Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 33C, 16 November 2019, Luke 21:5-19

There’s a great deal of violence and destruction in the pages of Holy Scripture. The Sacred History of Israel is full of murders, disasters, invasions, tyranny, oppression, slaughter. In the Hebrew Prophets we find page after page of threats and warnings of terrible things to come. And the Prophets tell us that these frightful afflictions …

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Talk in the presence of the Relics of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

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We venerate today the bodily remains of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. We do so because she was, she is, holy. St. Thérèse was a person completely given up to Jesus Christ our Lord; completely transformed in him; completely available to his grace, to his call. Thérèse was not at all learned in…