• 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. […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Homily for the Solemnity of Christ the King

    When the angel visited Mary, she heard that the Lord would give her son “the throne of his father David” and that “he will reign over the house of Jacob […]

  • Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    Today we celebrate the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is not the virginal conception of Jesus by Mary, but the conception of Mary herself. It’s not Jesus’ […]

     

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