Homily – 3rd Sunday Ordinary Time – 22nd January 2023
Even for St. Paul, it is simply part of the human experience that something which can seem to start off so well, so simply, can get so mixed up and…
Homily – 2nd Sunday Ordinary Time – 15th January 2023
The Gospel reading this weekend centres again on the compelling of John the Baptist. As usual, John had quite a crowd gathered about him, and when he saw Christ coming…
Homily – Baptism of the Lord – 8th January 2023
The liturgical readings shift focus now, and we are confronted with the image not of a child but of a full-grown man. The revelation now is not so much who…
Homily – Mary, The Mother of God – 1st January 2023
In some ways, New Year’s Eve and Day is a hectic time of in the days after the great feast of Christmas. There is always a lot of frantic celebrating…
Christmas Homily 2022
It is good for you and me to remain near the crib – to be charmed by the Christ Child, to be warmed by His mother’s love. But we also…
Homily 4th Sunday of Advent – 18th Dec 2022
In the Gospel, the figure of Joseph offers us a powerful Advent prophecy this weekend. Joseph’s wait was different from that of the others. For him, the reality of God…
Homily – 3rd Sunday of Advent – 11th Dec 2022
Most of us old enough to drive, have had had the experience of absent-mindedly getting into our car, and arriving at a destination with no recollection of the journey. That…
Homily 2nd Sunday of Advent – 4th December 2022
John the Baptist must have been a strange man. Certainly, he was a driven man, and when a person is as strongly driven as that, all that is important is…
Homily 1st Sunday of Advent – 27th November 2022
If there is any one insight into the nature of things that is common to everyone it would have to be that the world is imperfect. Just experience teachers us…
Homily – Christ the King – 20th November 2022
This feast marks the end of the Church year, the closing of the liturgical calendar. Next Sunday we will begin again the Season of Advent and with that the full…