The final day of Glastonbury Festival 2025 will see Olivia Rodrigo headline the Pyramid Stage at the same time as The Prodigy perform on The Other Stage. Sir Rod Stewart is performing the legend’s slot, more than 20 years after he last performed at the festival as headliner. There is plenty more to see, including...
Note: There are two sets of readings for this weekend’s Masses for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. The Saturday Vigil Mass uses John 21:15-19 for the Gospel reading, while the Sunday Masses use Matthew 16:13-19. My reflection today will be on the Saturday readings, since I attend that Mass and generally write these...
This morning’s Gospel reading is Luke 9:11b–17: Jesus spoke to the crowds about the kingdom of God, and he healed those who needed to be cured. As the day was drawing to a close, the Twelve approached him and said, “Dismiss the crowd so that they can go to the surrounding villages and farms and...
This morning’s Gospel reading is John 16:12–15: Jesus said to his disciples: “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and...
This morning’s Gospel reading is John 14:15–16, 23b–26: Jesus said to his disciples: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always. “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we...
This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 16:15–20: Jesus said to his disciples: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they...
This morning’s Gospel reading is John 14:23–29: Jesus said to his disciples: “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; yet the word you hear is not mine...
This morning’s Gospel reading is John 13:31–33a, 34–35: When Judas had left them, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and God will glorify him at once. My children, I will be with you...
This morning’s Gospel reading is John 10:27–30: Jesus said: “My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one can take them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one...
Pope Leo XIV appealed for “no more war” in a message to world powers during his first Sunday address at the Vatican. The Pope also recited the Regina Caeli prayer, in honour of the Virgin Mary, to the crowd in St Peter’s Square. Thousands of worshippers turned out to see the new pontiff, greeting his...
Pope Leo XIV will give his first Sunday blessing and address to a crowd in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican today. He will recite the Regina Caeli prayer, in honour of the Virgin Mary, in his first public address since his election was announced with white smoke on Thursday. After delivering Sunday mass, Pope...
Note:I had intended to write a new reflection for this weekend, but my main computer stopped working on Friday night. Instead, I hope you will enjoy this reflection from 2016, and keep that timing in mind when I write about the film ‘Risen’ I still highly recommend it, too. This morning’s Gospel reading is John...
This morning’s Gospel reading is John 20:19–31: On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his...
Pope Francis’s last public appearance was for an Easter Sunday blessing at the Vatican’s St Peter’s Square. It had been unknown at the time if the pontiff would join the service following his discharge from hospital last month, after five weeks of treatment for an infection that led to double pneumonia. He has died at...