‘See, my servant will prosper, he shall be lifted up, exalted, rise to great heights’ (Is 52:13) - the first words of today’s 1st reading. Today, ‘the royal banners forward go; the cross shines forth in mystic glow’. Today, the Cross is lifted up, a crucifix in fact, and therefore the Crucifixus himself, the crucified Christ. As he...
Fr. Abbot's Homily for Maundy Thursday 2011
It’s hard for us to bring together everything happening tonight. There is so much.
As a great back-drop, like a tapestry on a wall of the Upper Room, there is the Exodus. It was God’s great act of freeing Israel from Egypt, already 1300 years old by the time of Christ.
There is the commemoration of the...
Fr. Abbot's Homily for Palm Sunday 2011
Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent 2011
The raising of Lazarus is the last and greatest of the seven signs of Jesus reported by St. John. Coming immediately before the account of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus, it clearly in some ways foreshadows that. So we read it today to help us prepare for Holy Week and Easter. In the sign of the raising of...
Homily for 5th Sunday Year A
“You are the salt of the earth”. The image of salt is evocative in many ways. In its first and most obvious sense, salt is added to food to give it taste and savour. A very little goes a long way. In that respect we readily recall the parable of the leaven (13:33). There also we have something that seems insignificant in quantity...
Homilies 2010
Download PDF files of homilies given in 2010:
2010-03-28 Palm Sunday.pdf
2010-04-01 Maundy Thursday.pdf
2010-04-02 Good Friday.pdf
2010-04-03 Easter Vigil.pdf
2010-04-11 2nd Sunday of Easter Year C.pdf
2010-05-23 Pentecost.pdf
2010-07-21 Funeral of Roy Petrie.pdf
2010-08-01 18th Sunday of Year C - The Oblates' Weekend.pdf
2010-08-15 Assumption.pdf
2010-09-12 24th Sunday.pdf
2010-10-03 27th Sunday.pdf
2010-10-10 28th Sunday.pdf
2010-11-01 All Saints.pdf
2010-11-02 All Souls.pdf
2010-11-21 Christ the King.pdf
2010-11-28 First Sunday of Advent.pdf
2010-12-08 Immaculate Conception.pdf
2010-12-12 Third Sunday of Advent - "Gaudete Sunday" - Year C.pdf
2010-12-24 Midnight Mass.pdf
2010-12-25 Christmas Day.pdf
2010-12-26 Feast of the Holy Family “A”.pdf