Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
What does it mean to be a follower of the Lord Jesus? Surely to listen and hear his voice, and to go [...]

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, [...]

Second Sunday of Christmas Year B
Our hope is in God, not in the sense of a generic religiosity or a fatalism cloaked in faith. We trust in God [...]

The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
As an example for us to follow, the Holy Family can seem a little too perfect: when we consider the [...]

Fourth Sunday of Advent Year B
Here we enter a new stage of Advent: having spent so much time on the Second Coming, now we look back, to [...]

Third Sunday of Advent Year B "Gaudete Sunday"
So who is coming? This Sunday's readings help to answer that question. John the Baptist is asked [...]

Second Sunday of Advent Year B
Throughout the first three weeks of Advent our focus is very clearly on the Second Coming of the Lord - not so [...]

First Sunday of Advent Year B
Advent opens with a great cry, and a great promise: “Oh that you would tear the heavens open and come down!” is [...]

OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE
Shepherd-King o’er mountain steep, homeward guide thy wand’ring sheep.” This hymn which we will [...]

33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
We must be very careful that the real point of today’s first reading is not washed away in genuine concerns over [...]