Download Bulletin 9th August 2026
FR HUGH’S HOMILY FOR 19th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
In the first reading, Elijah is on the run from Jezebel after killing 400 of her prophets, and as we know Jezebel’s wrath was not to be ignored. He runs. He is terrified, and he is told to hide in the mountains. Who knows what will happen to him? Will God help him, or has his time as a prophet come to an end? So, he lives in hiding living off very little. In the gospel again the disciples are terrified, for a shorter while admittedly, but they know the lake and they know they could meet their death there if the wind keeps up. In both of these there is both a very real and physical threat to life, but also a very real feeling that God may have deserted them….
Holy Trinity and St George 