This is a transitional time in the Church year, these last few weeks of the liturgical calendar. It’s as though everything there is to say has already been said, and…

Does religion make people good, or is it because people are goof that religion can exist? In the Gospel today, people in the forefront of religious practices don’t give a…

Homily 31st Sunday OT 3rd November 2024 At times religion seems unnecessarily complicated. Some Catholics get so tied up in rosaries, novenas, scapulars, candles, holy water, statues, and such that…

Homily 30th Sunday OT 27th October 2024 To watch someone see for the first time must be very dramatic. While the bandages from micro surgery are being taken off, the…

Homily 29th Sunday OT 20th October 2024 This Gospel reading is a clear example of our universal call to service and ministry within the Church. Certainly there are hierarchal and…

Homily 28th Sunday OT 13th October 2024 The scripture readings this weekend can lead to some very sobering reflection. In St. Paul’s words from the second reading, “Nothing is concealed…

Homily 27th Sunday OT 6th October 2024 St. Mark’s Gospel is a very carefully constructed piece of work constructed to make a point, to teach consistently the nature of God…

Homily 26th Sunday OT 29th September 2024 The scripture readings this weekend may make you sit up in your seat a little straighter. Certainly the words that St Mark records…

Homily 25th Sunday OT 22nd September 2024 One of the scriptural themes that is most difficult to accept is the theme of the cross as a part of Christian living….

Homily 24th Sunday OT 15th September 2024 The Gospel this weekend has Jesus asking a number of questions beginning with, “Who do people say that I am?” The focus of…