Reflections for Feastdays

Last week we had something of a preview of this, our last Feast of the year, the Feast of Christ the King. Our first reading today is the passage from the book of Daniel (Dn 7:13-14) which links to the gospel of last week in which Jesus talks about himself as that powerful figure arriving

It’s the last day of the year – the Church’s year that is. Next week we start Advent, the build up to Christmas, a new cycle of birth, growth, death, and rebirth. The fact the Church calendar is so out of sync with the rest of our life / world always causes a bit of

This week we celebrate the feast of All Saints. This is a special feast in two ways. First, it is sufficiently important that it outranks Sunday. Most feast-days if they fall on a Sunday get pushed aside. The general principle is that Sunday celebrates the death and resurrection of Jesus and only the most important

In the readings for today’s feast commemorating Saint Augustine, or San Agustin if you prefer the Spanish, there are two discussions about wisdom – which appear, at first, to point in different directions. First there is Paul saying human wisdom is foolish, while Jesus commends the “wise” virgins for their preparedness, a very human form