Sunday Homilies

This weekend’s readings certainly invite us to reflect on our relationship with earthly things such as money, possession, and superficial or temporal goods. The first reading from Ecclesiastes has the famous refrain “Vanity of vanities! All is vanity” that St Philip Neri and his disciples used to sing in the streets of Rome. It reminds

I would venture to say that most human beings, when encountering people who have harmed others, who live evil, ungodly lives, would instinctively believe that such people should be punished. Furthermore, most people would say that leaders and governments have the duty to protect the innocent and the law-abiding populace by removing those who wound

The readings this week invite us to reflect on the question of service. In the first reading, from the book of Genesis, Abraham is described as sparing no effort to serve his mysterious divine guests. And in the Gospel, notwithstanding her complaints about her sister, Martha is seen to be serving Our Lord. Most parish

You may think that a priest breathes a sigh of relief when he sees the Sunday reading is something so well known as the Good Samaritan. In fact, this is not always the case, as such readings that have so penetrated our minds and even language, are so deep and rich that one always feel

Homily for the 13th Sunday of the Year (C) After the long months of Lent and Eastertide, followed by the feasts that we celebrate thereafter, concluding with Corpus Christi last Sunday, we return now to Ordinary Time and its characteristic green vestments. In this season of the liturgical year we celebrate not any one specific

Homily: Corpus Christi, 19 June 2022 Dear Friends, this Sunday we celebrate the solemnity of Corpus Christi. You might remember that at the Last Supper Our Lord spoke over the bread and wine he shared with his Apostles, saying: “this is my body”, “this is my blood”, “do this in remembrance of me”. In speaking

TRINITY SUNDAY: 12 JUNE 2022 We live in a world that has largely chosen to turn its face from God. Many people today claim to be without religion, agnostic, or atheist; perhaps many even in our own families and amongst our closest friends. What seems to be interesting, however, is that, when examined closely, these

4 – 5 June Missa Spiritus Domini Gifts and Fruits: Saint Philip and the Pentecost change of heart The Solemnity of Pentecost is a fitting time for us to think about the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of our Glorious Patriarch, Saint Philip Neri. He is called, like those first Eleven, gathered

28 -29 May Let us go back to the beginning in order that we might enter the mystery of the feast we celebrate this weekend, that of the Ascension of Our Lord. We read from St John: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (Jn

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