In the little town of Chamonix in the French Alps there is a monument to two men, Jacques Balmat and Horace-Benedict Saussure. Balmat was a mountain guide and Saussure was an acclaimed scientist, whose name made all the newspapers. Yet the monument contains both figures because the great scientist could never have made his way …
It was with sadness that we heard yesterday about the death of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI. Widely recognized as one of the great spiritual leaders of our time, he will be remembered for his years of service as a priest, bishop, and as pope. As we reflect on his life at this time, I was …
Fr Jeremiah Browne (National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies) I love a good bargain. I’m in my element when I’m in a market somewhere and I can wrangle over the price of a particular item, and I won’t give in easily. In today’s first reading, (Genesis 18:20-32) we meet Abraham, whom it seems has …
“A Christian always brings peace… This is the distinctive sign: the Christian is a bearer of peace, because Christ is peace. From this, we can recognize whether we are his. If instead we spread gossip and suspicions, create divisions, hinder communion, place our own belonging before all else, we do not act in the name …
“Let us help one another to be leaven in the dough of this world. Together we can and must continue to care for human life, the protection of creation, the dignity of work, the problems of families, the treatment of the elderly and all those who are abandoned, rejected or treated with contempt. In a …
Fr Jeremiah Browne (National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies) Do you ever hear yourself talking about people who are different from you and using words life “they” or ‘those people” or in a conflict situation reverting to a phrase like “you people”? This kind of language is basically an “us” verses “them” way of …
Homily – 15th Sunday – C- 2022 – Fr Jerry Browne Read More »
“Sometimes there is the risk of confining the Eucharist to a vague, distant dimension, perhaps bright and perfumed with incense, but rather distant from the straits of everyday life. In reality, the Lord takes all our needs to heart, beginning with the most basic… We can evaluate our Eucharistic adoration when we take care of …
“Every man and every woman are like tesserae (tiles) in an immense mosaic; they are already beautiful in their own right, but only together with other tesserae do they compose an image, in the conviviality of differences. Being convivial with someone also means imagining and building a happy future with the other. Indeed, conviviality echoes …
Homily 14th Sunday C – 2022 (Fr Jeremiah Browne National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies) In preparation for the recent beatification of Blessed Pauline Jaricot, the founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, a group known as the ‘Friends of Pauline Jaricot’ commissioned an iconographer by the name of Laurence Pierson-Bonenberger …
“Everyone’s talents and involvement are needed to redress the damage caused by human abuse of God’s creation. All of us can cooperate as instruments of God for the care of creation, each according to his or her own culture, experience, involvements, and talents.” Pope Francis ***************** Please consider praying a decade of the rosary on …
