Phil
PHILIP NERI:MY SAINT
If I had to choose one saint to pray for me, to look out for me, and to help me not to take myself too seriously, who showed the humorous...
top of page
Search
Phil
- May 18
- 3 min
WAIFS & STRAYS
Back in the Dark Ages, in my home Church were some little purple Lent boxes with a slot for money, inviting donations for “The Church of...
24 views0 comments
Phil
- May 13
- 2 min
May 13, 1917
May 13th, 1917. It was a quiet, ordinary day for three ordinary shepherd children in a quiet, ordinary, insignificant village in rural...
42 views0 comments
Phil
- Apr 5
- 2 min
PETER - "ROCKY"?
A short reflection, as from Peter's perspective on the night Jesus was betrayed by Judas and denied by Peter. Peter: Last night, it...
26 views0 comments
Phil
- Mar 25
- 4 min
MARY OF NAZARETH
Mary of Nazareth, daughter of Joachim and Anna; her name was common enough, that other women of the same name in the gospels had to be...
30 views0 comments
Phil
- Mar 24
- 2 min
ST OSCAR ROMERO
Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez was born in a small village in El Salvador in 1917. Ordained priest, he was known as a quiet and...
16 views0 comments
Phil
- Mar 16
- 4 min
Rabbi Jesus
The Sculptor, Jacob Epstein, was commissioned in 1957 to create a statue of St. Michael the Archangel for the newly rebuilt Coventry...
37 views0 comments
Phil
- Mar 9
- 3 min
THE JEWISH JESUS
JESUS WAS RAISED A JEW BY DEVOUT JEWISH PARENTS He was circumcised according to the Law (The Torah) on the eighth day after his birth...
34 views0 comments
Phil
- Mar 2
- 2 min
THE JEWISH JESUS
JESUS, THE RADICAL RABBI FROM NAZARETH So Jesus wasn’t white, blond, and blue-eyed then!. But surely he looked like Robert Powell’s...
35 views0 comments
Phil
- Feb 25
- 2 min
WILDERNESS
Forty days alone, a wilderness of thoughts, tempting and inviting thoughts, which could so easily have distracted you from your task,...
39 views0 comments
Phil
- Feb 16
- 2 min
WHO THE DEVIL IS IT?
For those of you who like statistics, Satan appears 27 times in nine Old Testament books. Who is Satan? The theologian N. T. Wright...
49 views0 comments
Phil
- Feb 1
- 3 min
FIRED WITH ENTHUSIASM
At one time it was accepted that, if you were asked to give a job reference for someone, only the interviewing panel would read what you...
32 views0 comments
Phil
- Jan 20
- 3 min
SOSTHENES-WHO?
“I, Paul, appointed by God to be an apostle, together with brother Sosthenes, send greetings to the church of God in Corinth.” Last...
42 views0 comments
Phil
- Jan 6
- 2 min
The Door of The Year
Unable to have any children, Frances Chesterton, the wife of G.K. Chesterton, was deeply moved by the image of the Nativity, and wrote...
37 views0 comments
Phil
- Dec 12, 2022
- 1 min
Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe
I have a particular devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, I hope it's not just because she is portrayed more-garishly than other...
33 views0 comments
Phil
- Dec 6, 2022
- 2 min
I BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS
St Nicholas was a real person, born to a wealthy family in Lycia, Asia Minor (now Turkey) sometime between 270 and 280 AD. Today in some...
42 views0 comments
Phil
- Dec 1, 2022
- 3 min
charles de foucauld
Father, I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will. Whatever you may do, I thank you: I am ready for all, I accept all....
46 views0 comments
Phil
- Nov 26, 2022
- 2 min
BROKEN
HAPPY NEW (CHRISTIAN) YEAR on this Advent Sunday. In a poor Middle Eastern village, there was an ancient well, next to which were two...
40 views0 comments
Phil
- Nov 19, 2022
- 3 min
WHY ME?
Having faith in God is easier when all is going well: - when your children are enjoying life and making your life enjoyable as well; -...
67 views0 comments
Phil
- Nov 12, 2022
- 2 min
REMEMBERING-2022
“I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that...
30 views0 comments
bottom of page