For you my soul is thirsting, O Lord, my God.
That was the response we repeated in between the verses of today’s Psalm, following today’s first reading. Psalm 62 (63 in Hebrew numbering) is surely one of the most loved and lovely of all the Psalms.
YouCan Retreat
Homily of the Feast of All Saints: Sunday 1 November 2026
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A: 18 October 2026 Isaiah 45:1.4-6; 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5; Matthew 22:15-21
Fr. Prior Simon
Today we get a very entertaining passage from Matthew's Gospel, short but full of tension and drama, sarcasm and wit. It all happens after Our Lord's triumphal entry into Jerusalem and the cleansing of the Temple. Riding on the wave of popular support, as it were, Jesus has swept right into what was the very centre of political power and religious devotion for the Jewish people.
Walnuts
Geese
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 4 October 2026, Sunday 27A: Phil 4:6-9
Today’s second reading gives us just 4 verses from Philippians. The passage is very familiar: a wonderful one to take very slowly, reading it word by word as a prayerful lectio divina. Chewing over these words, we can draw life-giving nourishment from them, and inspiration, and encouragement, and consolation, and affirmation.