We are approaching Advent and the beginning of the new liturgical year, so there is a deliberate theme of endings to the readings now,...

Today we are blessed to have Joan Marston preaching at the two morning masses. Joan is a lay Canon of Bloemfontein and Blackburn...

The Gospel today is pretty shocking, and typical of the grammatical style of Mark. The events and teachings recorded by Mark are meant to...

It’s probably not unreasonable to walk into a battle which you are almost certainly going to lose and to forget what you have been told...

Adam sounds just like a teenager when God introduces him to Eve: This is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. ‘We were made for...

Today’s Gospel invites us all to make two decisions. Each of these decisions threatens to overturn our whole life and our whole normal...

Usually, telling somebody not to tell other people about what you are about to do to them or with them is a bit of a worry, to say the...

Take one thing away, and the total effect can often be spoiled for many of us. It doesn’t need to be a big thing even, but its removal is...

Doing things that we don’t particularly want to do is one of the markers of a civilised society I think, and the lack of doing so is one...

Maybe we missed it the first time, so Mark, evangelist of few words, repeats it, just in case – let us go away to a quiet place and be by...