+ ‘From now on all generations will call me blessed’, sings Mary. But why, Mary’s just a simple girl from Galilee? One reason is that men have it easy, at […]
Be like children, don’t scowl at them: a sermon for Pentecost 6
+ ‘I thank you Father, for you have hidden these things and revealed them to infants’ Today’s readings are full of children. The children sitting in the market place playing […]
Let the Bible form your mind: a sermon for Pentecost 5
+ ‘No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness’ What is going on here? St Paul has been unleashed on us, in the second reading, at his […]
When is the right time to act? A sermon for Pentecost 3
+ ‘Now is the acceptable time, now is the day of salvation’. When is the right time to act? In our gospel Jesus ‘saw the crowds and had compassion for […]
Transfiguration, darkness and creation : a sermon for the Sunday next before Lent.
+ ‘You will do well to be attentive to this, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your […]
Divine messy humanity: The Circumcision of Jesus, 1 Jan 2023
+ ‘After eight days had passed, it was time to circumcise the child; and he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the […]