26 July 2018

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 22 July 2018, Sunday 16B, Mark 6:30-34

26 July 2018

Homilies

One of the characteristic features, and curses, of modern life is excessive busyness. With all our labour saving devices and computer automation, the pace of life seems to get just faster all the time. So many people these days have…

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12 July 2018

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass for Sunday 14B, 8 July 2018, on 2 Corinthians 12:7-10

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12 July 2018

Homilies

Today’s Second Reading is the last in the sequence we’ve been having from 2 Corinthians. This is the letter St. Paul wrote at a time when the loyalty of the Corinthians to him was wavering, and the relationship…

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4 July 2018

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 13B, 1 July 2018, 2 Corinthians 8:7,9,13-15

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4 July 2018

Homilies

One of St. Paul’s preoccupations during his missionary journeys was fund raising, or the collection of money. He thought it very important that his Gentile Christian converts should support the Jewish Christians…

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4 July 2018

Homilies

Homily for SS. Peter & Paul, 29 June 2018, Matthew 16:13-19

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4 July 2018

Homilies

Joseph Ratzinger, commenting on this passage, observes that our canonical Greek text must derive from an Aramaic original. There is a direct citation of Aramaic in the name “Simon Bar-Jonah”. There are also typical Aramaic…

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13 June 2018

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 10B, 10 June 2018, Mark 3:20-35

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13 June 2018

Homilies

We rather rarely have the 10th Sunday of Ordinary time, because it tends to be superceded by Pentecost or Trinity Sunday or Corpus Christi. This year instead we’ve lost Sundays 7, 8 and 9 because of those…

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11 June 2018

Homilies

Homily for the Sacred Heart “B”, 8 June 2018, John 19:31-37

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11 June 2018

Homilies

One of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance. For the Roman soldier, this was a final indignity carried out on the corpse of an executed criminal. For the Jewish authorities, it was a necessary preparation for the…

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26 May 2018

Homilies

Homily for Pentecost Year B, 20 May 2018, on John 15:26-27;16:12-15

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26 May 2018

Homilies

50 days after Christ’s Resurrection from the dead, and 10 days after his Ascension into heaven, the Holy Spirit came in power upon the gathered Apostles. He came under the appearance of wind and fire…

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16 May 2018

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday Easter 7B, 13 May 2018, on Jn 17:11-19

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16 May 2018

Homilies

We have celebrated the feast of the Ascension, 40 days after Easter. Now with the whole Church we wait in a novena of prayer for the culmination and climax of the whole Easter mystery, the feast of Pentecost, which we…