CORPUS CHRISTI

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FR HUGH’S HOMILY FOR CORPUS CHRISTI 2025

Over the last few weeks we have been talking about the bread and wine becoming the body and blood of Jesus Christ.  But how can we get an idea of how this might be possible.  Over the centuries many learned people (and not so learned) have tried to explain this change, and often given very good explanations giving us also the word ‘transubstantion,’ changed substance.  But even this is hard for us to grasp.  Also we know that this is a mystery so we can never get to the bottom of it completely.  Can we find a very simple (too simple really) way of looking at it?….

Complete Homily for Corpus Christi

Daily Prayers Week 12

 

Most Holy Trinity

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Deacon George’s Homily for Most Holy Trinity

For five minutes, could you pretend you were children back at school.  And you were in the science classroom.  And you found some liquid metal … called mercury.  And if you touched it with your pencil, it would break into several pieces.  Also, with your pencil you could merge it back into a single blob of mercury again.  Mercury is an element, a substance, which it cannot be broken down into any other element.  If you separated it into many parts, every part would remain pure mercury.  Now if we had a element called “pure unadulterated love” and we separated it, like the mercury, into several parts, each part would still consist of the element “pure unadulterated love”……

Complete Homily for Most Holy Trinity 

Daily Prayers Week 11

Pentecost

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FR HUGH’S HOMILY FOR PENTECOST

Many of you might remember the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit we receive at Confirmation.  Those making their Confirmation have been studying them and Mary Biddle has used explanations of each of them from an old catechetics book. to explain each one.  You may remember different explanations.  It might be helpful to look at them again and the explanation given….

AWE AND WONDER: to help us appreciate the greatness of God in the world and people around us… KNOWLEDGE: to help us to know ourselves and the world around us.  To see the world as it really is… REVERENCE: to help us to love God and each other as we should.  UNDERSTANDING: to help us to understand all that God has told us.  RIGHT JUDGEMENT: to help us to know what to do, especially in difficult situations… WISDOM: helps us to see things as God wants us to see them.  COURAGE: to give us the strength to do what is right, no matter how hard this may be.

Complete Homily for Pentecost

Daily Prayers Week 10

Second Sunday of Easter

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Deacon George’s Homily for 2nd Sunday of Easter

Before they encountered Jesus, the disciples all had their own jobs, their own identities and their own way of life.  After they had encountered Jesus, their lives changed.  Their characters remained the same, and they didn’t stop being themselves.  They simply found a new way of living.  In today’s Gospel reading, the disciples now believe that Jesus is gone.  And the direction of their lives changes once again.  They are now a group of people who gather together out of fear.  They are very fearful, that they will have to face the same death as Jesus.  Their lives are now so rooted in fear, that they lock themselves away.  It is whilst they are locked away, that the Risen Jesus comes to them.  He does not come to chastise them for abandoning him, but he comes to reclaim them, with his forgiveness and love, through his words of peace.  He shows himself to his disciples.   And they can see from his hands and his side, that his resurrection does not remove his wounds, of cruelty and suffering.   Because the risen Jesus is the wounded crucified Christ…..

Complete Homily for 2nd Sunday of Easter

Daily Prayers Easter 2

 

Palm Sunday

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FR HUGH’S HOMILY FOR PALM SUNDAY  

What does Jesus feel in these final days?  Think of yourself as being in his place for a moment.  Celebrated as king as no High Priest, pharisee or Roman governor has ever been by his people since King David.  ‘Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord.’  Yet within days betrayed by the same people, his people, ‘release to us Barabbas,’ the murderer they cry instead.  Then stripped of his clothes and his dignity, forced to carry his cross through the baying crowds, and crucified for all to see, as a common criminal….

Complete Homily for Palm Sunday

Daily Prayers Palm Sunday

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