St Mary'sMay 34 minHomily for Third Sunday Easter, Year C, 2022Last week, I mentioned using this Easter season to pray about our communities. I noted that the Eucharist must be the heart and the goal...
St Mary'sApr 305 minHomily for Second Sunday Easter, Year C, 2022Today I would like to do something different. A while ago, I asked everyone to commit to praying for vocations. I thank you for that....
St Mary'sApr 54 minHomily for Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year C, 2022Today I would like to focus on the experience of the crowd in our gospel, and I would like to link it to the incredible passage we heard...
St Mary'sApr 54 minHomily for Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year C, 2022The fourth Sunday of Lent is known as Laetare Sunday. This name comes from the entrance antiphon, in which we are told to rejoice,...
St Mary'sApr 54 minHomily for Third Sunday, Lent, Year C, 2022Our Gospel today highlights for us a number of false judgments, a type we are all familiar with. The people are judging other people over...
St Mary'sMar 174 minHomily for Second Sunday of Lent, Year C, 2022Today we have St Luke’s version of the Transfiguration. It has several interesting elements that can help us understand the time of Lent....
St Mary'sFeb 284 minHomily for Eighth Sunday Ordinary Time, Year C, 2022I had a homily prepared to look at the question of judgment, and the strange relationship between our first reading and our gospel....
St Mary'sFeb 224 minHomily for Seventh Sunday Ordinary Time, Year C, 2022In the last few months I have discovered a website called the Symbolic world and its creator, a bloke called Jonathan Pageau. He is a...
St Mary'sFeb 133 minHomily for 13 February 2022 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Dcn Jim CurtainWho do we trust? This year there will be a federal election, and I’m pretty sure all those standing in that election will be telling us...
St Mary'sFeb 134 minHomily for the Fifth Sunday Ordinary Time, Year C, 2022Our readings this week all follow a similar pattern. The three readings deal with the notion of vocation. As you probably all know, I am...
St Mary'sFeb 133 minHomily for Third Sunday Ordinary Time, Year C, 2022Today we have wonderful readings that speak to the creative force of the Word of God. In the first reading, the Word of God forming a...
St Mary'sJan 184 minHomily for Second Sunday Ordinary Time, Year C, 2022Today we have heard the final of the three gospels that traditionally refer to the Epiphany: the visit of the Magi, the Baptism of the...
St Mary'sJan 114 minHomily for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Year C, 2022Reading the news on COVID these days, I thought it was a case of ‘here we go again. But then I began to wonder what that even means. Is...
St Mary'sJan 113 minHomily for Solemnity of the Epiphany, Year C, 2022This week we celebrate the Solemnity of the Epiphany. Next week, we celebrate that of the Baptism of the Lord. Traditionally, these...
St Mary'sDec 31, 20213 minChristmas Homily 2021Tonight/Today we celebrate the birth of our Lord. Our God has come in the flesh. The One who holds all things in the palm of his hand has...