Media vita in morte sumus - in the midst of life we are surrounded by death. Quem quaerimus adiutorem, nisi te, Domine? - What other helper can we look for, apart from you, O Lord? These words are sung in a responsory, number 42 in our…
(Fairly) Brief Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Christmas Day, 25 December 2020
This is the only public Mass available for people here today because of the Restrictions, so I’ve skipped the Dawn Mass readings, and taken instead the tremendous words given us in the Day Mass readings: from the beginning of Hebrews, and the beginning of St. John’s Gospel. These two passages are so…