Third Sunday in Ordinary – Year C January 24, 2016 As a teenager I read the book, A Reason to Live: A Reason to Die, by John Powell, a Jesuit. […]
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Homily Notes Second Sunday of Advent
Second Sunday of Advent – Year C December 6, 2015 This Sunday falls close to the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Tuesday Dec 8). It also corresponds to dark days […]
Homily points for First Sunday of Advent
First Sunday of Advent – Year C November 29, 2015 Like many people I have been see the movie series: The Hunger Games/Mockingjay It has extraordinary visuals and a barely […]
Homily Points for 30th Sunday in Ordinary
October 25, 2015 Bartimaeus is a desperate person, blind, begging, sitting on a public road and screaming out to passers by. He might be arrested in Melbourne. Or, […]
Homily Points for Mission Sunday
World Mission Sunday October 18, 2015 Pope Paul VI said that: “A Church that is not missionary is dead”. This is true obviously. “Go and Baptise in the name […]
Homily Points for 27th Sunday in Ordinary
October 4, 2015 Homily When preparing for this homily, I assumed that I would reflect on the moral problem of ivorce which is so high and climbing in Western […]
Homily Points for 26th Sunday in Ordinary – Social Justice Sunday 2015
September 27, 2015 HOMILY: This week on social media has been all news of the Pope in Cuba then USA. The address to the combined houses of Congress stood out […]
Homily points for 24th Sunday
HOMILY We are told that God’s ways are not our ways but I have often wondered what that means. I recently commemorated the life of a young man who died […]
Homily points for 23rd Sunday
HOMILY The healing of the death man reminds me of my Father’s loss of sight. When he is told by the Doctor that it is much improved then he actually […]
Homily Points for 22nd Week in Ordinary time
Migrant and Refugee Sunday (Mass of All Nations) It is easy to live our faith in the wrong way. To attend Mass and the sacraments without the deeper commitment to […]