Category: Fr John’s Weekly
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The Bible And Me!
The first three chapters of the Bible are about man and woman, you and me, and our turning away from God. It is a powerful story – a myth, which means a story teaching religious truth, and tells us we human beings have chosen to bring evil into God’s good world. We have all “eaten…
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Blessings
Every now and then I catch my breath at how blessed my life has been. It happened again, just before morning mass on 31st December – the feast of Pope St Sylvester. The whole story flooded back . . . Pope Sylvester was the pope of the era of the Emperor Constantine – who gave…
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Memory
Memory is wonderful. We may re-live the days of our lives whenever we choose, returning time and again to the happiest, revisiting the sad days knowing that they are in the past, the worst is over. Do you ever ask yourself about living such days again – a favourite hour, day, holiday, a wonderful year,…
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Kingdoms Of God
“God is the giver of all life, human and divine.” Those words come from the Baptism ceremony in the blessing of the parents. God is the giver of all life. All that is has been created in God’s love. We are made for God. Most of creation cannot know – mountains, seas, the earth –…
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Nuclear Weapon Possession
One of the strangest stories I have heard is that of a man in Hiroshima on the day the atomic bomb was dropped, 6th August 1945, the day of the Transfiguration. The man took a train to Nagasaki the following day (the trains were still running!) and was thus in Nagasaki when the second atomic…
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A Christian Volunteer
Errol writes about his life . . . “I grew up in one of the toughest ghettos in Birmingham – a place called Winson Green. My mother was a single parent and with the help of my grandmother they tried their best to raise me well . . . but they could only teach me…
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A Hail Mary, A Rosary
She was pleasant. Elderly Catholic lady in the hospital, but telling me she had finished with church when she left school. Church and school were combined and she hadn’t really been interested. But she still remembered the Hail Mary, she said, smiling. Strange, she thought, that the words had stayed within her over the years…