On the Sixth Day of Christmas...

It should be our principal business to conquer ourselves and, from day to day, to go on increasing in strength and perfection - St Francis De Sales It's fair to say that most people use today to reflect on the year just gone; the things that we've been successful with and the things that didn't go too...

On the Fifth Day of Christmas...

Amen, amen, I say to thee, When thou wast younger, thou didst gird thyself and didst walk where thou wouldst. But when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another another shall gird thee and lead thee whither thou wouldst not. And...

On the Fourth Day of Christmas...

All the glory of the king's daughter is within golden borders, Clothed round about with varieties. After her shall virgins be brought to the king: her neighbours shall be brought to thee. Today is the feast of the Holy Family and this presents us with the opportunity to recognise that our family stretches...

On the Third Day of Christmas...

But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever: the thoughts of his heart to all generations. To deliver their souls from death: and feed them in famine. Today is the feast of the Holy Innocents which looks at how King Herod ordered all boys under the age of 2 to be killed. He knew that a new King had...

On the Second Day of Christmas...

The reason why sometimes you have asked and not received, is because you have asked amiss, either inconsistently, or lightly, or because you have asked for what was not good for you, or because you have ceased asking. Following on from our blog yesterday looking at the origins of the Nativity...

On the First Day of Christmas...

God is more anxious to bestow His blessings on us than we are to receive them. For it is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings - St Augustine In March 2013 the papal conclave elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio as our new Pope. He took the...

Happy Christmas Everyone!

A light shall shine upon us this day: for the Lord is born to us: and He shall be called Wonderful, God, the Prince of Peace, the Father of the world to come: of whose reign there shall be no end. In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was...