This Gospel reading is one of the relatively few incidents that is recorded in each of the four Gospels. But where Matthew, Mark and Luke report the event, and incorporate…

Homily 3rd Sunday of Lent 12th March 2023 This Gospel reading we have just heard is one of the longest, richest, and most complex readings to which we are exposed…

Homily Second Sunday of Lent 5th March 2023 I am sure that every one of us has at one time or another had the experience of being struck with the…

Homily First Sunday of Lent – 26th February 2023 The Gospel, like the first reading this weekend, is a story of temptation, the temptation of Christ himself. St. Matthew’s account…

Homily 5th Sunday Ordinary Time – 5th February 2023 In this Gospel reading, Christ us pictured as giving his disciples the first in a series of instruction. In language that…

Homily 4th Sunday Ordinary Time – 29th January Reform is never a simple process. Sometimes it is outright painful. Certainly, each period of reform in the history of the Church…

Even for St. Paul, it is simply part of the human experience that something which can seem to start off so well, so simply, can get so mixed up and…

Homily – 2nd Sunday Ordinary Time – 15th January 2023 The Gospel reading this weekend centres again on the compelling of John the Baptist. As usual, John had quite a…

The liturgical readings shift focus now, and we are confronted with the image not of a child but of a full-grown man. The revelation now is not so much who…

Most of us old enough to drive, have had had the experience of absent-mindedly getting into our car, and arriving at a destination with no recollection of the journey. That…