Coram Fratribus

1 Cor 8.1-13: A man may imagine he understands something Luke 6.27-38: Be compassionate as your Father is compassionate.

Homily preached as part of a retreat given to the clergy of Edmonton. 1 Cor 7.25.31: Our time is growing short Admittedly, there’s something a bit weird about reading an epistle written two thousand years ago that tells us: ‘time is growing short’.

Homily preached as part of a retreat given to the clergy of Edmonton.

For almost a century, the Missionaries of the Holy Family have had a special care for the Catholic community in the Prelature of Tromsø.

Romans 14.7-9: None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.

This striking painting graces the public church of the Carmel in Tromsø.

Any reader of Scripture, anyone whose life is paced by the liturgy, is used to living within a long chronological continuity.

I first encountered Hanns Zischler on the screen as the ambiguous Captain von Lerenau in Europa Europa.

Homily preached in the church of Longyearbyen to commemorate the centenary of the first Catholic Mass offered on Svalbard by Bishop Johannes Olav Smit in August 1926, while we prayed, too, for King Harald, who left this life two days ago, on 27 August.

The tradition of the Church gives us a prayer to recite when death is near and our own words fail us.