It is good for us to be here – here where all things shine with divine radiance, where there is joy and gladness and exultation; where there is nothing in our hearts but peace, serenity and stillness; where God is seen. (Saint Anastasius of Sinai, +ca. 700)
Day: August 6, 2025
Pope Saint John Paul II and the Transfiguration
21st ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF PAUL VIHOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL IIFeast of the Transfiguration of the Lord Friday, 6 August 1999 Today, the Eucharist which we are preparing to celebrate takes us in spirit to Mount Tabor together with the Apostles Peter, James and John, to admire in rapture the[…]
Transfigured Unto Divine Glory
A blessed and grace-filled feast of the Transfiguration to all our readers, when Christ allowed the Apostles – Peter, James and John – to ‘see His glory’, His true nature as the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. We should recall that Christ was not a human person, but a divine one, uniting Himself to[…]
Eighty Years Since Hiroshima
As well as being the feast of the Transfiguration, and the anniversary of the death of Pope Paul VI, this day also has the sombre 80th anniversary of the first of two uses – and so far only, praise God – of nuclear weaponry in war: On August 6th, 1945, ‘the bomb’, as it was[…]