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Unbounded love; that is the emotion that oozes out of today’s gospel reading. We have Jesus praying with his apostles as he prepares for his Ascension. Gone is the urgency to impart knowledge to them – they now understand; gone is the frustration of their failure to fathom the depths of the God-made-man before them […]

Today’s gospel is a real game-changer: “A man can have no greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.” This changes so much. Rather than a vengeful God that is out to put his fear into the people as often the Old Testament is interpreted, we have the revelation of the merciful

“Be brave I have conquered the world.” We might look at the world today and despair. I won’t go through the litany of sins that might lead us think that evil might overcome good, but we just have to look at the way we treat each other from conception to natural end in so many

There is something missing. It is the Holy Spirit. That part of God that will invigorate us and our Church to accomplish the will of God. And without the Spirit, the apostles have that great debilitating feeling of loneliness. However much joy they have received from experiencing the resurrected Christ so that they could put

Now I leave the world to go to the Father. We suffer great loss when loved ones depart. It may be that they die, be it suddenly when we feel that they have been ripped from us or may be a long lingering demise where the end is seen as a blessed release, or we

What do you think heaven will be like? For some people it is essential to have a clear idea what heaven will appear like, who will be there, what they shall do, but for me I don’t even think about such matters. They’re not important, because we know that if we are in heaven then

Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation. Whilst Jesus was giving the clarion call to the Apostles, it is a message that rings true for us now as for them with the resurrected Christ. We have been given the greatest gift: faith. We are transformed by our baptism and

One of the differences between the Catholic Church and some of the reformed denominations is the scripture and tradition versus sola scriptura as the basis of the understanding of God’s message. Ironically of course, it was the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that assisted in the early Catholic Church in discerning what was inspired scripture

OK, you’re a disciple of Jesus; what on earth is going through your mind as he says all this! Are you still on the emotional, intellectual and spiritual rollercoaster that has been associated with a whirlwind of ministry, the perceived disaster of the Passover and the joy of the Resurrection? Are you still coming to