Sermons

Why has He not healed me? I have been waiting for so long. He helps others, but he won't help me. What kind of God is this? Such questions arise in the heart of many a person experiencing a serious…

Today's homily may not be pleasant, you will certainly remember it because it will be very blunt, concrete, and clear in its message. I will tell it in two realities - that of priests and that of spouses.  This bluntness…

A busy couple came into one of the large toy shops in the city centre just before their son's birthday. They began hurriedly looking for something. The kindly saleswoman noticed their confusion  and decided to help them:   - Excuse me,…

The infinite God has accepted our flesh, our nature, our humanity. He, the King and Lord of the universe, reduced himself to the human nature he created. It is a paradox beyond reason that leads to amazement.  Those who witnessed…

A Signpost - this is what St John the Baptist was called by St Bernard of Clairvaux. The word could be seen as limiting, reducing. However, of fundamental importance , to whom or to what St John was pointing.   Each…

When we listen to the story about the distribution  of talents, namely coins, we naturally relate this image to the outstanding abilities that lay within people. Everyone has some form of talent, we say. Talent in acting, music, painting, sporting…

Forrest Gump, the hero of a well-known film and perhaps a slightly less well-known book, said, quoting his mother: "The wise is the one who  acts wisely".                           …

Most people begin to ask themselves the fundamental question  what is most important in life. What attitudes, aspirations, choices, behaviours to have a sense of a life well lived, inner peace and satisfaction? Today's Gospel shows a man who came…

It is not difficult to follow Jesus when you see his miracles, when you hear his rousing speeches. It is not difficult to follow Jesus when his thinking, views, interests are in line with yours. The real dilemmas, and perhaps…

"Forgive your neighbour the hurt he does you, and when you pray, your sins will be forgiven. If a man nurses anger against another, can he then demand compassion from the Lord?"  I heard of someone who said he had…