Celia Deane-Drummond of the Laudato Si’ Research Institute alerts us to the wake-up call that we are hearing to preserve and celebrate every part of our common home.
As the month of May continues, so too does a month of special devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. With Spring and the promise of new life well under way, the Archives turn once again to the wonderful Blandyke Papers.
I am the gate of the sheepfold [1]. Jesus is our access to where we want to be. He welcomes us, first, to himself. We go in, not brushing past him, but being helped through by him. He is gate and gatekeeper.
Saint Augustine speculated that in heaven the glorified bodies of the martyrs might bear some traces of their sufferings. ‘Such scars will not be blemishes’ he wrote, ‘but, rather, marks of honour.
