Really Seeing
Are old people wise? Have they learned anything from experience? Or are they all curmudgeons, continually grumbling about the young generation and contrasting it... Read more.
Forgive our Sins as We Forgive
I’ve been hearing confessions, now, for over fifty years, and I have noticed that there is one sin that comes up more than any other; it’s connected to today’s... Read more.
The Entrance of Baptism
A BIBLICAL TEXT can become so familiar that we simply bypass statements that would ordinarily puzzle us. I’m thinking of an aspect of the Gospel of today’s... Read more.
C. S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity and the Puritan Paradigm of Conversion
In a letter of 11 December 1944 C. S. Lewis mentions five “shining examples of human holiness”. Along with Saint Francis, George Herbert, George MacDonald,... Read more.
Waiting for the Real Christmas
I don’t know about you, but I’m already tired of ‘Christmas’. Of course, I am not referring to the real Christmas—the birth of Jesus—but what... Read more.
Keeping Advent Well
Everyone here knows that Advent is the season of waiting. As the readings for the first Sunday indicate, the fundamental characteristic of this time in the Church... Read more.
Lingua Apocalyptica
The biblical texts used at Mass towards the end of the liturgical year are certainly dramatic—with stars falling from heaven and the like—and, it must be said,... Read more.
Gloria in Excelsis Deo
(In light of the memorial of the Guardian Angels, along with the previous feast of the Archangels, here are some words of Father Callum on the hymn myriads of them... Read more.
Evil Intentions
For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil intentions: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander,... Read more.
Faith as Common Sense
(A sermon of Father Daniel Callam for this Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time) A theme common to Ezekiel and Saint Mark, the readings we have just heard, is the... Read more.