The power of Jesus to save is utterly certain, since he is living for ever to intercede for all who come to God through him. To suit us, the ideal high priest would have to be holy, innocent and uncontaminated, beyond the influence of sinners, and raised up above the heavens; one who...
Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Certainly no-one there at the time would have known that, but it certainly set the scene for all that was to follow. Even the very human Jesus would have perhaps been unaware of the reality of this spectacular revelation of such a profoundly...
THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS for June 29th, 2017 Thursday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul Liturgical textshere TWOyears ago, I wroteThe Growing Mob.I said then that ‘the zeitgeist has shifted; there is a growing boldness and intolerance sweeping thr...
On the 13thof September 1965, I raised my hand for the first of what would become four swearings-in. The first two were for the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), the second two for the Washington Air National Guard (WANG). To be honest, I don’t remember the first one very much. But ...