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Jun
27

Homily - 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Bishop McKeown

Sunday, 26 June 2022  We have now left behind the months of big feasts – and are returning to the Gospel according to Luke. We use the term Ordin...

Jul
21

Homily - 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time C - Bishop McKeown

Sunday, 17 July 2022  Jesus is continuing his journey to Jerusalem. Today he is welcomed into the house of Martha and Mary. His actions and words...

Aug
31

Homily - 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Bishop McKeown

Sunday, 28 August 2022  The relationship between the Pharisees and Jesus seems to have been very edgy. They were presumably decent people who, in...

Nov
15

Homily - 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Bishop McKeown

Sunday, 13 November 2022 Mass to inaugurate the Servant Sisters (Sr Clare Crockett's association) community in Crossroads Today Jesus is in Jerusalem,...

Nov
21

Homily- Feast of Christ, Universal King - Bishop McKeown

Sunday, 20 November 2022 Following Jesus in St Luke's Gospel, we arrive today at the destination which Jesus always had in mind – the Cross. This was ...

Nov
29

Homily - First Sunday of Advent A - Bishop McKeown

Sunday, 27 November 2022 Last Sunday we celebrated Christ as the Universal King. That marks our belief in the final destination of the world where all...

Dec
05

Homily - 2nd Sunday of Advent A - Bishop McKeown

Sunday, 4 December 2022 The poet TS Eliot spoke about the temptation of "being distracted from distraction by distraction". What he saw was a barrage ...

Dec
25

Homily - Christmas 2022 - Bishop McKeown

Christmas Day As human beings, we have always loved stories. Down through the centuries, people huddled around fires on dark nights to hear tales of h...

Jan
02

Homily - Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God World Day of Peace 2023 - Bishop McKeown

Sunday, 1st January 2023 Today we celebrate the 8th day of Christmas – but it has nothing whatever to do with eight maids a milking! We are still cele...

Jan
09

Homily - Ordination to the Diaconate of Stephen Ward - Bishop McKeown

Friday, 6 January Feast of the Epiphany 2023 Today's feast of the Magi finding Jesus is quite appropriate for the ordination of a new Deacon in this d...

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