• Homily for National Day for Religious in the Year of Consecrated Life

    It’s a privilege to be invited to preach on this occasion. It’s also a challenge. What to say and how? Consecrated life is such a rich, complex, sometimes heavy reality. […]

  • Homily for the Dedication of the Icon of the Presentation of the Lord

    The Lord’s Presentation in the Temple is the last of the feasts of Christmas. It’s another epiphany. It’s a further unfolding of the Incarnation.

  • Homily for the 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time

    Often the 2nd reading on a Sunday is something of a Cinderella. But it’s hard not to notice today’s. It comes from ch. 7 of St Paul’s first Letter to […]

  • Homily for Midnight Mass

    We’ve made it. We’ve got here. We’ve made the journey of Advent. We’ve arrived with Mary and Joseph. Here we are at midnight in the bright stable of our church, […]

  • Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent

    ‘Christ could be born in Bethlehem a thousand times – but all in vain until he is born in me.’ So said a German mystic, Angelus Silesius. Here we are […]

  • Homily for Penitential Service

    This is the time of year we’re focussed on Christ’s coming. God has come close to us. In a quite new way, God has become God-with-us, Emmanuel. He has entered […]

  • Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent

    In the middle of today’s readings, there’s a two-word phrase. It passes so quickly we can miss it altogether. It came in the second reading. It’s from St Paul. It’s […]

  • Homily for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

    ‘O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin prepared a worthy dwelling for your Son…’ So begins today’s Opening Prayer or Collect.

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