May 9, 2024 | Homily
“And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail,...
May 1, 2024 | Homily
“Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion: On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments. For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us...
Apr 25, 2024 | Homily
“‘Consider now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house as the sanctuary. Be strong and do the work.’ Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, its storerooms, its upper parts, its inner rooms and the place of...
Apr 17, 2024 | Homily
“The phrase worship experience missed the point. Worship, in the ancient tradition, was not thought of as an experience at all; it was an act. . . . They had come to do something, not to get something.” (Thomas Howard, Evangelical is not Enough, p.45) Fourth Sunday of...
Apr 10, 2024 | Homily
“At the start of the book of Leviticus, the Lord speaks to Moses from the tent of meeting and instructs him to pass on to the people the laws to do with the key act of worship—sacrifice, or offering.” (The Navarre Bible, Pentateuch, p.421) Third Sunday of Easter...
Apr 4, 2024 | Homily
“Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. And the people came to Moses, and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray the Lord, that he take away the...
