In this column, therefore, I would like each month to pause over one current subject. Sometimes such a subject is offered by the liturgical year, at other times it arises from meeting particular people, from the experience of priestly ministry, or from an event we are living through together.
Do not expect scholarly treatises or simple recipes for life. It will rather be the personal reflection of a man and a priest who is also searching, asking questions and learning to recognise God’s presence even where we might not expect it. I would like to write here about faith and hope, about relationships, forgiveness and reconciliation, about human joy and pain, and also about what is happening in the Church and in society.
I will be glad if for you these words are not merely a text to be read, but above all an invitation to pause for a moment, to look at familiar things from another side, and perhaps to take one concrete step. Sometimes towards God, sometimes towards the person next to us – and best of all towards both at once.