Month: December 2018

• 30/12/2018

  Feast of the Holy Family

  Today we keep the feast of the Holy Family. And today’s Gospel recounts a dramatic episode in that family’s life: the losing and finding of the 12 year old Jesus. […]

• 26/12/2018

  Christmas Day Mass

  Every Sunday Mass, every feast day, has its own set of prayers and readings. Christmas, being a great feast, the second after Easter, has four. It has a Vigil Mass, […]

• 25/12/2018

  Christmas Night Mass

  ‘There is a child born for us, a son given to us.’ Brothers and Sisters, after so much anticipation, Mary is delivered, the baby is born and Christmas is here. […]

• 24/12/2018

  Litany of St John the Baptist

  This litany is privately composed and can be privately used, or even publicly within the diocese. John the Baptist seems to me to merit a Litany of his own. I […]

• 23/12/2018

  Homily for 4th Sunday of Advent

  There was once a Jewish rabbi who asked some of his colleagues, ‘Where does God dwell? Where does he live?’ They were learned men who knew their Bible, and they […]

• 16/12/2018

  Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent

  This is the 3rd Sunday of Advent. We feel expectancy rising, a sense of joyful anticipation. This Sunday is called ‘Gaudete’ – the Latin for ‘Rejoice’. It’s the first word […]

• 11/12/2018

  Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Advent

  Today John the Baptizer comes to us: wild hair and beard, camel-skin and voice. He’s a sign Christ is coming. He is his herald, his forerunner. He prepares the way […]

• 11/12/2018

  Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent

  “To you, O God, I lift up my soul”. It’s today’s Entrance Antiphon and Psalm Response. It’s the leitmotif of Advent. “I” = all of us, the whole Church, all […]