“This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” (Mt 17,5) I was only a young boy on that particular day, wandering after the travellers who often passed near our village. I liked to keep a little distance, close enough to see but far enough not to be noticed. That morning, Jesus went up a high mountain with three of his friends. Something in the way they walked made me curious, so I followed. I did not realise that my life was about to change radically.

" You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.” (Mt 4, 7) On Wednesday last we stepped across the threshold of Lent, not into a season of gloom, but into one of the most hope-filled journeys the Church offers us. Lent is an invitation. Like the first breath that God breathed into Adam in the garden, Lent offers us an opportunity for new life, a fresh start, a chance to open our hands and receive again the extraordinary mercy and love that God never stops pouring out upo

Ash Wednesday heralds an adventure into the unknown full of questions and expectations that promise challenge, difficulty, but also great joy. We are invited to make the most wondrous adventure of the year. "Remember you are dust,"  we are told—but oh, what beautiful and splendid dust we are! For forty days, we are called not  to a grim march of deprivation, but to fall into the hands of God with complete abandon. Think of Lent as a small storm, named after you personally. We

Often in life we see only the tip of the iceberg while a whole other world lies beneath the surface. The same is true of every human heart—our own included. We sometimes puzzle over someone’s reaction and think, Where did that come from?  Or we hear ourselves speak and wonder, Why did I say that?  We sense there is more going on than meets the eye. Jesus invites us, lovingly but firmly, to go beneath the surface. He speaks of murder and adultery—clear commandments—but then go

Fortunately, the Light of Jesus continues to shine. It is not a spotlight dazzling us from a distance. It is a living light that warms, guides and quietly changes the world from the inside out. The prophet Isaiah describes this light as one that loosens the chains of injustice, it shares food with the hungry, welcomes the homeless and clothes the naked. Living this way, allows “(Jesus) light to break forth like the dawn.”  The light of Jesus shines whenever love becomes actio