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Perhaps one of the problems with the Pharisees was their overly simplistic approach to their religion. They fasted, they prayed, they gave to good causes and this made them pleasing to God – or so they thought. The state of their heart didn’t appear to matter. As a case in point, the Pharisee in today’s […]

Today’s Gospel contains perhaps some of the most disturbing words in the entire Bible: ‘When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?’ Imagine, if you will, how terrible, how awful it would be if, when the Bridegroom comes for his bride, there were in fact no believers on earth, not a

A recurring theme in Luke’s Gospel is the dangers of wealth. The rich man wasn’t in apart from God simply because he was wealthy but because of his selfish attitude towards the good things he had. He simply didn’t care about the poor — he cared only about himself. It was his selfishness, which set

The heroes of the parable are clear: the wandering, wastrel son and the kind, compassionate father. The parable could almost have finished at verse 24 with the words, ‘So they began to celebrate.‘ Except it doesn’t end there, does it? The remaining eight verses explore the anti-hero of the parable: the crotchety, cantankerous and rather

The theologian Hans von Balthasar wrote a controversial treatise called ‘Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved?’ Having explored this profound theme, he concluded that ultimately all judgement is God’s and God’s alone. The Catholic Church has never made any declarations about whom it thinks will be finally dammed but prays that every human

We have received, through the grace of baptism certainly but also through the grace of revelation, a knowledge or awareness of the mystery of the kingdom of Christ. Giving us this grace and blessing was the Father’s good pleasure. In other words, God the Father delights to give us knowledge, insight and revelation into the