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Homily for Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year A, 2023 Dcn Jim Curtain
Thomas asks Jesus, where he is going. Jesus then tells him, and it seems like the apostles still don’t get it. ‘Have I been with you all...

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May 9, 20233 min read
Homily for Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year A, Good Shepherd 2023
Today is World Day of Prayer for vocations, and our gospel gives us some interesting ways of considering how a vocation works. In the...

St Mary's
May 3, 20234 min read
Homily for Third Sunday of Easter, Year A, 2023
Over the last few years, we have been considering Pope Francis’s call for every Catholic community to be fundamentally missionary....

St Mary's
Apr 27, 20234 min read
Homily for the Second Sunday of Easter, Year A, 2023
Today we will be praying the First Eucharistic Prayer, the most ancient of the Eucharistic prayers, known as the Roman Canon. The first...

St Mary's
Apr 19, 20234 min read
Homily for Easter Vigil, Year A, 2023 - Dcn Jim Curtain
Hope, Joy. Where is love at the centre of our lives? Creation, powering down, or up? 3.7 billion years, leading to ? Transformation....

St Mary's
Apr 12, 20232 min read
Homily for Good Friday, 2023
Last night, when we celebrated the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, the first of the three great celebrations of Easter Triduum, we...

St Mary's
Apr 12, 20233 min read
Homily for Holy Thursday’s Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Tonight we remember the Lord’s Supper. We participate in the memorial Jesus himself inaugurated to continue his gift of himself to...

St Mary's
Apr 12, 20234 min read
Homily for Palm Sunday, Year A, 2023 - Dcn Jim Curtain
We’ve just heard the story of the killing of Jesus. Let’s sit with it for a few minutes. We might like to ask ourselves where we might be...

St Mary's
Apr 12, 20231 min read
Homily for Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A, 2023 - Dcn Jim Curtain
We’re sitting down at home, just had a nice dinner, relaxing. We’re watching the television, and a story comes on, and we decide we don’t...

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Mar 21, 20232 min read
Homily for Second Sunday of Lent, Year A, 2023
Pope Benedict XVI in one of his homilies for this Sunday linked last week and this week’s gospels together. He said that the Temptation...

St Mary's
Mar 9, 20234 min read
Homily for the First Sunday of Lent, Year A, 2023
On Ash Wednesday, when we received the ashes, we heard the Lord’s command: Repent and believe the Gospel. I have mentioned before how the...

St Mary's
Mar 1, 20234 min read
Ash Wednesday Evening Homily - 22nd February 2023
Today we begin the season of Lent, the time the Church gives us to prepare to celebrate Easter. So, we might ask ourselves: why do we...

St Mary's
Mar 1, 20233 min read
Homily for 7th Sunday Ordinary Time, Year A, 2023
The theme of holiness is central to our readings today. And the link between holiness and love of neighbour is emphasised. Our first...

St Mary's
Feb 22, 20235 min read
Homily for 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A, 2023 - Dcn Jim Curtain
Last week we heard Jesus calling us to be salt and light, to make a difference in the world. This week Jesus tells us some of the detail,...

St Mary's
Feb 14, 20233 min read
Homily for the 5th Sunday Ordinary Time, Year A, 2023
[Today we welcome our primary school community. It is good to see you back after the holidays. At this Mass, we also commission our...

St Mary's
Feb 8, 20234 min read
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