I don’t suppose there is very much in life that more of us value more highly than simply peace of mind, freedom from stress, from anxiety. That being so, these…

By the time St Luke wrote this Gospel, the Church was facing the challenge of learning to live with what seemed to be the absence of Christ, the absence of…

GAZA HOMILY – July 2025   As Christians we have a duty to speak out against injustice and poverty in the world. No right-minded person would seek to defend or…

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 3 August 2025   It is perhaps unlikely that there is a single one of us here who has not grappled at one time…

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 27 July 2025   I suppose any one of us could find in our lives some example of one of the great, perplexing mysteries…

  In this gospel passage St Luke uses the words of a lawyer to pose two universal human questions: “What must I do to be saved? What kind of life…

HOMILY This gospel continues St Luke’s reflections on just what it means to be a disciple of Christ. The word ‘disciple’ literally means a ‘learner’, one who learns from someone…

Feast of Corpus Christi – 22 June 2025   The Eucharist, along with the forgiveness of sin, seems to be one of the few sacramental rites, as we celebrate them…

Trinity Sunday – 15 June 2025   This weekend we celebrate the truth about God, about what he is.  God is the Trinity, he is Three-In-One, the Father, the Son…

As the Apostles watched the physical departure of Christ, they must have been fairly well forced into the understanding that Christ, in person at least, had done all he intended…