Wednesday 9th March this year marked the 150th anniversary of the Official Approval of our Benedictine Congregation, by Blessed Pope Pius IX, on 9th March 1872.
Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Lent 2C, Sunday 13 March 2022: Luke 9:28-36
What is the Transfiguration? It’s a confirmation of the identity of Jesus as God’s Son: confessed by Peter (Lk 9:20), predicted by the prophets, prefigured in the law. The prophets are represented by Elijah, the law by Moses. The 3 chosen witnesses stand for all the Apostles, and for the whole Catholic Church.
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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).