Quinquagesima Sunday Reflection

welcome to you my fellow travellers as we journey  on the narrow road to heaven.  A special welcome to our listeners in Christchurch New Zeland on this Lenten season. In this episode we will begin with a meditation on the gospel for Quinquagesima Sunday. After that I’ll tell you a story about a Rock in…

Advent For Devout Catholics

  Our Catholic faith does not leap out of history on Christmas Day nor on Calvary. Our Catholic Religion  began the day our first parents were expelled from the Garden of Eden.  It began with God’s promise of a Redeemer.  God spoke to the serpent: Advent is a time of anticipation in and waiting for…

Reflection: Through the narrow gate

In mediation this morning I went off subject because as I focused on reflecting on the Good Shepherd a picture came to me.  I saw before me an archway and thought of ‘the narrow gate’  Am I getting in through that narrow gate I wondered? I don’t think so.  Not yet.  I see the narrow…

Mary’s Part in Our Redemption

Definition of Redemption We will begin by defining what Redemption really is.  We will come to recognise that to redeem means to buy back and co-redeem means to co-operate in redeeming.    We will then see how  St Raymond, by God’s will and grace, co-operated in Redemption.  Following this we will take a quick look…

Our Paradise Squandered

Our Paradise Squandered -The Sin of Adam In 1906 father William Doyle, an Irish Jesuit went on his yearly ignition retreat. When he had finished. He wrote this in his diary dated, the 25th of November  “In a few, very few years, my name will be forgotten. What would people think of me if they…