Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 11 May 2025: Easter 4C, John 10:27-30

John 10:27-30

Introduction to the Mass:

Today is Good Shepherd Sunday. A good day to celebrate our new Pope! And a day especially to pray for vocations. May the Lord send us shepherds who will truly and worthily speak of him, teach in his name, draw people to him, imitate him, mediate him, feed us with him.

Homily for Easter 3C, 4 May 2025: Acts 5:27b-32, 40b-41

Just before the scene of today’s reading from Acts, St. Luke narrates how the Apostles were miraculously freed from prison, and went straight back to the Temple to carry on preaching. There is definitely a comic side to this, as the solemn and self-righteous religious authorities are so thoroughly wrong-footed by this bunch of despised Galileans.

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Funeral of Fr. Peter Kelly RIP

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Fr. Peter Kelly had been a very good friend of our community for over 40 years.

On his diaconal Ordination retreat in 1982, he served as Mitre-bearer to Bishop Mario Conti, as he was ordaining our Frs. Hugh and Anselm to the sacred Priesthood. His fellow Crozier-bearer for that occasion was a youthful Peter de Klerk, staying in the monastery to enquire about vocational prospects. That crozier-bearer entered the monastery soon afterwards, and remains now as our Br. Michael.

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Maundy Thursday 2025

Exodus 12:1-8,11-14 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 John 13:1-15

Rabbi Jacob Yitzhak was one of the most famous early Hassidic masters. They called him the Seer of Lublin. He was quite a character, eccentric and charismatic, hugely popular among the Jews of the early 19th century Poland.

Palm Sunday 2025, Year C Luke 19:28-40    Isaiah 50:4-7    Philippians 2:6-11    Luke 22:14-23:56

“The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet. … Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes” (Gen 49:10-11).

Homily for the 5th Sunday in Lent Year “C”, 6 April 2025: Isaiah 43:16-21

Behold, I am doing a new thing, now it springs forth. Do you not perceive it? (Is 43:19)

In today’s first reading we heard a brief passage from Isaiah, Chapter 43. Isaiah here speaks in the language of poetry. His words are evocative, musical, stirring: to be savoured and pondered slowly. Clearly they point beyond themselves. We take them very seriously, because we hold them also to be true, and from God.

Homily for the 5th Sunday in Lent Year “C”, 6 April 2025: Isaiah 43:16-21

Behold, I am doing a new thing, now it springs forth. Do you not perceive it? (Is 43:19)

In today’s first reading we heard a brief passage from Isaiah, Chapter 43. Isaiah here speaks in the language of poetry. His words are evocative, musical, stirring: to be savoured and pondered slowly. Clearly they point beyond themselves. We take them very seriously, because we hold them also to be true, and from God.

Homily for the 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C Jeremiah 17:5-8 1 Corinthians 15:12,16-20 Luke 6:17,20-26

Jesus “lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: Blessed are you”!

He formally and publicly declared his disciples blessed, that is, righteous before God – over against the self-appointed judges of righteousness, usually represented in the Gospel by the Scribes and the Pharisees.