Some Sadducees put a question to Jesus. The Sadducees do not come across here or elsewhere as a very admirable or attractive group. Josephus tells us that they dominated the Jewish aristocracy and the…
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 20 October 2019, Sunday 29C, on Luke 18:1-8
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…