The liturgy today presents to us both sides of the paradox of the Cross of Christ. In the first place, there is the subjective, human, emotional side. We are invited to consider, if we are able, how very great were the sufferings Jesus endured for…
Homily for Palm Sunday, 5 April 2020: Matthew 26:14 - 27:66 etc.
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 33C, 16 November 2019, Luke 21:5-19
There’s a great deal of violence and destruction in the pages of Holy Scripture. The Sacred History of Israel is full of murders, disasters, invasions, tyranny, oppression, slaughter. In the Hebrew Prophets we find page after page of threats and warnings of terrible things to come. And the Prophets tell us that these frightful afflictions …