Today we are celebrating the great feast of Pentecost. It begins with a picture of a frightened people, people crippled, imprisoned by fear. Fear of a very deadly sort, a…

  We come together on this feast of our Lord’s Ascension not to commemorate a departure, but to celebrate the living and lasting presence of him who at his birth…

Homily 6th Sunday of Easter 14th May 2023 The first reading over these past few weeks has been a passage from the book of Acts. And they have pictured that…

Homily 5th Sunday of Easter 7th May 2023 The Gospel passage we have just listened to is one of the most inspiring in all of scripture. For the other Gospel…

Homily – 4th Sunday of Easter – 30th April 2023 This Gospel passage underscores for me what a fragile thing, how easily threatened, our sense of identity is as separate…

Homily 3rd Sunday of Easter 23rd April 2023 One of the most common scriptural images that is used to represent all of life, really, but most particularly the spiritual life,…

Homily – 2nd Sunday of Easter – 16th April 2023 Over these past few weeks we have taken long and prayerful looks at the core of historical events from which…

Homily Easter Sunday 2023 Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who died and was buried, has risen from the dead. And in his resurrection, all of us, all humankind, all…

Homily Palm Sunday 2nd April 2023 The reading of the Passion is from the Gospel of Matthew. The imagery is simple and brutal. It is that of a human being…

Homily 5th Sunday of Lent 26th March 2023 One of the things about this Gospel reading is how many times the people involved, even the apostles, even Christ’s close friends,…