Spiritual Life
Offer an open ear to the promptings of your heart
Sunday, January 15th, 2012Second Sunday of the Year: 1 Sm 3:3b-10, 19; Ps 40; 1 Cor 6:13-20; Jn 1:35-42
The saint who warned against the shark of self-love
Monday, January 9th, 2012St Genevieve Torres Morales (January 5) was told she could not join the Carmelites because of a handicap
Daily readings: January 8 – 14
Monday, January 9th, 2012Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
The Light of Christ, however dim and distant it seems, longs to fill our lives with its joy
Monday, January 9th, 2012The Epiphany of the Lord: Is 60:1-6; Ps 72; Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6; Mt 2:1-12
The priest whose preaching was like a ‘spiritual earthquake’
Saturday, December 24th, 2011St Gaspar del Bufalo (December 28)
Beyond the tinsel of Christmas
Saturday, December 24th, 2011The Nativity of the Lord: Is 52:7-10; Ps 98; Heb 1:1-6; Jn 1:1-18 or 1:1-5, 9-1
Mary, the Mother of God: Nm 6:22-27; Ps 67; Gal 4:4-7; Lk 2:16-21Daily readings: December 25 – January 7
Saturday, December 24th, 2011Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
The frail but tireless Sister who worked in the slums of New York
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011St Francesca Cabrini (December 22) became the first American to be canonised in 1946
Daily readings: December 18 – 24
Sunday, December 18th, 2011Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
We can never adequately prepare for the coming of the Lord
Sunday, December 18th, 2011Fourth Sunday of Advent: 2 Sam 7:1-5 & 8-11; Rm 16:25-27; Lk 1:26-38
Comment & Blogs
Today's Catholic must-reads: 08/02/12
By Luke Coppen
Dickens is disappointingly thin - give me AN Wilson anytime
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
If a woman is a priest, she can also be a bishop: if she’s not, she can’t. Either way, there is now only one way out for Catholic Anglicans: it’s over the Tiber
By William Oddie
More than any monarch, Queen Elizabeth II understands the spiritual element of her coronation oath
By Francis Phillips
Despite reports of violence, I feel totally safe walking around Mexico
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/02/12
By Luke Coppen
Is the ‘anthropogenic global warming’ consensus on the point of collapse? If so, this is just the right time for Chris Huhne to leave the Government
By William Oddie
Smacking laws are unworkable products of Left-wing middle class diktat
By Francis Phillips