Liturgical Index
Second Sunday of Easter (Low Sunday)
Just as the bands that had shrouded him in death could not hold him, nor the stone seal the tomb, so now the locked doors, behind which the disciples... more »
St Paul tells us, in his First Letter to the Corinthians,I want you to understand that on the one hand no one can be speaking under the influence of... more »
In the First Eucharistic Prayer we profess that our faith 'comes to us from the apostles'. Today in the Gospel we have an example of what this means,... more »
The plainchant music and words for this Sunday have an unforgettable seductive quality:Quasimodo geniti infantes ...Like new-born babes, long for the... more »
It is often said that society today is disfigured by a culture of suspicion and mistrust – distrust of our banks, of our political process, of... more »
In St John's Gospel Jesus says 'I have overcome the world'. He means the world in so far as the world is marked by sin and death. And that world is... more »
Saint John tells us that, on the same day that the disciples first hear about the resurrection, Jesus himself appears to them and gives them the... more »
On the first Easter Sunday the disciples were gathered together, the doors were locked, but suddenly they became aware that Jesus was standing among... more »
On the day of the Resurrection Jesus, the risen Christ, appeared early in the morning to Mary Magdalene, who eventually recognised him; he commanded... more »
Cycle: C - 11th April 2010: Blind Faith?
If I told you that I had won the lottery last weekend you would probably not believe me. You know, probably, that the odds against that are... more »
Many of us will at one time or another have been confronted by the following question: 'But why do we have to go to Confession?' Certainly I can... more »
What's the point in believing? To put it crudely: what's in it for us? Does believing in Jesus' resurrection leave us exactly where we were before?... more »
'Peace' is a word which looms large in the Christian vocabulary. 'Peace be with you' is the greeting that Jesus gives to his disciples when he comes... more »
