Sunday Homilies

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,

The parable we hear today, provokes our sense of justice, or perceived lack thereof, to teach about God’s generous mercy. Let’s have a closer look. The laborers hired at the start of the day represent the Israelites. Their “work” was to persevere, to remain faithful to God, to keep His commandments. That they worked all

24th Sunday of the Year A 16/17 September 2023 In the Book of Sirach in the first reading, we are reminded that anger and resentment can weigh heavily on our hearts. The words of the Scripture tell us, “Wrath and anger are abominations things, and the sinful man possesses them” (Sirach 27:30). Possess? Other translations

The Scripture readings for this Sunday converge on the idea or concept of fraternal correction. Fraternal correction is the practice whereby, observing that someone is at fault in some way, we resolve to go to them to draw their attention to what they are doing wrong, and invite them to reform. Fraternal correction is distinct