Moses needed some time to convince his compatriots in Egypt to leave that country and return to the land of their ancestors: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Initially they were pretty reluctant, moving towards hostility when Pharaoh made their lives harder in response to Moses’ demands for freedom. But his endurance and perseverance, mixed with cleverness and strong beliefs, eventually won…
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It’s been a rather poor season this year for Andy Murray, our Scottish tennis player – if he were successful he would a British – seemingly sealed by his recent defeat at the US Open. But despite losing to Novak Djokovic his game was actually complimented by many commentators as of high quality, particularly in comparison with his earlier defeats.…
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Sadistic. Sectarian. Barbaric. Savage. Bloodthirsty. These and many other similar words have been used recently throughout the media reporting on the current situation in the Middle East. Human nature is showing its ugly side in a dreadful and direct manner. To make it even worse, it’s all being done in the name of God and his Will by people with…
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A few weeks ago, on Trinity Sunday, in my sermon I used a comparison of multiple identities of myself to illustrate that aspect of our faith: one God in three Persons. When I was delivering that sermon at Masses, I realised that some people might have read that as my stance regarding the referendum on Scottish independence – which was…
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For the last two Sundays, some of you spotted two unfamiliar boys serving at Mass. They came here with their parents, friends of mine, and the whole family visited Scotland for the first time. They hadn’t known much about the people living here so they had had some mildly stereotypical views of Scots and of the country. But once they…