You will have noticed that we have put the lectionary and the Book of Gospels on a special table with a covering and with candles near it. By this we are enthroning the Word of God as requested by Pope Francis for this Third Sunday …
Homily for the Second Sunday of the Year
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Year “A”
At Christmas we celebrated how God in Christ became flesh, in order to identify with us in our humanity. He emptied himself, says St. Paul, being made in the likeness of men (cf. Phil 2:7). Today we see how he went further. He humbled himself so far as to identify with us even in our sinfulness, though…
Homily for Mary Mother of God, 1 January 2020
Immaculate Conception, 9 December 2019: cf. Genesis 3:9-15, 20
Homily for Advent Sunday 2A, 8 December 2019, Matthew 3:1-12
Homily for the feast of St. Andrew, 30 November 2019: Matthew 4:18-22
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 …