Spirituality

Keeping Christ company on Maundy Thursday

Let us adore and love this Jesus, whose love for us was not satisfied unless he drank, to the very dregs, the Chalice he had accepted from his Father.

Apr 2 • Michael Haynes

Annunciation: a commentary on St Luke's Gospel

Father Thomas Crean's insight into the Annunciation account in the Scriptures highlights the dignity of Mary as befits her status as Mother of God.

Mar 25 • Fr Thomas Crean

St. Alphonsus sermon: On the delusions of sinners

"The Devil brings sinners to hell by closing their eyes to the dangers of perdition."

Feb 18 • Michael Haynes

We Come to Adore

Homily for the Epiphany

Published on Dom Pius Mary Noonan • Jan 6

Mary's love for her Son on Christmas night

“She adores, takes him into her arms, presses him to her heart, swathes his infant limbs and lays him down in the manger.”

Dec 24, 2025 • Michael Haynes

Advent begins and Christmas awaits

Advent marks the time when one can be formed in a spiritual knighthood, in the manner of the medieval squires.

Nov 30, 2025 • Michael Haynes

Mary's sorrows in the month of September

We can therefore say that Mary, on account of the love she bore Him, was in heart, during the Passion of her Son, struck, scourged, crowned with thorns…

Sep 4, 2025 • Michael Haynes

Transfiguration shows the Heavenly glory of Christ on Earth

'The mystery of the Transfiguration is wrought in our souls already here on earth'

Aug 6, 2025 • Michael Haynes

Cardinal Burke: The Eucharist shows Christ as King

'The social nature of Christ's Kingship is manifested most fully in the Eucharistic Sacrifice' Cardinal Burke noted.

Jun 19, 2025 • Michael Haynes

Bishop Schneider on Pentecost: ‘there is only one Church of God’

The bishop delivered his Pentecost homily during the annual Latin Mass pilgrimage to Chartres, for 19,000 people.

Jun 10, 2025 • Michael Haynes

Maundy Thursday: What is Christ's love we are called to imitate?

St. John admonishes that we must “not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.”

Apr 17, 2025 • Michael Haynes

St. Joseph: Patron of the house at Nazareth and the Church today

St. Matthew’s Gospel records how St. Joseph “did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him” – a phrase not just applicable to his decision to take the…

Mar 19, 2025 • Michael Haynes

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