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In Elizabethan England it was against the law to practice the Catholic faith. Priests and sympathisers were arrested and treated brutally. Many died terrible deaths for their faith. Ingenious craftsmen were required to design and…
I suppose, when you get right down to it, this story begins with one of the oldest cliches in the book: “There was a girl.” But not just any girl. This girl...this combination of every…
One Sunday, the priest talked about a trip to Galilee. He and a few other priests went to the Sea of Galilee and found an interesting tourist sight. Apparently an ancient fishing boat had been…
Everyone loves Christmas. It’s a time for gifts, singing, merrymaking and feasting. It is a time for family, friends and community. The central focus of the festival is of course the commemoration of the birth…
By Elizabeth Roper This Christmas time my reflection is on the many crises in the world and the opportunity we are given to enact our spiritual callings and apply their ways of being to how…
By Benjamin Fearn As I write this, it’s hard to find the correct balance. Do you be cynical but prepared for when disappointment happens, or do you look forward to things ‘getting better’ and having…
When a party of Christians visited Prophet Muhammad (saw), in Madinah, he invited them, while they stayed, to sleep and say their prayers in the masjid. Sometime before, he had come to Madinah with the…
Author’s Note: The story below is true. Bless you all on this Christmas season and may you each receive a Christmas Miracle. And may we contemplate on that cold starry night the Blessed Mother…
There is an ancient Celtic belief, taught to us by Eriugena, that salvation happened primarily through the incarnation rather than the crucifixion. It was the bringing together of heaven and earth, spirit and matter, creator…
Anecdotes Historically, the focus of pilgrimage has always been about the place to which one was travelling; a holy site or a place connected to a healing miracle or the martyrdom of a saint.1 The…
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