Sunday Homilies

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

2024 FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (Cycle B – usus recentior) 27/28 April Of vines and wines: Celebrating the Lord’s Goodness The First Reading provides us with mention, though little detail, of a cultural clash between the new Christians (formerly Jews) and the Hellenists (the Greek pagans) after the arrival of the former Jew and former

2024 FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (Cycle B – usus recentior) 20/21 April This Sunday, the Church places before us the image of Christ the Good Shepherd, the shepherd of our souls. The Gospel recounts for us the wonderful parable in which Christ himself is shown as the Good Shepherd who knows each one of his

2024 SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER (Cycle B – usus recentior) 6/7 April This Sunday is known by many names. Each name reveals a unique character of the Sunday. Dominica in albis, meaning “White Sunday” refers to the white garments the newly baptised receive on their baptism. Those adults baptised at the Easter Vigil were white

2024 THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT (Cycle B – usus recentior) 2/3 March Did Jesus overreact? Sometimes a little context helps. The First Reading offers a little of this context. On the surface, it seems like a bunch of rules. But the Ten Commandments are no more rules than are wedding vows, or ordination promises. Wedding

2024 FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT (Cycle B – usus recentior) 17/18 February   God’s promise, long prepared, is still for us. The worst fear of a school pupil is the dread of a spot test: no notice, no preparation, with the demand of an assessment of work taught so long ago – yesterday. “Why didn’t

Feast of the Anniversary of the Dedication of the Church, 2023 What was your favorite subject at school? Or, if you are still at school, what is your favorite subject? I wonder how many of us will answer: history? At the time I was finishing school, the history of this country wasn’t something to celebrate. The

Today’s first reading from the book of the prophet Ezekiel gives us a basically simple message. If you do an evil deed or commit a sin then you will pay the price before God for what you have done, whereas if a person who has sinned repents of that sin and turns to God afresh,