Oh, the irony of fate… The central theme of this Sunday’s reading is hospitality and bang on cue my hermit-like life has been thrown into disarray by a procession of visitors, different ones each day this weekend. So, firstly I had to tidy up my flat to make it visibly hospitable. The living room and the dining table were of…

Apparently, one of the signs of getting old is moaning about the overall demise of the world and claiming that it was better in the past. I think it’s nonsense but – truly – music was much better in the 1980s than now… Another thing that was better in the past is quite a specific attitude in football. When a…

It was a meteoric rise, from zero to hero – or to 362 subscribers (to be precise) in a few weeks. That number could be legitimately multiplied by 2 or 3 as a big chunk of the audience likely consisted of families rather than individuals. As a little-known local priest in a relatively insignificant city parish, who had regularly lulled…

An American actor with a cringe-worthy Scottish accent provided an entire generation of Scots with visuals and a battle cry supporting their cause for an independent Scotland. The 1995 film “Braveheart” was a massive success because of the gripping way it told the story of William Wallace, but also because it had a very clear main thread: freedom. Even those…

I doubt that anyone here remembers that in my sermon delivered half a year ago, on Sunday of the Holy Family, I referred to the James Webb Space Telescope. At that time, it was very topical (it had just been launched into space) and I found the story of its creation a useful analogy for the subject of my sermon.…