Homilies

Homily – 16th Sunday – Year – Fr Jerry Browne (National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies #southafrica #Swaziland #Botswana #eswatini) The world we live in is a bit of a mess! We are surrounded by poverty, corruption, violence, broken relationships, disrespect for human life and deep divisions within society. It’s easy to grow disillusioned […]

Homily – 15th Sunday – Year A – Fr Jeremiah Browne (National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies – #southafrica #Swaziland #Botswana #eswatini) I recently came across the idiom, “The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg.” It’s a simple saying with a profound truth. The same boiling water is exactly the

Homily – 14th Sunday – Year A – Fr Jerry Browne (National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies #Southafrica #eSwatini #Swaziland #Botswana) There are times in life when it feels as though we are carrying the weight of the world on our shoulders. It may be illness, the breakdown of an important relationship, financial uncertainty,

Homily – 13th Sunday – Year A – Fr Jerry Browne (National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies #Southafrica #swaziland #eswatini #Botswana) Over the past few weeks, many migrants and foreign nationals living in South Africa have been forced to flee their homes or live in constant fear. It is painful to comprehend that a

Homily – 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Fr Jerry Browne On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She later explained that she was not fearless; she was simply tired of giving in to injustice. Her quiet act of courage sparked the

Homily – 11th Sunday – A – Fr Jeremiah Browne (National director of the Pontifical Mission Societies #Southafrica #Swaziland #eswatini #Botswana) Frederick Buechner, the well-known novelist and theologian once wrote: “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” Those words capture something important about

Homily – Corpus Christi – Year A – 2026 – Fr Jerry Browne (National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies #Southafrica #swaziland #eswatini #Botswana)   One of the questions I sometimes ask parents as they prepare to have their children baptised is: “What is the difference between receiving a gift and opening a gift?”  

Homily – Trinity Sunday – Year A – Fr Jeremiah Browne (National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies #Southafrica #Swaziland #Botswana #eswatini) If someone were to ask us to describe God in a single word, many of us might use a word like Mystery, or Creator, or maybe Almighty. Each of these words captures something

Homily – Pentecost – Year A – Fr Jeremiah Browne (National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies #southafrica #Botswana #eswatini #swaziland) Pentecost invites us to look honestly at the world around us and, perhaps even more importantly, at our own hearts. Almost every day we are confronted with signs of division. We hear harsh words

Homily – Ascension – Year A – Fr Jeremiah Browne (#southafrica #eswatini #swaziland #Botswana) Some time back, I heard someone saying that if you don’t, at one time or another, doubt nearly every aspect of the Christian faith, then maybe you are not taking it seriously enough. At one level that’s a kind of shocking