The Easter Mysteries, Pentecost and the Mystic Way
The very reason why Christ sent out his love on the first Pentecost day was so that it could enter into all who would receive
The very reason why Christ sent out his love on the first Pentecost day was so that it could enter into all who would receive
The Resurrection, means that Jesus has been swept up out of the world of space and time in which he’d lived before, not to leave
Part I Let me return to telling the wonderous experience I had in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. After the midnight Office I went
When I was a young man, I received a phone call from Fr Kenneth Campbell, a Franciscan Priest whom I first met after a talk
St Catherine of Siena said that patience isn’t so much a virtue as the test of all true virtue. If you haven’t any patience at
When I first decided to spend my life searching for God I visited the great Carthusian monastery, St Hugh’s Charterhouse, Parkminster in Sussex, Southern England
A forebear of mine, a Catholic priest called Richard Torkington, was made the Rector of the local Parish by the Lord of the Manor, a
Although it is imperative, particularly during Lent, that all of Christendom must turn back to prayer and without delay, no one seems to be listening.
Christianity was originally called a ‘Way’, or rather, ‘The Way’. In other words, it is a journey, an expedition, a great adventure. And it is
In the early Church, Lent grew out of the final forty days of the two-year preparation for Baptism at Easter, which the first Catechumens were
What do we do here and now to live the spirituality that Christ first gave us? Do we need Christ to come again? No, because
A highly educated layman, with more Catholic credentials than I ever came across before, made a statement which simply poleaxed me. He said that he
Leo Tolstoy said that although Christian intellectuals rise to great heights in almost every branch of secular achievement, there is almost always a serious discrepancy
A Letter to a young mother of four who asked my opinion on the Essence of Mystical Theology. I am sorry I should have clarified
A Letter to a young mother of four who asked my opinion on the current Synod of Synodality which she is finding unfathomable. When I
In a talk that I have just recorded in a series I am giving on prayer, I tell how, as the Director of the Diocesan
During one of my lectures, I was busily boring the class to death with stories of the Desert Fathers when one teenage girl started chanting,
The lecturer I admired most was an existentialist who spent his time trying to convert us to his chosen philosophy. Everything he said seemed to
Some weeks ago I went to a special Mass prepared by a group of lay people to ask for God’s mercy on them and their
The local Parish Prayer Group were celebrating forty years since their foundation and were preparing a special Mass for that purpose. The readings, the psalms
Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception meant that there was no sin in her. This meant that there was no impediment within her to prevent the continual
Our Lady never used the Rosary herself while she was on earth, neither did the Apostles, later saints or any of the faithful for over