Homilies For This Week
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Friday of Week 11 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
It appears that others were trying to rival Saint Paul in Corinth and were boasting about their accomplishments. He had to speak up for himself and,...
What Is Our True Hearts' Desire?
Friday of Week 11 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
Today’s first reading sounds like the plot of a film or one of Shakespeare's plays! Athaliah was the daughter of Ahab, the evil king of Israel, of...
Base Your Lives On Heavenly Treasures That Lasts
Saturday of Week 11 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
False prophets were leading the Corinthians astray. This meant that Saint Paul had to defend himself and try to win them back to the truth. They...
In Our Weakness We Can Always Rely On God
Saturday of Week 11 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
Joash was the legitimate heir to the throne of King David. It was the priest Jehoida who saw to it that he was rightly installed as king. Joash began...
Put Your Trust In God - He Will Look After You
Sunday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Year A
Some of us fail to recognise our worth. The world has many ways of putting us down. More often than not, it simply ignores us! A sense of our own...
We Count More Than a Flock of Sparrows!
Sunday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Year B
Storms are a familiar phenomena of God’s creation in which the forces of nature are unleashed onto an often unsuspecting neighbourhood. To be...
God Is Present In All Storms Of Life
Sunday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Year C
One day when Jesus was alone with His Apostles He told them that He must suffer, experience rejection, and eventually be put to death. Jesus was such...
Why Jesus Had To Suffer And Die
Monday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
How would you feel if you were asked to leave your home, uproot yourself from your own country and set out on a journey to an unknown destination?...
Judge Not And You Will Not Be Judged
Monday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
A tragedy which had been brewing for many years is the subject of today's first reading. It was the destruction of the northern kingdom, Israel, and...
We Are Being Warned And We Must Not Judge
Tuesday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
Some people make it their rule of life to look after number one because as they will tell you, if they don’t, then nobody else will. Abraham was...
Follow The Path Of The Lord
Tuesday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, had destroyed the northern kingdom of lsrael and led the people off into slavery. He intended to do the same with...
No One Can Frustrate The Plans Of God
Wednesday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
If there is anything in particular that we look for in human relationships, it is trustworthiness. Without this there can be no relationships at all....
God Is Trustworthy - Are We?
Wednesday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
Imagine one day when you open your mail and find a letter from a solicitor. A distant relative whom you have never met has died and named you in his...
What A Rich Inheritance Is Ours!
Thursday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
Sometimes it's difficult to believe good news. We are so accustomed to disappointments and deceptions that when something wonderful is promised to us...
Choosing Our Foundation
Thursday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
Solomon's son, Rehoboam, burdened his people with heavy taxes to maintain the Temple. This split the nation into two kingdoms, Israel in the north...
The Rock On Which To Build Our Lives
Friday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
People who knew Abraham were amazed to see him swell with pride in looking at an infant born to him when he was 99 years old. They were even more...
God's Care For Us
Friday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
An important event in Jewish history, the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, is told in today's first reading. The king was captured and...
God Is Our Loving Father
Saturday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
The story of Abraham greeting three strangers who are out in the scorching noon heat of the desert has given endless interest to preachers and...
Living Under Authority
Saturday of Week 12 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
The Book of Lamentations has been called the 'Book of Tears' as it expresses the agony, distress, horror and grief over the fall of Jerusalem. When...
We All Live Under Authority!
Sunday of Week 13 in Ordinary Time - Year A
Is our faith too casual and easy going? Could an entire history of the Church be written in terms of the ways we have devised to make our religious...
Cost Of Commitment
Sunday of Week 13 in Ordinary Time - Year B
All of us as we grow older become increasingly time conscious. We start to live our days and weeks with one eye on the clock and the other on the...
Be Prepared To Change Your Plans
Sunday of Week 13 in Ordinary Time - Year C
Everyone wants to be free. Children don’t like being told when to go to bed or what vegetables to eat! Teenagers look forward to having their...
True Freedom Is Not What It Might Seem!
Monday of Week 13 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
The city of Sodom, God had determined, was to be destroyed because of its wickedness. The inhabitants were notorious for their homosexual behaviour....
A City Destroyed Because Of God's Disapproval
Monday of Week 13 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
In the time of Amos, Israel was a prosperous country but also a corrupt one. Many people had become wealthy through exploiting the poor and many had...
Finding True Freedom In Our Lives
Tuesday of Week 13 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
Divine justice demanded that the sinful cities of Sodom and Gomorrah be destroyed. But because of His great love for Abraham, God spared his nephew,...
How We Can Escape From Eternal Death?
Tuesday of Week 13 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
Having entered into a covenant with His chosen people the response God expected was faith and love. Sadly, He did not get it. It was Amos' task to...
Anxiety, Worry And Lack Of Trust Bring Disappointment To God
Wednesday of Week 13 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
We hear so much today of nationalism and ethnic cleansing. The Jews, like many a nation, had great national pride. They were proud to be the...
We Are All The Children Of God
