Feasts

Today is the feast-day of a building. It is also, in a special way, our feast-day. How?   Readings: Ezekiel 47:1-2,8-9,12; 1

The Presentation narrative points us backwards and forwards in Scripture. Might this help us ponder its paradoxes?   Reading: Hebrews 2:14-18 The following

By Br Albert Elias Robertson, O.P. | In the first of our Thursday Gospel meditations of the term, Br Albert

By Br Pablo Rodríguez Jordá OP | Br Pablo reflects on Christ as the utterly new event of history in

By Br Bede Mullens, OP | ‘What does it profit me that Christ was born of the Virgin, if he is not

By Br Gabriel Theis, O.P. | The Annunciation of Our Lord presents us with a truth that gives our human existence

By Br Daniel Benedict Rowlands, O.P. | To borrow from St Gregory Nazianzen, in a turn of phrase much loved

By Br Gabriel Theis, O.P. | The Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, which the Church celebrates on the

Today’s solemnity might be thought of as the original feminist feast day: for today we celebrate the Solemnity of St

On 17 March, people across the world will discover their long-forgotten Irish ancestry, or blithely ignore their lack of any

It may seem rather odd, the idea of celebrating the feast of someone’s chair. I suppose, in fact, it is

If somebody closes his eyes and for a moment thinks in a Spanish soldier the resultant image would depict under a characteristic