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God treasures each of us, so be not afraid

January 23, 2020

Our Collect for the 3rd Ordinary Sunday in the Novus Ordo was in the 1962 Missale Romanum and the 8th-century Liber sacramentorum Engolismensis for Sunday in the Octave of Christmas. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, dirige actus nostros in beneplacito tuo, ut in nomine dilecti Filii tui mereamur bonis operibus abundare. Beneplacitum means “good pleasure, gracious purpose”.

Mind, body and spirit: why integrity matters in the spiritual life

January 23, 2020

It was only recently that I realised I apparently get easier and richer insights while in the shower than when sitting at a desk or even praying. This ought not to be surprising. It makes perfect sense if one accepts that while there are different parts to the human person, they are all animated by

How to… Prepare for marriage

January 23, 2020

There is no relationship this side of eternity quite like sacramental marriage. As Cardinal Robert Sarah reminds us in his new book on the priesthood, Christian marriage involves the continuous and complete self-giving in love of one person to another, a mirror perhaps of the love of the Persons of the Holy Trinity. It is

Mass readings

January 23, 2020

Ordinary Form Divine Office Week III Sunday, January 26: The Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 8:23–9:3; Ps 27; 1 Cor 1:10-13, 17; Mt 4:12-23 or 4:12-17 Monday, January 27: Weekday in Ordinary Time or St Angela Merici 2 Sm 5:1-7, 10; Ps 89; Mk 3:22-30 Tuesday, January 28: St Thomas Aquinas 2 Sm 6:12B-15,

Prize crossword 0628

January 23, 2020

Cryptic across 5 Cutting hair first, we become Carmelites (11) 7 Is muse of magic lionized? (4) 8 Book airline to Hawaii in front of thousands of queuing British (8) 9 Jacob’s a king, on reflection (6) 11 Aircraft changes heading to see Henry working in the garden, perhaps (6) 12 Clique in Eastern Europe

Heretic of the week: Lorenzo Dow

January 23, 2020

Lorenzo Dow (1777-1834) was the forerunner of that archetype of American frontier lore, the wandering preacher. Born in Connecticut, his early years were plagued by religious controversy, but by 1798 he had joined the Methodists. He started out as a lay preacher in New England, but broke with the Methodist Episcopal Church to go to

‘Farewell great painter…’ Why my favourite epitaph is in a Chiswick churchyard

January 23, 2020

Graveyards are, for those of a sombre bent, a useful way of reflecting on mortality. And the older they are, the better, though there’s an awful melancholy in the number of little graves of children in these places: “died young”, they say with heartbreaking brevity on gravestones in my home cemetery. But being buried in

Christopher Hitchens and the longing ‘for a higher love’

January 22, 2020

What does it mean to state with confidence that you know someone’s disposition at death, especially if he is an avowed and public atheist? This question occurs to me because I have recently read The Faith of Christopher Hitchens by Larry Alex Taunton, published in 2016. The title is slightly misleading – Hitchens was not