Marmite and Bovril are two British delicacies which have a particular flavor not given to all to enjoy. Yet the need for the Gospel to, as it were, “pack a punch,” involves the message having a discernible flavor. This week we explore how St. Paul’s famous words about being “all......
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Sometimes Church leaders think their words on almost any issue are still greeted with the respect they possibly enjoyed one hundred years ago: that is not the case. The “world,” as Scripture calls it, has its place for useful idiots, but we are not “of the world.” This week, St.......
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We’ve just celebrated the Conversion of St. Paul, one of the greatest saints who ever lived. Paul, as with all the saints, is both an inspiration and a model. Intensely human, sometimes controversial and even difficult, he gives us all hope. This week we look at two ways St. Paul......
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At the centre of the “theophany” at Cana in Galilee is the figure of Mary, the model disciple. Our nugget this week looks at Mary’s faith as something we should imitate. Her faith was not blind, but trusting, from the Annunciation to Calvary. We must listen and practice her words:......
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The author Tom Holland, who wrote the excellent book ‘Dominion,’ about the Christian foundation of western civilisation, was recently asked about proclaiming the Gospel to a culture that has no concept of basis Christian beliefs. He highlighted the western concept of human rights as a good starting point. In this......
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