Homily Archive

Thursday of Week 3 in Advent
The reading from Isaiah is meant to encourage us. Life may have been grim. Imagine the pain of a woman who longs for children but cannot conceive or...
Great Encouragement From Isaiah And Jesus
Friday of Week 3 in Advent
The Prophet Isaiah has welcome words for those who do not belong to the Jewish race. He tells them that God rejects no one so long as that person...
John Was A Lamp But Jesus Is The Light Of The World
Sunday of Week 4 in Advent - Year B
The sweetest words that sinful men and women could hope to hear are recorded in today’s Gospel, when the archangel Gabriel announced to the virgin...
The Powerful Name Of Jesus
Sunday of Week 4 in Advent - Year C
Mary and Elizabeth were in a festive mood. They had very good reason. It was a happy time for both of them because they were expecting a child....
Celebrations Are Almost Always An Act Of Faith
10 January - Christmastide
The people of Nazareth had been waiting with great excitement for Jesus to return to His home town. When He stood up and spoke to them in their...
Spread The News
11 January - Christmastide
“Who is it that overcomes the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?” (v. 5). Our faith in Jesus, the Son of God, is the...
This Is What We Believe!
12 January - Christmastide
We who belong to God are being encouraged by Saint John in today's first reading to pray confidently to Him, for He will hear us if whatever we ask...
Do We Understand John The Baptist's Burning Ambition?
2 January - Christmastide
John the Apostle is very protective of his converts. He assures them that they have been anointed and need no one to teach them anything. They must...
Who Is God And Who Am I?
3 January - Christmastide
Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus is a Franciscan devotion and its most prominent, champion is St. Bernardine of Siena, who preached Missions and...
The Holy Name Of Jesus
30 December - Christmastide
In the first reading today John praises three groups - children, fathers and young men - in their various stages of holiness. He appeals to them to...
Living For God
31 December - Christmastide
Nearly 2,000 years ago John, the Beloved Apostle of Jesus, referred to his days as “the last days” reminding us that one day will be, indeed, the...
Looking Back With Gratitude And Sorrow
4 January - Christmastide
When Christ calls us to follow Him, He invites us to make a fresh start, a new life. John the Baptist came to persuade the people of Israel to...
New Beginnings
5 January - Christmastide
From the beginning when our first parents lived in harmony loving each other came naturally. Once sin entered our world that harmony was destroyed....
How We Must Love
6 January - Christmastide
There have been ambitious men who have wanted to rule the world. Immediately there comes to mind the names of Alexander the Great, Caesar Augustus,...
With Christ We Have Conquered The World
7 January - Christmastide
“There are many false prophets, now in the world.” This was John’s warning to Christians of his own time, and it is still true today. People...
Beware Of False Prophets
8 January - Christmastide
No miracle seems to have made more of an impression on Jesus’ disciples than when he multiplied loaves and fishes and fed a multitude, for this is...
With Jesus' Help We Can Do The Impossible
9 January - Christmastide
We can sympathize with the apostles for being afraid. It was dark and they were in a boat in the middle of a stormy lake, and then they saw what...
Perfect Love Calms Our Fear
Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God - Christmastide
I wish each one of you a very Happy and Holy New Year on the day when we celebrate the feast of Mary, Mother of God. We know that God is everything,...
The Cause Of Our Salvation
Epiphany - Christmastide
People who write biographies like to find in the childhood of their subject some event that symbolizes what that person ultimately became. Today's...
The God Of All Nations
Holy Family - Christmastide
Growing up is never easy for anyone. A happy and stable background helps immeasurably. And at school the understanding and encouragement of teachers...
Learning To Grow Up
Holy Innocents - Christmastide
Herod was a cruel, ruthless and selfish king. He would let no one interfere with his plans. He was a past master at the art of assassination. As soon...
A Feast For Today's Victims
Nativity of the Lord - Christmastide
When doing some Christmas shopping I overheard a conversation between two ladies which made me stop to think. One lady said, 'I'm fed up with...
Christmas Is For Everyone!
St John - Christmastide
The great St. John, whose feast we keep today, wrote his Gospel, three Epistles and the Apocalypse. He died an old man in 101 having been saved from...
God Loved Us First
St Stephen - Christmastide
“Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” Remarkably this was the prayer of St. Stephen as he was being stoned to death. But as we know...
Forgive Us Our Trespasses As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us
St Thomas Becket - Christmastide
Once again in today’s first reading John touches on the subject of love. “Anyone who loves his brother is living in the light.” When we have...
Called To Be Prophets
Sunday of After Christmas in Christmastide - Year C
If you read today's Gospel just once and don't give it much thought you will find you are missing so much wealth that John wants to share with us. In...
The Mystery Of God’s Love
Ash Wednesday - Lent
Are you hungry for God and do you thirst for His holiness? He wants to set our hearts ablaze with the fire of His Holy Spirit that we may share in...
Rend Your Hearts And Not Your Garments