Homily, Requiem Mass of Mrs. Margaret Jane Dell, RIP, 26.11.24
To me, Jane Dell was one of the “realest” people I have ever known. She was wonderfully and unapologetically just herself. That meant that you had to take whatever was on offer in any particular exchange, and Jane never left you in any doubt as to what that was on...
The Resurrection of the Dead and Life Everlasting. Homily, Vigil Mass, 23.11.24
Pontius Pilate represents all secular power and justice but in its tragic claim to subject the Truth of Christ, the Truth who is Christ, to the perverse standard of human pride. He is aided and abetted, in fact he is cynically manipulated, by the corrupt religious power of the time:...
Heaven, hell and hope. Homily, 17.11.24
The prayers of every Mass are filled with the thirst for Christ to return and take us to Himself, to the fulfilment of all our deepest longings for life, love and peace. The Christian who is alert to the Lord and His Love knows that here below there is no...