Ruminations of an Irascible Hermit.

As St Teresa of Avila teaches us - self knowledge is very important in the spiritual life. We need to understand ourselves, know who we are,...

These beautiful words of advice are from the Proslogion of St Anselm that was part of the Office of Readings for today.  In the busyness and...

As we are almost ending the first week of Advent, you may have noticed a change in the tone of the readings and prayers this week. There has...

In two of the options for the Office of Readings today (one from St Macarius for Ordinary time, the other from St Columbanus for his optiona...

As Catholics we can often feel so helpless over the current political or economic situation of the world that we don't have the strength...

Today the Church gives us the wonderful Solemnity of Christ the King.  You may hear various homilies today about Jesus the King of the Unive...

St Josemaria refers to not caring what other people think about you as “holy shamelessness” - not having any fear of shame from others becau...

  When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd (Matt 9:36) Do ...

Today is All Souls Day, the day of the faithful departed. The Church gives us this day to pray for all the Christians who have died during t...

For many of us we associate the saints as being people we look up to or aspire to be like. More often than not, the saints can appear distan...