Fourth Sunday of Lent – 30 March 2025   There are two very distinct images of the need for conversion in this Gospel passage. The restlessness, the hungers of the…

Second Sunday of Lent – 16 March 2025   Part of the honest look at our lives that Lent is meant to be is the simple realisation that some of…

The story of the temptation of Christ in the desert is classic Lenten reading. Each of the temptations that come to Christ, as is each that comes to us, was…

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 8 March 2025   This First Reading is taken from what is called the Wisdom Literature. Wisdom, in Hebrew and early Christian thought, was…

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – 23rd February 2025   This weekend St Luke continues his revelation of the core of Christian morality begun last week with the Beatitudes, and…

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 16th February 2025   This is one of two places in the Gospels that record the Beatitudes. The other, in Matthew’s Gospel, is a…

Each of these three readings deals in one way or another with someone’s experience of having been called by God, interrupted by God, and set by him to the accomplishment…

Homily – Presentation of the Lord – 2nd February 2025 It was a precept of the law of the law of Moses that the firstborn male offspring of everything alive,…

Paul, in the second reading, speaks of the interconnectedness of God’s people, all of them bound together with an intimacy so intense, so central to the reality of God’s people,…

Baptism of the Lord – 12th January 2025   The First Reading, a passage from the book of the prophet Isaiah, is sort of the final commentary on Christmas.  Why…