The Collect of today’s Mass asks God to give us exultant joy. We need to ask for this, because our minds so easily forget what Christ has done for us. We lose focus; our gaze drifts away from the hope of heaven, and sinks back to preoccupation with the things of…
Homily for the Solemnity of St. John the Baptist - Patronal Feast of Pluscarden
Homily for Easter 3A, Sunday 26 April 2020, on Luke 24:13-35
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 …
Homily for Sunday 32C, 10 November 2019, Luke 20:27-38
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 20 October 2019, Sunday 29C, on Luke 18:1-8
Homily for Sunday 21C, 25 August 2019; Luke 13:22-30
Homily given at the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 18 C, 4 August 2019, Luke 12:13-21
Nothing is more certain than that life is short, and that all of us will have to die. You don’t really need divine revelation to tell you that: it’s been a favourite theme of poets and philosophers throughout the ages. The Wisdom writers of the Old Testament, who were both poets and philosophers, loved to dwell…