Month: March 2024
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Homily for Good Friday
Over the road, in Crown St, are some offices the homeless charity Shelter. Shelter – isn’t that what we’re seeking today, Good Friday? The shelter of divine charity.
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Homily for Maundy Thursday 2024
The Last Supper, and our Mass tonight, are intense and full of “stuff”; full of words and gestures, of old and new; so intimate and anguished all at once, desolate […]
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Chrism Mass
Today’s Mass stands out. It’s one of those diocesan occasions when the Church puts on her best clothes. Here we are, laity, religious, deacons, priests and a bishop. Here is […]
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Homily for Palm Sunday
Do we love the Lord? We want to, surely. And why do we love him? I mean, why do I, you, each of us love him? Why are we bothered […]
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Homily for the Solemnity of St Joseph
Our Lord is not a lonely planet. He’s part of a galaxy, the heart of a galaxy, and many stars cluster round him. And of all who orbit the Lord, […]
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Homily for the 5th Sunday of Lent
A fortnight is not a long time, and in a fortnight, it will be Easter. In 12 days it will be Good Friday, and next Sunday is Palm Sunday. Easter […]
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Mass for the 30th Anniversary of the Ordination of Fr Derick McCulloch to the Catholic Priesthood
“It was he who sent me”, says Jesus to his adversaries in today’s Gospel. Jesus was sent by the Father to show him to the world and bring us to […]
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Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent
“Time and again you offered them covenants”. So, says the 4th Eucharistic Prayer. Covenants are the theme of this Lent’s first readings. On the 1st Sunday of Lent, we heard […]
