6th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Back in the 60s some groups adopted Jesus Christ as an icon of rebellion, overturning authority and tearing up the rule book possibly because of the frequent confrontations between Our Lord and the Pharisees. Today's

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time
While the world may seem to be very indifferent to Christianity most of the time, it can be very critical of Christians who do not seem to be following the most basic tenet of their faith to be  a people of

4th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Last week we heard Saint Matthew describing the beginnings of Jesus' public ministry. This week Saint Matthew begins the most important summary of the proclamation of the kingdom of God, what we refer to as the

3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time
We will spend most of the Sundays of the coming year in the company of Saint Matthew. His Gospel (like the others has its own characteristics. He is writing for a Jewish audience, and so is always at pains to stress

2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
There is no break between Christmas and Ordinary Time one flows almost seamlessly into the other through the Baptism of Jesus. We ended our Christmas Season thinking about the revelation of the Son of God people

THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD
It may seem strange, but this is a Christmas Feast. Not if we think of Christmas only in terms of the Baby in Bethlehem, but if we have followed the ideas of the Feasts of Holy Family and especially Epiphany, and have

MARY, HOLY MOTHER OF GOD
There are many titles and feasts given to Mary, but today, as we complete the Octave of Christmas we celebrate her as “Theotokos”, “the bearer of God”. As we look forward in hope to a new year, may we be constantly

The Nativity of the Lord
There’s a wonderful way in which the Christmas message emerges from out of the midnight darkness as we gather for this Mass: the first words of Scripture we hear tonight are like the beaming of a star through the

4th Sunday of Advent Year A
Here we enter a new stage of Advent: having spent so much time on the Second Coming, now we look back, to remember the details of the Lord's First Coming. Today we focus on the characters of Mary and Joseph,