A talent in the ancient world was a huge sum of money. I suppose in our terms it would be worth millions, maybe even billions of pounds. And that’s appropriate for the parable, because in the Christian life the Lord endows all of us with…
Homily for 8 November 2020, Sunday 32A, Matthew 25:1-13
Brief Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 2 August 2020, Sunday 18A, Matthew 14:13-21
Homily for the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul, 28 June 2020: Matthew 16:13-19
Homily for the Sacred Heart Year “A”, 19 June 2020: 1 Jn 4:7-16; Mt 11:25-30
I once saw a little wooden cross - maybe it was in our shop here, I don’t recall - the sort people wear unostentatiously around their neck, or perhaps on a lapel. This one was quite plain, except for the figure of a heart outlined, very simply, at its centre. I thought that a fine expression of the great truth…