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St Mary's
Oct 4, 20240 min read

St Mary's
Oct 4, 20240 min read
Homily for 25th Sunday Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024
Last week we had in our first reading a prophetic account of the experience of truth, not only of its eternity, but also its demands. We...

St Mary's
Sep 24, 20244 min read

St Mary's
Sep 24, 20240 min read
Homily for 24th Sunday Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024
Today and next week, our first readings challenge us with the question: how much do I believe? Do I really believe all the way down? This...

St Mary's
Sep 20, 20244 min read

St Mary's
Sep 20, 20240 min read
Homily for 23rd Sunday Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024
A while ago, I mentioned a new book about Jesus himself stating he is divine. Today’s readings give us an explicit example. The prophet...

St Mary's
Sep 10, 20244 min read

St Mary's
Sep 10, 20240 min read

St Mary's
Sep 3, 20240 min read
Homily for the 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, 1 September 2024
‘Laws and customs’– that is what Moses is placing before the Israelites. Isn’t that what we expect religious leaders to do, lay out the...

St Mary's
Sep 3, 20243 min read
Homily for 21st Sunday Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024
Today we continue our reading of John chapter 6, one of the central treatments of the mystery of the Incarnation, the mystery of the...

St Mary's
Aug 30, 20244 min read

St Mary's
Aug 30, 20240 min read
Homily for the 20th Sunday Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024
Today, I’d like to focus on three aspects of these readings: first, the role of wisdom, second, the idea of the fool and, third, the idea...

St Mary's
Aug 23, 20244 min read

St Mary's
Aug 23, 20240 min read
Homily for 19th Sunday Ordinary Time, Year B, 2024
This week I was thinking about preaching on the first reading. I was wondering whether God’s message was perhaps: before you do anything...

St Mary's
Aug 16, 20244 min read
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