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…

Christmas Vigil/Day – 24th/25th December 2024   Truly this is a Holy Night.  In the lean and simple language of the evangelist Luke, we have heard retold the ageless Christmas…

Homily 4th Sunday of Advent – 22nd December 2024 It is a puzzling image with which to bring the Season of Advent to a close, this journey Mary makes. It…

Homily 3rd Sunday of Advent – 15th December 2024 For the last few weeks, the Gospel has practically trumpeted out the words of St. John the Baptist, “Prepare the way…

Homily 2nd Sunday of Advent – 8th December 2024 In the second reading, St Paul prays for our growth in goodness, in perfect goodness, a virtue based on abundant understanding…

Homily 1st Sunday of Advent – 1st December 2024 It is not going to be easy to put together an authentically spiritual observance of Advent; Christmas season is has already…