Sep 30
The 16th Sunday of Trinity Luke 17;5-10 People today are constantly searching for the truth, about Life, Death, about relationships with neighbours as well as the truth about God, Jesus and the Spirit, and how to make sense of it all. Well-meaning Christians often urge the reading of the Bible to help. Yes, the Bible …
Sep 25
The 15th Sunday of Trinity Luke 16;19-31 There are no poor people in heaven, only “the spirits of righteous men made perfect”, as the the Letter to the Hebrews puts it. The parable of Dives and Lazarus in our Gospel reflection, says only what pious Jews of Jesus’ time believed anyway. We often say, parables …
Sep 18
The 14th Sunday of Trinity Luke 16;1-13 Many seminarians will remember the parable of the Unjust Steward, so often described in commentaries as difficult to explain with its ironical tone. Even the steward’s descriptions vary from text to text. Sometimes called, unjust, dishonest or even a shrewd bailiff. It is certainly not like most of …
Sep 09
The 13th Sunday of Trinity Luke 15;1-10 Take twenty people, ask them what God is like, and you’ll get at least twenty different opinions. My guess is that for many people, childhood images of him will still loom large. A rather remote, aloof being, with a great long beard, sitting on a throne way above …
Sep 04
The 12th Sunday of Trinity Luke 14;25-43 Looking at Luke’s Gospel passage for the first Sunday of September, just days after our NCC conference in Norway had ended, I realised both shared the same theme of “discipleship and counting its cost”. Jesus said, “whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be …
Aug 30
On Saturday August 27th 2022, the first baptisms were held in the community of Rožňava in Slovakia, when two little boys, Teodor and Matteo, were baptised by Fr. Zoltán Drenkó, surrounded by family and friends. The joyful ceremony took place in the community’s new chapel (acquired by rent), in the building of a former Franciscan …
Aug 27
The 11th Sunday of Trinity Luke 14;1,7-14 In this week’s Gospel reflection, Jesus is an invited guest for a Sabbath meal in a Pharisee’s house, when He criticises the other guests because they are all jostling for the best places. It’s pretty clear that the Pharisee had invited all his cronies along for the meal, …
Aug 20
The 10th Sunday of Trinity Luke 13;10-17 Countries like Norway, France, Holland, Belgium and Britain, and many others who fought together against the evil teachings of Adolf Hitler constantly relied on listening to the secret radio broadcasts which the Allies, made to each other. Owning a wireless (as these were then called), was punishable by …
Aug 13
The Dormition of the Mother of God Luke 14;39-56 The 15th August has since the late 5th century been a day when the Christian Church has expressed profound respect and devotion to Our Saviour’s own mother. In the summer this devotion focuses on the end of her life, of which there is no record, in …
Aug 11
7. Sunday after Trinity Luke 12;13-21 The abolition of man is the title of a lecture given by C.S. Lewis in 1943 in which he claimed that attempting to do away with a spiritual dimension and an agreed moral order to life would mean a culture overwhelmed with the domination of destructive impulses that end …
Jul 24
6. Sunday after Trinity Luke 11;1-13 Ask any priest and he could tell you horror stories about the state of family life in much of the western world today. May I recall a couple from my own experience? The husband who told his pregnant wife that he didn’t want children and that the child wasn’t …
Jul 17
5. Sunday after Trinity Luke 10;38-42 At the end of the tenth chapter of St. Luke’s gospel we have a few homely verses telling of the welcome into a home that Jesus has received from a “certain woman in a certain village”. This was however no ordinary home, it was the home of Lazarus and …
Bishop Roald Nikolai Flemestad remains Bishop Delegate of the Union of Scranton for Europe also after the transfer of the Nordic Catholic Diocese of Scandinavia to his successor Bishop Ottar Mikael Myrseth. He will then continue to give episcopal oversight to the work and mission of the Nordic Catholic Church in Continental Europe and the United Kingdom.
The Bishop's Seal and Motto
Per timorem Domini et
sancti Spiritus consolationem.
The Bishop's Calendar
17 September
National Investiture in Oslo, The Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem.
29 September-2 October
Church Wedding in Schongau and gatherings in Kaufbeuren..