Sunday Homilies

7-8 May   Mass ‘The merciful love of God’ in the Modern Liturgy Mary: the Mother of the Good Shepherd We’ve come now to the first full weekend in May, a month devoted to Our Lady, the Mother of God. On Saturday, after the First Saturday Mas, we crowned Our Lady in our annual May […]

1 May 2022 Dear Friends The last time we read about St Peter near at a charcoal fire was on Good Friday at the trial of Our Lord. On that occasion it was dark and cold. St Peter hoped to warm his hands at the fire. Before he knew it, on three occasions, he denied

3 April 2022 GOD HAS A VERY BAD MEMORY. That is one way we might express the theme of today’s readings. God has a poor memory. For the Scripture of today’s Mass speaks of how God is always compassionate to his people. No matter how many times the Israelites abandoned their God, no matter how

27 March 2022 We can focus today on one element of the Gospel of the prodigal son. That of the “fatted calf”. We know that when the Father receives his younger son back to his property he welcomes him and speaks over him words of mercy and forgiveness. As a sign of this welcome and

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

19 – 20 February Today’s first reading from the first book of Samuel recounts an incident from the life of King David. David (who had already been anointed king in his youth but had not yet assumed the crown) is being pursued by the reigning King Saul who, motivated apparently by jealously, is waging war

12 – 13 February 2022 Here Jesus continues to teach his disciples about the Kingdom of God. The Gospel says that many people from many places came to hear Jesus preach. But these words, though clearly relevant to all were meant especially for Jesus’ disciples. Who are his disciples? They are those who have identified