5 July 2017

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 13A, 2 July 2017, on Matthew 10:37ff

5 July 2017

Homilies

Anyone who prefers father or mother to me is not worthy of me. Anyone who prefers son or daughter to me is not worthy of me. These words of Jesus sound shocking, extreme...

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1 July 2017

Homilies

Homily for the Solemnity of SS. Peter and Paul, 29 June 2017

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1 July 2017

Homilies

The Catholic Church celebrates each of the twelve Apostles with an annual liturgical Feast. Some of the Apostles indeed have to double up. Saints Simon and Jude go together in October, and Saints Phillip and James in...

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14 June 2017

Homilies

Trinity Sunday Year A 2017

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14 June 2017

Homilies

“Let my Lord come with us, I beg. True, they are a headstrong people, but forgive us our faults and our sins, and adopt us as your heritage.” This is the response of Moses to God who has just...

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7 June 2017

Homilies

Homily for Pentecost Sunday 4 June 2017

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7 June 2017

Homilies

The Holy Spirit flowed from the pierced side of Jesus on the Cross. Three days later, the risen Lord breathed the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, giving them authority to forgive or retain sins. Fifty days after that...

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23 May 2017

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday Easter 6A, 21 May 2017, on John 14:15-21

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23 May 2017

Homilies

Today’s Gospel follows on from last week’s. Last Sunday we heard Jesus at the Last Supper call himself the Way, the Truth and the Life (14:6). And he said that whoever sees me, sees the Father (14:9). Now we hear more profound words of Jesus...

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15 May 2017

Homilies

Homily for Easter 5A, 14 May 2017, on John 14:1-12

Ed Scolding

15 May 2017

Homilies

We are at the Last Supper, according to the account of St. John. Jesus has washed his disciples’ feet. He has watched Judas go out on his mission of betrayal. He has declared his own imminent departure...

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1 May 2017

Homilies

Homily for third Sunday of Easter

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1 May 2017

Homilies

St. Luke’s account of the Resurrection of Jesus is in many respects very like that of St. John. And both of them are distinctly odd, or at...

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24 April 2017

Homilies

Homily for Low Sunday, 22 April 2017; on John 20:24-29

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24 April 2017

Homilies

At the end of the Prologue to his Gospel, St. John tells us: No one has ever seen God. But the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known (1:18). We are rightly used to thinking of St. Thomas as...