Fr. Brian’s Blog

…there in truth something like a liberation occurs:  the stepping out into the open under an endless sky, not only for the creative artist himself but for the beholder as well, even the most humble.  Such liberation, such foreshadowing of the ultimate and perfect fulfillment, is necessary for man, almost...

You cannot finish a sum how you like. But you can finish a story how you like. When somebody discovered the differential calculus there was only one differential calculus he could discover. But when Shakespeare killed Romeo he might have married him to Juliet’s old nurse if he had felt...

She was stripped of all enchantment now and I knew her for an uncongenial stranger to whom I had bound myself indissolubly in a moment of folly. ~Evelyn Waugh~ Last week the news media erupted with the announcement from the Vatican that Pope Francis had taken steps to simplify and...

We have been instructed in these matters and filled with unshakable faith that that which seems to be bread, is not bread, though it tastes like it, but the Body of Christ, and that which seems to be wine, is not wine, thought it too tastes as such, but the...