Homily Christ the King 26th November 2023 It is certainly no accident that the image that is selected for the last Sunday of the liturgical year, the image that is…

Homily 33rd Sunday OT 19th Nov 2023 This weekend the scriptural readings begin to sort of prime us, lead us into the coming Advent experience of waiting. And the readings…

Homily 32nd Sunday Ordinary Time – 12th November 2023 Of all the ways that the authors of scripture could think of to praise their heroes, kings, prophets, judges, it seems…

Homily 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 29th October 2023 There is probably nothing that a person can do that can so quickly bring to the surface all of one’s…

Homily 29th Sunday Ordinary Time – 22nd October 2023 There is something about the kind of prophecy being offered in the first reading this weekend that seems a little farfetched,…

Homily 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 15th October 2023 Today’s first reading and Gospel contains a wealth of meaning. The image of the Kingdom of God as a meal….

Homily 26thSunday OT 1st October 2023 Throughout the Gospel there is one type of person that invariably seems to provoke Christ’s anger, that never seems to merit a good word…

Homily 25th Sunday Ordinary Time – 24th September 2023 The Gospel reading today can be a puzzling one. It was for the people of Christ’s own time as well. They…

Homily – 200th Anniversary Mass of Rathmines Parish – 17th September 2023 Today we mark the 200th Anniversary of the establishment of Rathmines as a Catholic Parish of the Archdiocese…

The First Reading and the Gospel for today are fairly similar.  Isaiah says what God’s appointed shall shut, no one should open, what he shall open, on one shall shut….