Category: Homilies

The Lord saith: I think thoughts of peace

29 October 2013

Christ the King Sunday we celebrated the feast of Christ the King; it is, of course, intimately bound up with the feast of All Saints...

The Cross and the Face of Christ

16 September 2013

Here is the homily that I preached at Knock on Saturday, 14 September in the Chapel of the Apparition. Glory in the Cross “It is...

Prepare to Disappear

29 August 2013

Birth, Passion, Death The Church gives us two feastdays of Saint John the Baptist each year: the first on June 24th to mark his nativity,...

I set thee apart for myself

23 June 2013

Yesterday, at the invitation of the Chancellor of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Malta in Ireland, I offered Holy Mass and...

What are these wounds in thine hands?

19 January 2013

Votive Mass of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ Yesterday (Friday) morning we had the Votive Mass of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus...

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