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Homily for Opening of the Door of Mercy
Today, the Holy Door has been opened. The Year of Mercy has arrived. The prophet Balaam is called a “man with far-seeing eyes”. There is something of that to Pope […]
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University of Aberdeen Carol Service – Meditation
An American acquaintance christened his house ‘Love-in-the-ruins’. He has never vouchsafed precisely why. Apparently, the phrase – in the form ‘love among the ruins’ – goes back to an 1855 […]
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Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Advent
Let’s look at today’s gospel. It describes John the Baptist entering on the scene of history. It’s a God-moment, an Advent moment. One beginning of the Gospel story is the […]
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Letter on Jubilee Year Indulgence
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Praised be Jesus Christ, our merciful Saviour, the face of the Father’s mercy! One of the features of a Jubilee Year is the possibility […]
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Homily for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
St Augustine has some interesting things to say about the Latin word for mercy, misericordia. It is made of two words: cor and miseria. Cor means ‘heart’, miseria ‘misery’, or […]
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Homily for the Solemnity of St Andrew
If there were a litany of St Andrew perhaps it would go like this: fisherman in Galilee, son of John, brother of Simon Peter, disciple of John the Baptist, called […]
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Pastoral Letter for the 1st Sunday of Advent
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Advent is here. It turns us to the coming of Christ, his three-fold coming: as the child of Mary born in Bethlehem; as the […]
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Homily for the Reception of the Daughters of Divine Love
‘The Lord is faithful in all his words, and gracious in all his deeds’ (Ps 145:13). And sometimes this comes home to us with force. What a good providence it […]
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