Homilies
67 articles filed under Homilies.
Homily for Friday, Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
2 Tm 3:10-17 Mk 12: 35-37 This morning’s gospel reading is short but it may sound a little confusing on first hearing. Many Jews expected...
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Homily for Wednesday, Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
2 Tm 1:1-3, 6-12 Mk 12:18-27 In the time of Jesus there was more than one understanding of death within the Jewish tradition. One group,...
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Homily for Tuesday, Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
2 Pt 3:12-15a, 17-18 Mk 12:13-17 Today’s first reading from the second letter of Peter says, ‘Think of our Lord’s patience as your...
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Homily for Friday Seveventh week of Easter
In the twenty-first chapter of St. John’s Gospel, we find a gut-wrenching encounter between Jesus and Peter that defines the essence of...
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Homily for Wednesday, Seventh Week of Easter
Acts 20:28-38 Jn 17:11b-19 In this morning’s gospel, we have an extract from the prayer of Jesus for his disciples, set in the context of...
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Homily for Monday, Seventh Week of Easter
Acts 19:1-8 Jn 16:29-33 I have always been struck by the reply of some disciples in Ephesus to Paul’s question, ‘Did you receive the Holy...
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Homily for Feast of the Ascension of The Lord
I came across a story in a book recently of a little girl being shown around the Church of the Ascension. Looking up at a large painting of...
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Homily for Thursday, Sixth Week of Easter
Acts 18:1-8 or Acts 1:1-11 Jn 16:16-20. There is a married couple who feature in today’s first reading, Aquila and Priscilla. They were a...
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Homily for Wednesday, Sixth Week of Easter
Acts 17:15, 22-18:1 Jn 16:12-15 There is only so much that people can learn at a certain stage of their lives. The great truths of life...
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Homily for Tuesday Sixth Week of Easter Acts
16:22-34; Psalm 137; l John 16:5-11 Today’s first reading tells us of the imprisonment of St Paul and his companion Silas. They had freed a...
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An Act of Spiritual Communion
Since members of the public shall not be able to receive Holy Communion, let each one of us make an act of Spiritual Communion composed by...
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Homily for Monday, Sixth Week of Easter
Reading Acts 16:11-15 Jn 15:26-16:4a In the gospel reading this morning, Jesus expresses concern lest the faith of his disciples might be...
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Homily for Saturday, Fifth Week of Easter
Acts 16:1-10 Jn 15:18-21 John’s gospel speaks about God’s love for the world. God so loved the world that he sent his only Son. In this...
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Homily for Friday, Fifth Week of Easter
Readings Acts 15:22-31 Jn 15:12-17 In this morning’s gospel reading, Jesus uses the language of friendship to describe his relationship...
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Homily for the Feast of Saint Matthias, Apostle
After Judas had betrayed Jesus, the twelve apostles that Jesus chose had been reduced to eleven. It was important to preserve the number...
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Homily for Wednesday, Fifth Week of Easter Acts
Readings Acts 15:1-6 Jn 15:1-8 There is always a temptation to put limits on God, to say, in effect, that God cannot do this or that unless...
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Best from WhatsApp: 100 years old industry of AVIATION
A very SAD day for a 100 years old industry of AVIATION Virgin fires more than 3,000 people including 600 Pilots. Virgin Australia files...
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Homily for Saturday, Fourth Week of Easter
R Acts 13:44-52 Jn 14:7-14 Perhaps we can easily identify with Philip’s request to Jesus at the beginning of this morning’s gospel reading,...
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Homily for Friday, Fourth Week of Easter
R Acts 13:26-33 Jn 14:1-6. When someone you love deeply is seriously ill and is not going to get better, it is a real way of the cross. You...
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