Catholic Homilies By Fr Linus Clovis

The votive mass for our Blessed Lady in the Easter season from St. Johns Gospel uses the narrative of Calvary. We’re told by the cross of Jesus stood His Mother, His Mother’s sister Mary of Cleopas and Mary Magdalene. Then we’re told that Jesus, seeing His Mother and the disciple whom He loved standing next to her, said ‘Woman behold your son’ and to the disciple ‘Behold your mother’ and from that moment the disciple made a place for her in his home. Everything our Blessed Lord did whilst on earth is full of mystery and full with innumerable teachings for our mediation and for our spiritual growth. We can never exhaust this rich wine to which He has invited us. We as Catholics have been chosen by God, not because we have done anything special, but because He wants us to do something special for the world in which we live. In other words, we are servants who have been given a responsibility. This does not, and should not make us proud. Our Lord said to His disciples ‘When you have done all the things