Lecture for the Lay Cistercians gathered in Avila, June 2025 “Synodality: How to live it concretely in the midst of
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Read More+(Intro) Today we have the memorial of St Martin of Tours. He became a monk and started the first monastery
Read MoreAll Saints’ Day Oscar Wilde an English writer once said: “The Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone—for
Read More+(Intro) This morning we will hear from St Paul of how the Holy Spirit comes to us in our weakness.
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Read More+(Intro) On this last Saturday of the month we remember Our Lady, Mary ever virgin. There was fulfilled in her
Read More+(Intro) Today we have the memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. The rosary is a familiar form of prayer
Read MoreHomily for October 12, 2025 A few years ago, I had the privilege and fun of distributing some family inheritance
Read MoreReading I: 2 Kings 5:14-17 Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of Elisha,
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