Homilies

Fr Jeremiah Browne I want to begin with a story told by Father John Shea about a former student in his twenties who made an appointment to meet with him. The young man had been diagnosed with incurable cancer. When they met, the young man told Fr Shea, “I just wanted to thank you. Something you said

There are moments in life when the ground beneath us gives way. Maybe it’s a phone call, a diagnosis, a decision, or an accident that leaves us breathless. We’ve all felt it – the shock of a sudden loss. The aching confusion when a relationship crumbles. The helplessness as someone we love faces something we

C.S. Lewis, the brilliant author of The Chronicles of Narnia and one of the most respected Christian thinkers of the last century, experienced a deep crisis of faith toward the end of his life. He had married a woman named Joy Davidman late in life. Their love was a kind of miracle for him –

Today’s Gospel (Luke 10:38–42) takes us into the home of two sisters, Martha and Mary – and of course there was a brother Lazarus, who doesn’t get a mention today. Jesus, weary from His journey, is welcomed, and Martha, ever practical, busies herself preparing the meal and seeing to the house. Mary, by contrast, simply

Today we hear one of the most familiar and powerful parables in the Gospel — the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:27–37). It comes in response to a simple but profound question posed to Jesus: “Who is my neighbour?” That question is not only ancient; it is modern and deeply relevant to us today.

Have you ever noticed how the first words we speak can shape everything that follows? A greeting, a tone, a simple gesture – they open doors or close them. In today’s Gospel, (Luke 10:1–12, 17–20), Jesus sends out seventy-two disciples into towns and villages with a very specific instruction about what their first words must

A few weeks ago Cardinal Tagle made the point that a church that is not missionary will stagnate. It will stagnate and eventually die. It may preserve tradition, carry out rituals, and speak beautiful words – but without mission, it loses its heart and soul. The Church lives only when it goes out, when it