Scripture

From St Matthew to St Dominic, this week’s readings in ‘Magnificat’ reveal how grace transforms detours, trials and unexpected choices

Magnificat

From the mustard seed to the miracle of the loaves and fishes, this week’s ‘Magnificat’ invites us to see how lives rooted in prayer quietly bear abundant fruit

Magnificat

The Book of Genesis places light before space and time, while modern physics suggests that ancient sequence may reveal a profound intuition about the architecture of reality

Gavin Ashenden

Augustine found in Psalm 4 a searching account of the restless human heart and the hope that comes only from resting in God, a lesson that still speaks powerfully today

Clement Harrold

Pentecost is not an appendix to Easter but the culmination of Christ’s saving work, drawing believers into his divine life through the Holy Spirit

R. Jared Staudt

Patristic sources, Jewish liturgy, and Scripture point towards an understanding of ‘tongues’ very different from modern assumptions

Philip Blosser

From the Apostles to the modern era, the history of the Church reveals how holy friendships have nourished sanctity and strengthened the Mystical Body of Christ

Clement Harrold

In a sermon on the Beatitudes, Pope Saint Leo the Great sets out what it means to be a peacemaker, linking true peace to obedience to God and the unity of the soul

St Leo the Great

Christ’s Jewishness is not a matter of controversy, but the meaning of that fact is often misunderstood in modern political and theological debate

Luke Collins

In one of the earliest Easter homilies, Melito of Sardis proclaims the risen Christ as conqueror of death, liberator of the bound, and the Passover of our salvation.

Melito of Sardis