Twenty First Sunday in Ordinary Time

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DEACON GEORGE’S HOMILY FOR 21st SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Today’s Gospel message is about the Kingdom of God: who’s in and who’s out.  The Gospel begins, with a question from a bystander, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” The question is not answered.  The answer is God’s business.  However, the business of the questioner is to make sure that he is one of the saved.  Because, Jesus answers him thus, “Strive to enter through the narrow door…”.  The reply from Jesus, “Strive to enter …” must have come as a shock to him.  Because he would have assumed that the kingdom of God, was automatic for the Jews.  And therefore, he expected Jesus to confirm this.  So, he must have asked himself, why was Jesus telling a Jew to, “Strive to enter ….”.  To find out the answer, to the bystander’s question let us look at our first reading…..

Complete Homily for 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

Daily Prayers Week 21

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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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DEACON GEORGE’S HOMILY FOR EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Today’s parable, “the rich man and his barns”, is only found in Luke’s Gospel.  As Luke was addressing his Gospel mainly to non-Jews, therefore, he must have thought that this parable was important for them.  Jesus was surrounded by a large crowd, to whom he was giving his message of salvation.  However, some men in the crowd asked him to arbitrate in a family dispute over property.  They asked Jesus, because, in those days, rabbis were expected to give judgement on the whole range of the Law, which included civil, criminal and religious questions.  Jesus refused to do this, no doubt, for a very good reason.  However, their interest in property, gave him the opportunity to teach his hearers, and all of us, a very effective parable on the relative value of this world’s goods.  The lesson of this parable is very obvious to us all…..

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Daily Prayers Week 18

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Fr Hugh’s Homily for 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if anyone hears my voice, and opens the door, I will come in to them, and will eat with them, and they with me” Jesus says in the book of Revelation.  So at the end of the Bible, Jesus is saying to us, if only we open the door to him he will be that close to us, as a family member eating at our table.  Why does he want to do that?  Is it just to eat, as might be my first thought?  In our first reading and gospel this is exactly what happens.  Abraham and Martha both eagerly welcome the angels (or angel) and Jesus into their homes.  But why have they come.  Its not to eat.  The angels don’t need to, Jesus might need to but it is not his priority.  Both come to do the work of God.  To make God and his message known……

Complete Homily for 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Daily Prayers Week 16

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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Fr Hugh’s Homily for 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

James MacMillan is a modern composer and a Catholic, and on Thursday we had a clergy day with him.  Not being a great music person I went with some dread but in fact his talks were engrossing.  He spoke about his own life and the power of music in it, his grandfather was a coal-miner in Ayrshire who played the euphonium in the local brass band, and where music had brought him, (biography ‘A Scot’s song-a life of music, small and readable.).  And about the discussions he often had with other musicians and artists about religion and art, but especially, even with atheists, the sense that they were searching for and found a spirituality in their lives through music….

Complete Homily for 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Daily Prayers Week 14