Gospel: Mark 10: 35-45 Everybody wants to be somebody. Since the dawn of history human beings have been trying to move up the scale of...

Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, “You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have...

The Holy Angels I thought for a change, rather than look at the Sunday Gospel, we might look at one of the great feast days from the last...

Gospel, Mark 9.38-50 Well, here we go again – a familiar theme with Mark. The disciples getting it wrong again! This time they are...

Gospel Mark 9: 30-37. Mark is not very kind to the Disciples in his Gospel. They are slow, sometimes even stupid, they are the ones who...

Last Sunday, Ian asked me “Are you doing a thought for the week next Sunday?” My initial reaction was – No! My Thought for the week is...

The commemoration of the death of the Blessed Virgin Mary (the Dormition, or falling asleep, as it was known in the East) is known as the...

Trinity 10. Gospel John 6: 35 & 41-51 In today’s gospel, John picks up, or rather continues, Jesus’ theme of The Bread of Life – a...

35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be...

Gospel John 6 1-21. I have been very moved by the messages of support following my homily (and thought for the week) last weekend. Bless...