March 2022

20 March 2022 The Rock and the Water: Of murmurs, massacres and the Messiah If we were to speak about riots, bad water and corruption, you might think this was a current affairs report and not a homily. Our focus, though, is from the Gospel, which records the people coming to tell Our Lord about […]

13 March 2022 This weekend’s reading seem to want to awaken in us a sense of the supernatural, of wonder – a reminder to us of the world beyond our sight. This speaks to the supernatural instinct and consciousness that God has created in each of us that makes us aware that what we see

6 March 2022 When faced with an arduous task or an unpleasant duty it is a natural reaction to want to conserve energy, to try to find the easiest path, to take a shortcut to get the job done. Today in the Gospel we again heard the traditional reading for the 1st Sunday of Lent

26 – 27 February 2022 Dear Friends, the readings invite us to think of the words we speak as revealing the condition of our heart: “A man’s words betray what he feels” says the author of the first reading (Eccl 27:7-8). Our Lord reinforced this view, saying: “A man’s words flow from what fills his