4th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Last week we heard Saint Matthew describing the beginnings of Jesus' public ministry. This week Saint Matthew begins [...]

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 [...]

2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
There is no break between Christmas and Ordinary Time one flows almost seamlessly into the other through the Baptism [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

3rd Sunday of Advent Year A
In many ways the readings this Sunday are simply a continuation of last week Isaiah gives us more details about [...]

2nd Sunday of Advent Year A
Throughout the first three weeks of Advent, our focus is very clearly on the End of Time, and the Second Coming of [...]

1st Sunday of Advent Year A
Advent opens with a great promise: In the days to come the hope of a people who need God. ...The master is coming is [...]