Download Bulletin 8th February 2026
DEACON GEORGE’S HOMILY FOR FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
As usual, Jesus uses everyday similes to bring his teaching home to his hearers. Now salt was essential for preserving and savouring meat and other foods. If the salt has ceased to have any power and flavour of salt, it was no longer of any use. It becomes not only useless, but dangerous, because if used, it will make meat not only unpalatable but unfit for human consumption, the meat will become putrid and decomposed. To light a lamp and cover it with a basket was to render the lamp-light invisible and useless, keeping the room in darkness. Today’s similes, are part of Christ’s sermon on the mount, and follow the Beatitudes. The Beatitudes, which are part of the sermon on the mount, is a synopsis of the new order of salvation which Christ established. Its doctrines are, First, the primacy of the interior spirit, in contrast to the external observance of the law of Moses, Second, the love of all people, as brothers and sisters, under the universal fatherhood of God, Third, detachment from the wealth and goods of this world. Not easy doctrines…..
Holy Trinity and St George 