The story of the Rich Young Man we heard in today’s Gospel is such a divine word. We receive it as ever alive and active; not to be judged by us, but precisely to judge us; to scrutinise our secret thoughts and intentions (Hb 4:12). This is the passage that prompted the youthful Antony, father of all monks, to abandon all things in order to follow Christ, round about the year 269.
Homily for the Feast of St. Bruno, 6 October 2021, at St. Andrews, Fife (Philippians 3:8-14; Luke 9:57-62)
Pluscarden Benedictines No. 195 - September 2021
Br. Joseph Carron ordained Deacon 30 September 2021
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 12 September 2021, Sunday 24B: Mark 8:27-35
Today’s Gospel invites us all to make two decisions. Each of these decisions threatens to overturn our whole life and our whole normal way of thinking. Each will demand absolutely everything from us, up to our life itself. We could say that the purpose of St. Mark, in writing his Gospel, is to help us face these decisions, and, by God’s grace, make them our own.
Homily for 5 September 2021, Sunday 23B: Mark 7:31-37; Ps 118/119:137,124
Assorted news: visit of Fr. Bede, Canonical Visitation, crops, and COVID update
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 19B, 8 August 2021: John 6:41-51
We’ve just heard the second in our sequence of four Sunday Gospels taken from John Chapter 6: the Bread of Life Discourse. There’s something entirely special about the sixth Chapter of St. John’s Gospel. I’ve heard it said that if you took away all the rest of the New Testament, but left this, you’d have enough.