Church and Life

Christ is Risen. Indeed He is Risen. My soul is consumed with longing for your law at all times. (Ps. 119:20) Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, In the 119th Psalm, we are reminded that God’s Law is a liberating ...

A number of years ago a country student studying at a Catholic boarding school, informed his Housemaster that he had decided not to attend Mass as he felt that compulsory attendance at Mass was an imposition on his basic human ...

The Easter drama contains within it many passionate themes, not the least how the greatest and most honourable man who ever lived, died the death of a base criminal; and how His life was made forfeit in order for a ...

The key to a relationship with God is to be united to the original divine relationship – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In other words it is a relationship with the Holy Trinity. In the old catechisms, ...

Once upon a time in London there was a middle-aged businessman. One morning as he was walking through Westminster, just near Big Ben, he stopped to hear the clock chime eight, but after looking down from consulting the famed clock-face ...

Ukrainian Catholics look at life and God in a different manner to others. We experience church from another perspective as well. While we may all be Christians, or even Catholics, our approach to God and the church is unique. Perhaps ...

The priests of our Eparchy have reported that church attendance this Christmas was better than they had seen in a number of years. For that we thank God. This year Christmas fell on a Sunday. In Victoria, Saturday’s heat wave ...

For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man. (Symbol of Faith) The Church celebrates the coming of the Son ...

Few images in world literature have the ability to burn themselves as indelibly on the psyche of the reader as the crater scene in Erich Maria Remarque’s, Im Westen nichts Neues (1929, Eng. All Quiet on the Western Front), where ...

Fr. Aleksander Men was a Russian Orthodox priest, a biblical scholar and a very prolific writer, –  writes Bisop Peter in Church and Life. He was born in Moscow to a Jewish family. He was, however, baptised six months later ...

On November 26, 1998, the president of Ukraine issued a decree that designated a National Day in Memory of the Victims of the Famine of 1932-33, that is to be marked annually on the fourth Saturday of November. On October ...