Sunday Homilies

27 – 28 October 2022 Dear Friends, We continue this week to reflect on the virtue of humility which we started to look at last week. A brief recap: we saw last week, when reflecting on the parable of the pharisee and the tax collector, as a rule, pride corrupts virtue whereas humility raises up

22 -23 October Dear Friends, It is hard to imagine more appropriate readings in anticipation of the 40 Hour Devotion that begins this Friday. For those unfamiliar with this devotion, it is a weekend of prayer, together, in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. There are some highlights, such as the opening Mass on Friday

75TH ANNIVERSARY OF ST BERNADETTE’S PARISH FEAST OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEDICATION OF ST BERNADETTE’S 8/9 OCTOBER 2022 What are we celebrating today? For many of you still in the parish today who were parishioners in the 1940s, you will remember that the Catholic community of Walmer predated this building. Mass was celebrated by

25 September 2022 DIVES AND LAZARUS In the Gospel today we have the parable of Dives and Lazarus. We normally understand the central message of this parable to be about charity. Understandably so, as that is indeed a central theme of Jesus’ preaching. However, it is interesting for us to take a close look at

17 – 18 September 2022 Seeking first the King and His Kingdom Thrifting is on the rise: rather than participating in commercial novelty, many people would rather try their luck at a second-hand store, leafing through the “previously loved” things of others. Not only is it a source of bargains, but we might find something

Sunday 11 September 2022 We are presented in today’s Gospel with an overwhelming picture of God. It is a picture that we could never have guessed at ourselves and, in spite of Jesus’ words, it is a picture than many of us still find difficult to accept in its fullness. We might feel more comfortable

28 August 2022 The readings today undoubtedly invite us to reflect on the virtue of humility. The first reading explicitly exhorts us to this virtue, while in the Gospel, Jesus challenges us to the practice of it, giving a parable in which he instructs us on a practical way we can learn this virtue. In

21 August How does heaven celebrate feast days? Happy feast day; every loves a feast. And in celebrating the Assumption, we also celebrate our national feast. (Mary Assumed into Heaven is the patroness of South Africa.) We can pack away the green vestments for a moment, forget about the humdrum of our day and lean

Sometimes when one sits at the airport waiting for a plane one begins to notice what is happening around. We become aware of so many people of different nationalities passing by. Their features, the colour of their skin, their national or traditional attire that almost tells us or gives us a clue to their country

What does it mean to be faithful? What is the difference between this and professing the faith? And what is faith anyway? These are among the many questions that emerge from the readings this weekend, all of which refer to elements of faith. “Faith”, says the author to the Hebrews in our second reading, “is