The parable of the Widow and the Unjust Judge doesn’t work in the way most parables do. The Judge in the story is precisely not an image or figure of God. In fact, he’s the opposite of God in every respect, except that in the end he grants the widow’s…
Homily for Week 28C, Sunday 13 October 2019, on Luke 17:11-19
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 29 September 2019, Sunday 26C: Luke 16:19-31
Homily for Sunday 25C, 22 September 2019
Talk in the presence of the Relics of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Homily for Sunday 21C, 25 August 2019; Luke 13:22-30
Homily given at the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 18 C, 4 August 2019, Luke 12:13-21
Nothing is more certain than that life is short, and that all of us will have to die. You don’t really need divine revelation to tell you that: it’s been a favourite theme of poets and philosophers throughout the ages. The Wisdom writers of the Old Testament, who were both poets and philosophers, loved to dwell…
Homily for Sunday 17C, 28 July 2019: Genesis 18:20-32; Luke 11:1-13
In our first reading today we heard the Genesis account of Abraham’s intercession for the City of Sodom. And in the Gospel we heard Jesus teaching his disciples about prayer, especially by giving them the Lord’s Prayer. I should like now to put the two readings together. For convenience though, I take the…