In today’s second reading, we heard part of the hand-written post-script, in which St. Paul rounds off and sums up his fiery letter to the Galatians. God forbid, he cries here, that I should boast except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 19B, 8 August 2021: John 6:41-51
We’ve just heard the second in our sequence of four Sunday Gospels taken from John Chapter 6: the Bread of Life Discourse. There’s something entirely special about the sixth Chapter of St. John’s Gospel. I’ve heard it said that if you took away all the rest of the New Testament, but left this, you’d have enough.
Homily for Sunday 18B, 1 August 2021: John 6:24-35
Amen Amen I say to you (v. 26). That is: Listen very carefully to what I’m going to say. The words I have for you now are very deliberately chosen, and they bear with them divine authority. They are words of truth, and if you listen you will find life in them. They are words spoken by a man - precisely by “the Son of Man” (v. 27) - but they are words also of divine revelation.