Behold I stand at the door and knock...

This podcast attempts to offer a way in which we as Catholics can pray when 15 people were killed last Sunday on Bondi Beach. Echoing the words of Archbishop Fisher of Sydney, a great evil has visited our nation. Our faith does not explain why it happened apart from recognising that evil exists and will be active until Christ comes again. However, the holy scripture of today's Mass offers how we can pray and even what we can pray for.

Eternal rest give to all those who were killed, O Lord, and let perpetual life shine upon them. Amen.

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The Collect of this Sunday's Mass places together "solemn worship" and "glad rejoicing". What is this kind of joy that is compatible with solemn worship?

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Two important aspects of this podcast: an idea that is theological and important to understand our salvation, and another which is a timely message for our day.

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This First Sunday of Advent reminds us of the final coming of Christ, when He will come to judge the living and the dead. The Lord Jesus calls us to vigilance, which is being in a state of readiness by living in truth and virtue and by faith.

Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus.

The image used is Ercole Ramazzani, “The Last Judgment,” 1597 (public domain)

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Pope Pius XI instituted this Feast of Christ the King* in 1925. Of course, the Pope wasn't inventing anything new; that's not the way Popes operate, or shouldn't. The Pope is the guardian of the deposit of faith but at times in history a Pope has had to, for various reasons, make explicit what has always been believed.

 Often the best way to do that, is to enter the dogma into the sacred liturgy through a feast day.

Christ said Himself that He was a king, and for this He entered the world, when He was being interrogated by Pontius Pilate. So it was not invented by any member of the Church at any time in history.

Today's feast calls us to honour our King, give Him our homage, and to be faithful to His rule.

As the Cristeros of Mexico shouted when they were fighting against a godless and masonic government, in the same decade of the 1920's 

VIVA CRISTO REY!

* I made an error in the podcast by naming Pope Benedict XV as doing this. My apologies.

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The basilica that we honour today has an interesting history as well as being of high significance for us all around the world. I hope you will enjoy learning about its history and, perhaps, being reminded of the spiritual significance of our holy buildings, of which this one has a unique place.

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These two important and great days that herald the beginning of the month of November, the month of the Holy Souls, are worthy of our attention together this year because one falls on a Saturday and one on a Sunday. Not just for that reason though, together they tells us about who we are and where we are going. They remind us also of the doctrine of the Communion of the Saints on earth, in heaven and in purgatory. 

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The parable of the pharisee and the tax collector (or publican) is again a parable about prayer but also a parable about the sin of pride and the virtue of humility. Pride leads to be being happy about oneself and the humility leads to being at rights with God. The latter is what we should be striving towards.

The image used in this podcast is "The Pharisee and the Publican" by James Tissot painted somewhere between 1886 and 1894. It is the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York.

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The title of this podcast might have you wondering, particularly if you have looked at the readings for this Sunday's Holy Mass. If you listen you will see how the necessary reverence shown to the Blessed Sacrament fits within the question that Our Lord poses at the end of this Sunday's gospel.

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Amazing Grace is the title and first words of a well-known hymn, composed by John Newton. Its appeal goes wide among Christians. I have called this podcast after the hymn, not because I want to talk about it, or its composer, but rather because the Collect of today's Mass prays to God for grace to accompany us. So, I thought a teaching about grace would be in order. I find many Catholics do not fully understand the splendour, the power nor the amazing nature of grace.

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