Dear Brothers and Sisters, When we are given some good news, it is hard to keep it a secret.  You have just found out that you have got the job you have been seeking for a long time; you have just been unexpectedly promoted; the exam that you thought you had flunked...

Dear Sisters and Brothers, At this time of the year we often talk in terms of beginning our Lenten Journey.  It is good to make a simple point that by beginning a journey we hope that when we finish it we are in a different place or at least in a different state...

Dear Brothers and Sisters, This year we have a good long Advent, as long as it can be; four whole weeks representing, so we are told, the four thousand years that passed between the Fall of Adam and Eve and the Coming of the Promised Messiah in the birth of Jesus...

Dear Brothers and Sisters, It is not unusual today to hear people profess that although they are spiritual they are not religious.  Or to declare that they have faith but do not have anything to do with the Church or churches.  Whereas we are about to stand and...

Dear Sisters and Brothers, How many times have I heard myself saying something like, “If only I had listened properly in the first place, I wouldn’t find myself in such a mess?”  I could be halfway through what at first seemed to be a very straight forward operation,...