Recently I’ve replaced the carpet in my sitting room. Mainly because it was completely worn out and due to be replaced. Secondly, because I had quite a collection of planks I’d taken out of my eyes; it would have been wasteful to simply throw them away. Now my sitting room looks better with the new floor and I’ve incidentally produced…

‘If you want something done ask a busy person.’ This popular saying seems to be counter-intuitive. But its popularity is in itself a proof of its veracity. Busyness is quite commonly considered a sign of the right attitude, responsibility for one’s own life and so on. Busy people usually are reliable, because they have developed all the necessary skills to…

I’m Father Tad. T-A-D. I’m not Father Ted. That’s a completely different character (I hope). From my accent you can rightly guess that’s I’m ‘nae Scottish’; or – to be more precise – neither was I born nor brought up in Scotland. But, according to my DNA research, I’m 11.3 percent Scottish. Is that good enough? Well, I hope so.…

‘This was the first of the signs given by Jesus: it was given at Cana in Galilee.’ In other words, Jesus had performed his first miracle. And what was that miracle? Turning water into wine. Some people might say: a shortage of wine at a wedding is a first-world problem… The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke are full of…

‘Mission accomplished’ could have been the exclamation of John the Baptist, had he been familiar with our modern expressions. From its very beginning, even in the womb, his entire life was dedicated to ‘preparing the way for the Lord’ and announcing the arrival of the long-awaited Messiah. The baptism of Jesus in the river Jordan is the official beginning of…