Sunday Homilies

How different is your life from what you imagined it would be when you finished school? Is this the city in which you expected to live? Did you know your spouse at the time? Did you imagine the career you would follow, the responsibilities you would carry, or the challenges you would face? Perhaps you […]

The Easter season finished a few weeks ago, but the feasts of the Holy Trinity and Corpus Christi (last Sunday) mean that only this Sunday do we return to the green vestments of what the Church describes as “Ordinary Time”. In the older Catholic calendar (used also partly among Anglicans and Lutherans) the Sundays of

How do we come to know God? Not merely know things about Him, but truly know Him. Moses knew that God was powerful. He had seen the plagues in Egypt and the waters of the Red Sea part before him. Moses knew that God was faithful. He had watched the Lord lead His people out

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Today the Church celebrates Pentecost, the great feast of the Holy Spirit, the day on which the risen Christ fulfilled his promise and poured out the Spirit upon Peter and the other the apostles. [Today] We heard in the Acts of the Apostles [Sunday Masses] that the disciples were

Be the Presence of Jesus till the end of the age The older Roman Rite includes a striking visual cue to what happens on Ascension Thursday. After the Gospel, which ends with a description of Our Lord’s disappearance from the sight of the Apostles, a server descends from the Sanctuary to the Easter Candle and

9 & 10 May 2026, 6th SUNDAY OF EASTER In the Gospel today, Jesus says something deeply consoling: “I will not leave you desolate.” Desolate, in other translations is given as “orphaned” – “I will not leave you orphaned”. Those words lie at the heart of all the readings this Sunday. They are spoken on

2 & 3 May 2026, 5th SUNDAY OF EASTER Today’s first reading reveals an interesting moment in the history of the early Church as recounted by St Luke. A dispute had occurred – basically a complaint of inequality of treatment between those of different backgrounds in the early Christian community (between those who came from

25 & 26 April 2026, 4th SUNDAY OF EASTER Dear Friends, This Sunday, Good Shepherd Sunday, we hear Our Lord say: “My sheep hear my voice.” In Rome, it is customary for the Holy Father—Pope Leo XIV—to ordain new priests on this day. These are men who, in some way, have heard the voice of the

11 & 12 April 2026, 2nd SUNDAY OF EASTER This Second Sunday of Easter has many names. The Octave Day of Easter – being eight days after Easter Day itself; Low Sunday – the name traditionally used most in England, as today is a great feast but “low” in comparison with the “high” day of Easter Sunday; Domenica in Albis,

28 & 29 March 2026, PALM SUNDAY We stand at the threshold of Holy Week, and the Church places before us something deeply striking, unsettling. Within a single liturgy, we are made to experience two completely different realities. At the beginning, there is joy, acclaim, and celebration: “Hosanna to the Son of David!” Jesus enters