Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 6A, 16 February 2020, Matthew 5:17-37

We are in the Sermon on the Mount, according to St. Matthew. The lectionary gives us a series of extracts from that to be read over these Sundays before the beginning of lent. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus offers a description of those who belong to his Kingdom: their attitudes, their…

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Year “A”

At Christmas we celebrated how God in Christ became flesh, in order to identify with us in our humanity. He emptied himself, says St. Paul, being made in the likeness of men (cf. Phil 2:7). Today we see how he went further. He humbled himself so far as to identify with us even in our sinfulness, though…