28 April 2020

Homilies

Homily for Easter 3A, Sunday 26 April 2020, on Luke 24:13-35

28 April 2020

Homilies

St. Luke’s account of the Resurrection, the last Chapter of his Gospel, is dominated by the scene of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. You might well think that rather odd. Yes, Luke does briefly mention the…

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12 April 2020

Homilies

Homily for the Easter Vigil, 11 April 2020

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12 April 2020

Homilies

After the worst possible thing: the best possible thing. No: better even than that. Far, far better. Still each year when we keep this Vigil, the newness of it, the magnitude of it, catches us as if in the throat. The explosion of new life. No, better than just…

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20 April 2018

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Easter 3B, 15 April 2018, on Luke 24:35-48

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20 April 2018

Homilies

St. Luke’s account of Christ’s Resurrection from the dead is similar to that of St. John. Both have the startlingly sudden appearance among the assembled Apostles on Easter Day, with the greeting “Peace be...

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1 May 2017

Homilies

Homily for third Sunday of Easter

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1 May 2017

Homilies

St. Luke’s account of the Resurrection of Jesus is in many respects very like that of St. John. And both of them are distinctly odd, or at...

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24 April 2017

Homilies

Homily for Low Sunday, 22 April 2017; on John 20:24-29

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24 April 2017

Homilies

At the end of the Prologue to his Gospel, St. John tells us: No one has ever seen God. But the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known (1:18). We are rightly used to thinking of St. Thomas as...

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18 April 2017

Homilies

Fr. Abbot's Homily for the Paschal Vigil - Easter night 15/16 April 2017

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18 April 2017

Homilies

All of us are here because we believe that Jesus is risen from the dead. What do we mean when we say we believe Jesus is risen? One of the Gospel accounts of the appearances...