Medley Minute with Fr Sam

Today is the Feast of the Glorious Archangels, Sts Michael, Rafael, Gabiel, and the other four unnamed that stand before the throne of God o...

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The King of Salem was a priest named Melchizedek. It was from him that the patriarch Abraham received a covenantal blessing. Salem means p...

In today's readings for Mass we read: Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am intensely jealous for Zion, stirred to jealous wrath for her. Th...

A priest was celebrating his 60th anniversary. I knelt down and said, "Father, I really need your blessing." When I opened my eyes...

I recently visited St Patrick's in Soho, London, which has undergone a massive renovation. Churches like this are a testimony to peop...

You have heard it before. Perhaps from the guy at the local shop, or from your fundamentalist family member, or from someone who calls them...

In the readings for today's Mass , Jesus warns us not to hide our light under a bushel basket. He is not simply saying that we shouldn...

Before looking at the corrected translation let's look at the Gospel for today . Blessed Pope John Paul in his exhortation for the lay ...

There are many wonderful programmes for young people to teach them about living the Gospel in their human relationships. However, what the ...

Blessed Pope John Paul said that Jesus Christ has a living dialogue with a person about their body. He called this "A Theology of ...

How blessed are the poor in spirit, the kingdom of heaven is theirs! Pope Sts Cornelius and St Cyprian, two glorious martyrs in the ancien...

St Aenswythe was the granddaughter of the first Christian King of Kent, St Aethelbert, who was baptized by St Augustine of Canterbury in 601...

In a wedding, a priest stands in the place of God who witnesses man gift himself to woman and woman offer herself to man. Just as Christ sa...

Verbum Domini. The Word of the Lord. Deo Gratias. Thanks be to God. These are the corrected translations that we will now use in the M...

In today's readings for Mass , we see that Jesus healed the man with the withered hand, yet had to pay the price for it by drawing down ...

This is the second in a four part series to help the faithful transition to the corrected translation of the Mass. Listen to my homily he...

Pope St Gregory the Great faced bands of roving hoards of robbers and pagan tribes which sought to utterly destroy any order of society. Wh...

St Margaret Ward was martyred on August 30th, and on this day we celebrate her feast day. Like, St Margaret Clithero , she was a faithful ...

On this feast of the beheading of St John the Baptist, the readings for Mass show us to stand up to the dictatorship of relativism, which h...

This Sunday, we begin in our parish, a four-part catechesis on the corrected translation of the Mass. The Readings for Mass point out t...

I don't know how many times I hear it. "My son used to be an altar boy. My daughter used to love to go to Mass. They don't p...

In the Old Testament, there is a clear reason why adultery and idolatry always are put together (Eg. Exod. 24:7; Deut. 5:27; Josh. 24:14-25)...

In today's readings for Mass we hear: The Kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bri...