[…] This year, 5 March 2022, we had the added joy of witnessing also the first (or temporary) profession of vows of our novices, Br. Patrick Obiejinwa and Br. Edmund Norby.
Homily for St. Cecilia’s Abbey, Ryde, Sunday 8C, 27 February 2022: Luke 6:39-45
Homily for St. Cecilia’s Abbey Ryde, Sunday 7C, 20 February 2022, Luke 6:27-38
According to St. Paul, we should “have that mind in us which was in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). In today’s Gospel according to St. Luke, our Lord manifests his mind to us, and asks us to imitate it. Love your enemies, he says, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you (6:27). Through all this list of commandments, Jesus is painting for us a self portrait, and indeed sketching out for us his own autobiography.
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Homily for Sunday 4C, 30 January 2022, Luke 4:21-30
Today’s Gospel scene sets before us the mystery of the Lord’s attractive power, and also, immediately conjoined to that, the mystery of his rejection. We have here an illustration of the truth stated by St. John in his Prologue: He was the light that came into the darkness of our world, and the darkness could not comprehend it. He came to his own, but his own received him not (Jn 1:5,11).
Homily for Sunday 3C; 23 January 2022: Luke 4:14-21
Important: updated dates for oblate events 2022-2023
2022
Updated: 2nd Weekend of Lent: 11th-14th March (Friday - Monday) - Fr. Abbot
Summer: 29th July - 1st August (Friday - Monday) - Fr. Stuart Chalmers, oblate, spiritual director of the Scots College in Spain
2023
Lent: 24th-27th February (Friday - Monday) - Fr. Abbot
Updated: Summer: 18th-21st August (Friday - Monday) - Bishop Richard Moth, oblate
Additionally, we are posting the text of Canon Luke Smith’s conferences and homily given at the 2021 summer retreat. Click here to download.
Canon Luke Smith