take and my opinion. And I can’t get further than this: … Read more
Sunday 8 February 2026 “You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.” (Matthew 5:13, 14) I woke up late, and got to church later than usual. I … Read more
Sunday 1 February 2026 Delving into the beatitudes after Mass, I turned to Bishop Barron’s homily for the week. The section he picked up on struck me as particularly relevant. “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you.” As Bishop Barron put it, if you’re not facing resistance from some quarter, you’re not … Read more
Sunday 25 January 2026 Something in the gospel today caught my attention. It wasn’t James and John abandoning their nets to follow Jesus, as remarkable as that was. It was who they left behind. Not a net full of fish. But Zebedee. Their father. Zebedee is a great name, and when watching the magic roundabout … Read more
Sunday 18 January 2026 I struggled in mass to pay attention. I do drift when John the Baptist is mentioned. He is easy to dwell upon. It’s not just his clothing, the makeshift clobber of someone completely uninterested in possessions, appearance, or the opinion of others (a powerful contradiction to our times). Neither is it … Read more
Tuesday 13 January 2026 There’s a homeless man in our congregation. He appears in and around the church from time to time. Mostly minding his own business. And sometimes prompting other people to mind theirs. He’s scruffy, maybe 60, with a full beard and a long, complicated past. He doesn’t attend mass in a way … Read more
I couldn’t stop thinking that the reader this morning set off too quickly. There was no hint of them slowing down. And frankly, I was struggling to keep up. Am I a King like Christ? Was that it? Or am I a Prophet? Someone who talks of the things of God when things need to … Read more
The 33rd Sunday in ordinary time, or the last “green” mass as Canon P described it. There will be no more green vestments until 18 January, as we make way to Christ the King and then Advent. That means we’re coming up on a year since my first Mass, which I attended as a non-Catholic. … Read more
Remembrance Sunday and the Dedication of the Lataran Basilica There were poppies everywhere in church for Remembrance Day. Each knitted and assembled in wreaths, or hung separately on the end of each pew. Bright blobs of red against the white walls. The Dedication of the Lataran Basilica meant we heard about Jesus turning over tables … Read more
Monday 3 November 2025. All Souls’ Day All Souls, and a Monday night Mass. About 20 people on a mild evening. I was thinking all day about who I should be praying for. There were my grand parents, on both sides, although I only really knew one pair, my mother’s parents, who were instrumental in … Read more