Homilies For This Week
Homily Archive
Friday of Week 20 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
Why is the small book of Ruth included in the Bible? The simple answer has to be that it is because she was the great-grand mother of King David and,...
Friendship And Loving God Above All Things
Friday of Week 20 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
The remarkable vision of the dry bones recorded by Ezekiel took place in Babylon where the conquered Israelites were in exile. The people felt that...
Do We Think Of God As A Friend?
Saturday of Week 20 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
Ruth and her touching declaration to Naomi that resulted, in time, in her becoming the great grandmother of King David, from whose family line was...
Everything He Does, He Does For God
Saturday of Week 20 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
The Jews were living in exile. They felt that they were a people very near extinction. But Ezekiel promised that God would restore them to their...
God Would Restore Israel To Their Homeland And Temple
Sunday of Week 21 in Ordinary Time - Year A
We who are cradle Catholics have always believed that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God and Saviour of the world. When Jesus first called His...
Jesus, The God-Man
Sunday of Week 21 in Ordinary Time - Year B
A group of people came to a fork in the road in today's Gospel reading - and headed in different directions. That fork in the road was Christ and...
If You Leave Out Christ...
Sunday of Week 21 in Ordinary Time - Year C
Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem where He was going to die for the salvation of the world. Someone asked Him, "Sir, will there be only a few...
Is The Narrow Door The One For Us?
Monday of Week 21 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
Today we begin reading from the earliest book of the New Testament, Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians. The first Gospel was written 20...
Be Open To Change
Monday of Week 21 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
We hear people brag about how well their children are doing at school, how much they enjoy driving their sports car, how beautiful is their garden...
Are You Proud Of Your Church?
Tuesday of Week 21 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
When writing to the Thessalonians Paul told of his humiliation in Philippi because of a slave girl who brought a substantial profit to her master by...
How Easy It Is To Condemn The Pharisees
Tuesday of Week 21 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
Problems in their church prompted St Paul to write his second letter to the Thessalonians. Many members of it were preoccupied with the second coming...
Put Your Confidence In Christ For The Day He Returns
Wednesday of Week 21 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
Some of the Thessalonians were so convinced that Jesus would come very soon that they gave up working. They thought if Jesus' second coming is...
Be Not Like The Pharisees
Thursday of Week 21 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
In the port of Corinth, which was known as 'Sin City' around 50 AD, St Paul founded a Christian community. He admitted that he approached his work...
Are We Ready For Christ To Come Again?
Friday of Week 21 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
The spiritual lives of so many young, and not so young, people is in a pitiful state. More and more are living together without marrying: in the...
Fornication Is A Sin And We Must Be Prepared For The Lord's Coming
Friday of Week 21 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
The city of Corinth was a cosmopolitan centre in the first century, similar to places like today’s London or New York. There was some influence of...
We Must Be Prepared For The Lord's Coming
Saturday of Week 21 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
Love is a gift from God. These words are backed up by Saint Paul in today's first reading, “You have learnt from God to love one another.” He...
Are We Using Our Talents For God?
Saturday of Week 21 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
In a first class hotel the prime table goes to those people who give the head waiter a handsome tip. That is not God's way. In an expensive...
Are We Using Our Talents For God?
Sunday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time - Year A
“If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow Me.” What an incredible invitation from...
Why Do We Follow Christ?
Sunday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time - Year B
In ordinary language, we us the words "tradition" and custom" interchangeably. They refer to practices which have become standard in our community...
Good Or Evil? Our Heart Makes The Choice
Sunday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time - Year C
Everyone has so much pride in themselves that they want to be somebody. Nobody wants to be a nobody! Today’s Gospel deals with this very...
How To Be Great
Monday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
The Thessalonians were filled with sadness because some of them had died and would be deprived of sharing in the glory of Christ’s second coming....
Constructive Criticism Is Good For Us
Monday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
In his preaching Saint Paul did not resort to the philosophical rhetoric of his day. He was but a tent maker who spoke a simple message relying on...
Constructive Criticism Is Good For Us!
Tuesday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
Imagine a boy has done something seriously wrong at school. The head teacher punishes him and also sends a letter to his parents. The boy realises he...
Jesus Speaks To Us With Authority
Tuesday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
In how many different languages is Mass said around the world every day? And what language does God use when He speaks to us as individuals? It is...
With What Authority Does Jesus Speak To Us?
Wednesday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
One of Pope Saint John XXIII’s sayings was, “Correct a little, overlook much, observe all.” That was St. Paul’s approach in today's first...
Our Healing Friend
Wednesday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
The fact that factions had developed among the Christians of Corinth made Saint Paul very unhappy. One reason for the division was their attachment...
Our Attachment Is To Jesus - And Not To His Ministers
Thursday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
What a wonderful prayer Saint Paul offers to God for the Colossians. Every Catholic mother and father should make it a prayer for their children,...
Acknowledging Our Need For Jesus
