We celebrate the Ascension of our Lord. With the word ‘heaven’, I’ll say it right away, don’t start thinking about the hereafter. Jesus did not disappear in one or the afterlife. No, ‘heaven’ is another word for ‘God’, and God is not after this. God is always here and now, Jesus did not go to…
On the first day of the 19th Chapter of the Mill Hill missionaries the assembled delegates were taken on a journey of discovery of Gospel Joy in a day of recollection led by New Testament scholar and Dominican friar, Richard Ounsworth. Sharing elements of his personal search for a meaningful engagement in religious life, Fr…
Speaking about the family, I would like to begin by addressing the young people first. When I think of a model with whom young people can identify with, our Mother, Mary, always comes to mind: her courage, the way she knew how to listen, and her dedication to service. She was courageous and determined to…
Each year on 25 April, the Church celebrates the feast of St Mark. Who is this Mark? He is usually identified with a young man we meet in the Acts of the Apostles. This Mark was a member of the first Christian community in Jerusalem, whose mother offered refuge to Peter when he escaped from…
How To Experience Resurrection Now? In order to come to new life, one must first grow through a grieving process, a process of acceptance and processing of the loss, of the illusion, the actual death experience. Certain affective ties that one had with whom or what one has lost (a person, an ideal concerning one…
One New Testament book is reserved for Easter Day and the following fifty days until Pentecost, and is never otherwise read publicly in Catholic Sunday or weekday liturgies. This book is The Acts of the Apostles. Peter Edmonds SJ invites us to spend some time exploring its background and character as we attempt to grasp…
The Church is cautious with this book. There are only seven occasions when it is an official Sunday reading. The first is on the Feast of Christ the King in Year B of the Sunday cycle. The remainder occur on the Sundays after Easter Sunday in Year C. Let us take these seven readings as our entrance…
On behalf of the Mill Hill Missionaries I wish all visitors to this website – members, benefactors, friends , curious surfers – a graced and joyful celebration of the Easter Event. May you all be given a taste of the new life it signifies. Fons Eppink MHM, webmaster I have the privilege of presiding at…
The celebration at Maryam Nagar, Khipro parish, Sindh Province, Pakistan . A photographic impression.
These reflections written by James Hanvey SJ help us see the Easter story from the point of view of the women who were there. Listen
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