Candlemas or the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord on 2 February fell this year on a Sunday. At our conventual Mass, apart from the usual Candlemas ceremonies, Fr. Abbot Anselm instituted our Brothers Joseph and Simon into the Ministry of Acolyte. Both already…
Homily for Sunday 3A, 26 January 2020
Homily for the Second Sunday of the Year
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…