Faith of my father A memorial: My father's Christian example had a great impact on my own walk with Jesus and on my priestly vocation.
With all the saints in every place: Ineluctable ecumenism Communion with God and one another is at the heart of apostolic faith.
Am I ready to die? The diagnosis came like a bolt from the blue. As a priest, I have regularly been near death and dying, but I found myself unprepared for the inevitable in my case.
Graveyard homes My wife and I are raising our two sons in a graveyard. For the churchyard is clearly a place for the living, as well as the dead.
Dead and gone? Our concept of communion with the departed is anchored in our theology of Baptism. Baptism begins eternal life.
Toward Convention III: celebrating the saints In the 1990s, the liturgical calendar began to become a political football.