Sunday Homilies

7 & 8 March 2026, 3rd SUNDAY OF LENT The Rod of Penance to soften hearts hardened by sin We’ve spoken before about the various ways in which we read sacred Scripture, inspired by God to reveal His nature to us. Unless something is clearly a parable, we can say with certainty that what the

28 February & 1 March 2026, 2nd SUNDAY OF LENT Abraham in today’s first reading is called by God to “Go from your country … and from your fathers house” – called to leave the familiarity of home and country and set out on a difficult and challenging journey, putting himself in God’s hands. To

21 & 22 February 2026, 1st SUNDAY OF LENT On this First Sunday of Lent, the Church places before us a garden and a wilderness. More than two physical places, they are two spiritual conditions. The garden is the place of harmony, abundance, intimacy, right relationship with God. The wilderness is the place of desolation,

14 & 15 February 2026, 6th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME A Lenten preparation with the Holy Face The language that Sirach (from whom we hear too little) appears to be a gentle nudge to keep the commandments – “If you choose to, you can keep them”. To the untrained ear, it sounds more like a

7 & 8 February 2026, SOLEMNITY OF OUR LADY OF THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT “Out of Egypt I have called my Son.” Who is the Son whom the Father called? Of course, we first think of Jesus. After the visit of the Magi, Joseph took the child and his mother and fled into Egypt. They

24 & 25 January 2026, 3rd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Spiritual maintenance in a time of trouble “The people who have walked in darkness” has a certain poignancy for us, sitting in the dark after another electricity malfunction in the city. There are theories about it being the result of vandalism, and this is a

17 & 18 January 2026, 2nd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Having celebrated Our Lord’s birth and epiphany, we now enter the period called “Ordinary Time” in which “the mystery of Christ … is honoured in its fullness” (Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year). The first reading is a prophecy of the Messiah which speaks of

10 & 11 January 2026, FEAST OF THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD The feast of the Baptism of the Lord, in a way, brings the Christmas season to a close. The crib is still up until the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (and in our Diocese, we get the “extra” Christmas Feast of

6 & 7 December 2025, SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT We know that Advent is a time of preparation for the annual celebration of Christ’s first coming – his nativity – at Christmas, and also of his second coming in glory as judge. Today’s Gospel reading presents us with St John the Baptist preaching a message

22 & 23 November 2025, SOLEMNITY OF CHRIST THE KING This feast celebrates the Kingdom of Christ, whose Kingdom – or Dominion – is a well-ordered body or society organised under one sole sovereign Lord. The Kingship of Christ in fact presents us with the ideal model of a true Kingdom in which our earthly