Pentecost Sunday Reflection
The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. (John3:8)...
Category: Mass
Vatican Distributes Notes On Cleaning, Protecting Church Objects
By Junno Arocho Esteves – To help prevent damaging artistic and historically significant objects, the Pontifical Council for Culture released suggestions for cleaning and disinfecting church buildings, furnishings and sacred objects. And under no circumstances,...
The Ascension Of The Lord Reflection
But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus appointed them, “And seeing him they prostrated themselves; but some doubted. And, approaching, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “All power in heaven...
6th Sunday of Easter Reflection
Thirty years ago I was travelling with a group of friends returning from celebrating an evening Mass in Edenvale, Johannesburg. I was travelling at about 80 km/h down Langermann drive, a main arterial route...
Public Allowed, With Restrictions, For Mass In Italy Starting Mid-May
By Carol Glatz – The Italian bishops and government have agreed on a protocol to allow the public to be present for liturgical celebrations starting May 18. In an effort to avoid spreading the coronavirus,...
A Name on Every Seat in the Pews
Parishes everywhere are trying to find solutions to the suspension of Mass in this time of lockdown. Fr Francis Onyango Imc of Kwaluseni in Eswatini shares his experience. For many of us, church is...
Saints, New Prefaces for 1962 Roman Missal
By Junno Arocho Esteves – The Vatican doctrinal office announced the optional use of seven eucharistic prefaces as well as the celebration of the feast days of recently canonised saints in the “extraordinary” or...
Palm Sunday Reflection
The act of redemptive and healing love becomes our Rosetta stone for the Jesus event. Let us endeavour to refrain from interpreting the narrative through our familiarity. Rather than money, it is control and...
Vatican approves special ‘Mass in the Time of Pandemic’
By Cindy Wooden – The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments has approved a special “Mass in the Time of Pandemic” to plead for God’s mercy and gift of strength in the midst of...
Religious Find Inventive Techniques Of Caring For Community In Isolation
By Chaz Muth – As people throughout the U.S. self-isolate and retreat from daily life amid the COVID-19 pandemic, priests and women religious have become beacons of hope globally as they mobilize in unconventional...
Fifth Sunday in Lent Reflection
Who am I? To be called by my name, to be known, this is the act of love, an intimate caress that carries us beyond and through death into resurrection. This truly is...
Third Sunday in Lent Reflection
Our journey crossing the desert with Robert Wicks continues on this third Sunday in Lent. Today we are called to the epiphany of wonder and awe, to sit at the edge of mystery and...
