"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
there’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!*” – Hilaire Belloc
* Latin for “Let us bless the Lord”. This phrase is sometimes used as the dismissal at the end of Mass instead of “Ite missa est”.
In our First Reading this week Isaiah consoles Israel, promising a time will come when wrongs will be made right, when “the ears of the deaf [will] be cleared” and the dry lands be refreshed. From the very beginning of the Bible, a Saviour was promised, a Messiah who would heal the rupture between man and God. Isaiah’s words find their fulfillment in this Sunday’s Gospel Reading as Jesus restores a man’s hearing, a sign that the long awaited Messiah had finally come…
