Intolerable language: Homily, 25.08.24
So, we have just heard the final instalment of the long chapter 6 of St. John’s Gospel on the Bread of Life. The Church has spread the chapter over five Sundays to help us “chew” on it and to savour its deep, rich and often complex tastes. As we have...
Relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis
THE FIRST CLASS RELIC OF BLESSED CARLO ACUTIS (1991-2006) GRANTED TO THE PARISH OF ST. MARY, STAR OF THE SEA, LARGS BY THE MOST REVEREND DOMENICO SORRENTINO ARCHBISHOP-BISHOP OF ASSISI-NOCERA UMBRA-GUALDO TADINO The relic consists of two snippets of Blessed Carlo’s hair. The Latin...
Real food, real drink: homily, 18.08.24
It’s a curious fact of life that the food we eat to stay alive is itself all dead. Yet, no matter how well we eat, or take medication, to stay alive, we know that death will come. For some, mortality simply means that we will die one day; it’s a...
Maria Righetti, RIP, Funeral Homily, 16.08.24
Maria Righetti lived for almost 90 years, but that quantity of time was easily matched, if not surpassed, by the quality of life she chose to live. The picture we get of her from the family eulogy is of a woman with a diligent and determined strength of character and...
Homily for the Assumption, 15.08.24
By the power of His Cross and Resurrection, Christ bestowed in advance on Mary of Nazareth the grace of the immaculate conception. From Her immaculate flesh was born the immaculate flesh of the Son of God. He was to be the Lamb of sacrifice, without blemish or stain, to take...
FUNERAL GUIDELINES, ST. MARY’S (LARGS) & OUR LADY’S (MILLPORT), August 2024
Funeral-Guidelines-August 2024
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