Homily for the 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 2025
Homily for the 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 2025
Jesus told them this parable: “What happens when a blind man pretends to guide another blind man? They both stumble into a ditch!” (Luke 6:39) Today’s Gospel is about leadership and about what...
Homily for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord 2025
Homily for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord 2025
Today we celebrate the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple. Previously, we celebrated this Feast as the Purification of Our Lady. In today’s Gospel we can see how these differing approaches...
Homily for Christmas Midnight Mass 2024
Homily for Christmas Midnight Mass 2024
Our Gospel this night begins: ‘In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.’ (Luke 2:1) Augustus was the Roman Emperor who was the first to...
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent (Year C) 2024
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent (Year C) 2024
“What then shall we do?” (Luke 3:10, 12, 14) This question is put three times in this morning’s Gospel. St Luke is drawing attention to it. It is a question, then, that we need to ask ourselves...
Homily for 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2024
Homily for 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2024
‘Then Jesus sat down near the offering box, watching all the people dropping in their coins.’ (Mark 12:41) This Gospel passage is often used to encourage people to be generous in their support...
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Homily for 26 September 2024
Homily for 26 September 2024
Herod said, “John I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” And he sought to see him. (Luke 9:9) Earlier, when Jesus calmed the storm, his disciples said, “Who then is this,...
Homily for the Anniversary of Tarrawarra Church
Homily for the Anniversary of Tarrawarra Church
‘Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days...
Homily for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2024
Homily for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2024
‘Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment,...
Homily for the Assumption 2024
Homily for the Assumption 2024
‘Just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first-fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.’ (1 Corinthians 15:22-23...
Homily for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2024
Homily for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) 2024
“Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” (John 6:42) Or to put it in a more colloquial way: “Who does this...
Homily for the Solemnity of St Benedict 2024
Homily for the Solemnity of St Benedict 2024
Then Peter said in reply, “See, we have left everything and followed you. What then are we to have?” (Matthew 19:27) This question was occasioned by a rich man who came up to Jesus and said: “...