Homily for Christmas Morning Mass
Homily for Christmas Morning Mass
Someone wrote to me this Christmas pointing out that the Mystery of the Incarnation did not come to us as theology and dogma but as story. Well, last night our liturgy pointed us to the story: of how...
Homily for Christmas Midnight Mass 2021
Homily for Christmas Midnight Mass 2021
I thought by way of a homily for this Christmas night to share with you a letter I received in response to our Christmas Card to her this year. Our card was a photograph of a Statue we have in our...
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent (Year C)
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent (Year C)
“Blessed is she who believed that the Lord would fulfil the promise he made to her.” (Luke 1:45)
Advent is a time of waiting. It is not just a matter of putting in the time; it is a waiting with...
Homily for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2021
Homily for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2021
Today is the second last Sunday of the Church’s year. Next week, at end of the year, we celebrate the Feast of Christ the King — that same one who is described in today’s Gospel as coming with great...
Homily for 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2021
Homily for 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2021
‘A man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” (Mark 10:17) In a sense, this is an odd question, for we cannot do anything to inherit; an...
Spring 2021 Newsletter
Spring 2021 Newsletter
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Homily for the Anniversary of Tarrawarra Abbey Church 2021
Homily for the Anniversary of Tarrawarra Abbey Church 2021
‘So Jesus found some rope and made it into a whip. Then he drove out every one of them with their cattle and sheep from the courtyard of the Temple, and he kicked over their tables filled with money...
Homily for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2021
Homily for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2021
We could easily read today’s Gospel as a performance, as a show put on to impress: Jesus puts his fingers into the deaf man’s ears, he spits and touches the man’s tongue, he groans and then says the...
Homily for 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2021
Homily for 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2021
“I tell you solemnly, you are not looking for me because you have seen the signs, but because you had all the bread you wanted to eat.” (John 6:26) These words of Jesus remind of a curious remark...
In Time of Pandemic
In Time of Pandemic
Job encountered the Lord in a ‘whirlwind.’ ( Job 38:1-2) Before us the world and all within it can seem but chaos, like a whirlwind. Ours is a call to encounter the Lord there, too. ‘In the beginning...
Homily for the Solemnity of St Peter and St Paul 2021
Homily for the Solemnity of St Peter and St Paul 2021
“But you,” he said, “who do you say I am?” (Matthew 16:15) This is a question for us all, for on it depends how we are to behave. The ‘rich young man’ who ‘ran up, knelt before Jesus and put this...
Homily for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2021
Homily for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2021
Today’s Gospel has two healing stories, one wrapped inside the other, one to comment on the other. The one that is sandwiched is often omitted, like many stories of women. It is a story of a woman;...