Cathedral News
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Jesus told many parables to describe his heavenly Father. It is all too easy to attribute human qualities to God like those of a stern judge, a tyrannical king or a teacher assigning grades.
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Peter probably thought he was being very generous in suggesting to Jesus that he might forgive his brother seven times. Rabbinical teaching had required only three times.
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Ezekiel was one of the major prophets. He lived in the sixth century BC and was a priest who was attached to the temple staff in Jerusalem.
Saint of the Month: St Wenceslas
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The subject of the popular carol, St Wenceslas is remembered on 28 September.
Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Jesus is beginning to prepare his disciples for his coming death. He must have known that his challenges to the establishment of the day would bring this about.
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
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The reading from Isaiah refers to Shebna, who was the steward of Hezekiah, King of Judah.
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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There seems to be a stark contrast between the reading from Kings and Matthew’s gospel. Elijah found God, not in the violence of natural phenomena, but in the gentle breeze.
Saint of the Month: St Helena
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St Helena was born between 246 and 248 AD. It is thought that she was a Greek and came from Drepanum in the province of Bithynia in Asia Minor, modern Turkey.
The Transfiguration of the Lord
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Richard Dawkins, and many atheists like him, demand physical evidence for anything to be accepted as fact.