Each year on the Sunday between the Ascension and Pentecost we have a passage from the seventeenth Chapter of St. John’s Gospel. This is the Prayer of Jesus, concluding the great…
Homily for the 8 o'clock Mass, Easter 4B, Good Shepherd Sunday, 25 April 2021
Homily for Sunday, Easter 3B, 18 April 2021
(Fairly) Brief Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Christmas Day, 25 December 2020
This is the only public Mass available for people here today because of the Restrictions, so I’ve skipped the Dawn Mass readings, and taken instead the tremendous words given us in the Day Mass readings: from the beginning of Hebrews, and the beginning of St. John’s Gospel. These two passages are so…
Homily for Advent 3B, “Gaudete”, 13 December 2020
Homily for the Sacred Heart Year “A”, 19 June 2020: 1 Jn 4:7-16; Mt 11:25-30
I once saw a little wooden cross - maybe it was in our shop here, I don’t recall - the sort people wear unostentatiously around their neck, or perhaps on a lapel. This one was quite plain, except for the figure of a heart outlined, very simply, at its centre. I thought that a fine expression of the great truth…
Homily for Pentecost (“A”), 31 May 2020; John 20:19-23
Homily for Easter 7A, 24 May 2020, John 17:1-11
In the days between the Ascension and Pentecost, the Church offers for our meditation the 17th Chapter of St. John’s Gospel. The choice is a happy one, for the great Priestly Prayer of Jesus is especially well suited for these days. In the light of the mystery of the Ascension, this prayer points towards our heavenly destiny, and unveils…