Sunday Homilies

EPIPHANY OF THE LORD – usus recentior 4 & 5 January 2025 ‘Our impotence in bonds’ The ancient term for this weekend’s feast is “Manifestation” – a manus festus, in which God’s clear and radical appearing could be touched with the hands – in which the Divinity has taken flesh in the arms of His […]

1st SUNDAY OF ADVENT – usus recentior 30 November & 1 December 2024 Today marks the beginning of a new liturgical year, and with it, we enter the sacred season of Advent. This is a season of preparation, expectation, and hope. The word Advent comes from the Latin adventus, meaning “coming” or “arrival.” During these

23rd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – usus recentior 7 & 8 September 2024 EPHPHATHA – BE OPENED! When we are a spiritually and emotionally paralysed and are unable to receive God’s love and are cut off from the spiritual energies within our souls, we need to allow Christ to whisper into our depths – ephphatha! There

ASSUMPTION 2024 In 1950, Pope Pius XII solemnly defined the Assumption of Our Lady—her being taken up body and soul into heaven—as a dogma of the Church. This truth, always held by the faithful, was formally proclaimed in a time of global turmoil. The 20th century had already witnessed the horrors of two World Wars,

19th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – usus recentior 10 & 11 August 2024 “What is it?” This cry echoed in the hearts of the Hebrews as they wandered through the desert, desperate and hungry. They turned to God, and in His mercy, He provided for them. Each morning, they found an unfamiliar substance on the

18th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – usus recentior 3 & 4 August 2024 God provides for us, body and soul I was pleased to spend some time with good friends recently. They have small children, the elder of them is now saying the Lord’s Prayer before bed. It was a very natural time of prayer,

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) 6/7 July 2024 Ezekiel, a young priest, lived through the worst catastrophe in ancient Israel’s history after their slavery in Egypt. Babylon wiped the Jewish nation off the map and levelled Solomon’s majestic Jerusalem temple which Jews considered God’s earthly home and the only place where they were allowed

12th Sunday of the Year B (2024) Famed for his patience and suffering, Job wasn’t that patient. Who would have been under those horrifying circumstances? A rich man, Job suddenly lost his flocks of thousands, all ten of his children, and eventually his health. Then as he sat scraping his oozing boils, his wife told

2024 11th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (B) – usus recentior 15/16 June Being homed in the One Tree of God’s Kingdom In December 1837, Newman (still an Anglican, and about 10 years before he became a Catholic) preached a sermon titled “The Christian Church an Imperial Power” as part of a series On Subjects of

2024 CORPUS CHRISTI (usus recentior) 1/2 June God has come to make us whole in His Eucharistic Gift The Feast of Corpus Christi is, historically, a reasonably new feast – celebrated from the thirteenth century, it is one of those celebrations that we might call “devotional feasts” that have become part of the annual liturgical