25 Aug Reflections on Sanctity
What is sanctity? There are of course various ways in which we can try to think about it. One is this. Sanctity is our participation in God. What does this...
21 Aug Reflections on John the Baptist
Concerning John the Baptist we are told that "the people were in expectation, and all men questioned in their hearts concerning [him], whether perhaps he were the Christ." And yet,...
18 Aug Reflections on the Human and the Apocalyptic
Our Lord speaks of the individual forms and struggles of our lives which, whatever their intensities, unfold in the context of existence as we know it: "[Take] heed with yourselves...
14 Aug Reflections on the Workings of Grace
'Converso society', writes Rowan Williams, ' would be interested in value, weight, meaning beyond the realm of social appearance, which tells us something of why New Christians showed interest in...
11 Aug Reflections on Blessed Salvio
When the Church beatified 522 martyrs killed in the religious persecution that raged during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39, among them was Salvio Huix-Miralpeix, the Oratorian Bishop of Lerida....