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Homily for Pentecost Sunday, Year A: 24 May 2026

Acts 2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7,12-13; John 20:19-23

Fr. Prior Simon

We know about the humility of God's only Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Over the past six months the Liturgy has been teaching us about his self-emptying: how he took flesh from the Virgin Mary; how “he learned obedience through what he suffered”; how he died and was buried, then descended into the lower parts of the earth, for our sake and for our salvation.

Homily for the Feast of the Holy Cross, 14 September 2025 St. Cecilia’s Abbey Ryde (DBH)

 

The Son of Man must be lifted up, so that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

Today, on the Feast of the Holy Cross, with the whole Church, we turn our gaze towards Christ crucified, and towards the Cross on which he died.