So great is this feast, that we break our Lenten penances, our fasting, our abstinence and we rejoice because of this great saint about whom we know so little and yet such a great deal. We know little because the scriptures give us little about him and about his life. Not even his words are recorded in scripture so he is the saint of silence. Yet there is a great deal to be deduced from this. St Joseph has many, many clients, many of the saints, exalted in him. Among them was St. Bernardine of Sienna. In his writings on St. Joseph, St Bernardine said ‘When God chooses a person for a particular vocation, a particular calling’, that includes all of us, ‘He gives the corresponding grace.’ So if we are called to the priesthood, there is a particular grace for it. If we are called to the married state, God will provide the graces necessary for that state. If we are called to the single life or consecrated life, God likewise will provide the graces. If we are called to government, to be the head of the nation, God provides the grace. Whatever state of life we’re called in, the corresponding life will be available. Now, our Blessed Lady was called to the highest of all states that is to conceive the eternal Son of God in her womb… For Fr. Linus’ complete homily please listen to the Audio.

On the 15th June '16 Catholic Voices organised a set of presentations asking the question "Are Catholic values best served by remaining in the EU?". Family Life International were on hand to document and record this event. There were a total of 4 speakers contributing to a number compelling arguments from a Catholic perspective.

On the 15th June '16 Catholic Voices organised a set of presentations asking the question "Are Catholic values best served by remaining in the EU?". Family Life International were on hand to document and record this event. There were a total of 4 speakers contributing to a number compelling arguments from a Catholic perspective.

On the 15th June '16 Catholic Voices organised a set of presentations asking the question "Are Catholic values best served by remaining in the EU?". Family Life International were on hand to document and record this event. There were a total of 4 speakers contributing to a number compelling arguments from a Catholic perspective.

On the 15th June '16 Catholic Voices organised a set of presentations asking the question "Are Catholic values best served by remaining in the EU?". Family Life International were on hand to document and record this event. There were a total of 4 speakers contributing to a number compelling arguments from a Catholic perspective.

The passion of our Blessed Lord is at many levels, certainly there is physical in the physical treatment or ill treatment or the abuse that He received. But there is also the spiritual passion, because our Lord suffered for us, for love of us, to free us from our sins and save us from death. There is also the emotion passion of our Lord that those whom He loved abandon Him. There is of course the physiological as well, because our Lord is not only God, He is also man. So all of the sufferings we go through, our Lord went through as well and to an even greater degree. He didn’t just suffer as one man, but He suffered for the whole human race, for every single human being, so all of our sufferings are really contained in His. This is true for the Church universal; we are members of the Church. So the Church also has Her own passion. Certainly in our time, we know what the passion of the Church is. We see how She is lacerated, how those who are the successors to the Apostles seem to be running away. They may not physically run away, but by their silence they have run away, at the very time when we need to hear their voice on so many issues. The world rejoices to see the Church lacerated, beaten, defeated. And so it is incumbent upon to continue to pray. And like the holy women to remain at the foot of the cross on which the Church is being crucified. We look particularly to visible head of the Church, the successor of St. Peter. And so we turn to St. Peter and see how he himself behaved on that first Good Friday... For Fr. Linus’ complete homily please listen to the Audio.

On this, the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The Gospel acclamation was ‘Blessed as the Virgin Mary who treasured the word of God and pondered it in her heart.’ The word of God is a treasure beyond all imagining and like every treasure, it’s something we discover or we are given and yet there is work to be done on it. In case of the word of God, it requires pondering, prayer, consideration, application and this is what Our Lady did and excelled in. Every word of God is a word of life and she kept this life in her heart. From her conception, she was already destined for the glory of God, to possess, to inherit the glory of God. The Prophet, Isaiah tells us, “I exhort to join the Lord, my soul, rejoices in God and my Saviour, for He has clothed me with the garments of Salvation. He was wrapped me in the cloak of integrity, like a bride dawn in her jewels.” The Lord indeed wrapped her in integrity, in as much as He created her for Himself and kept her safe for Himself, so that her heart could be in no other place than in the word of God, and the word of God could find no perfect place than in heart. The parents as we heard in the gospel of our Lord made the annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and in this case for the feast of the Passover. Our Lord is 12 years old, and as they went up to the feast, they celebrated it with the prerequisite to devotion… For Fr. Linus’ complete homily please listen to the Audio.

Today we celebrate the feast of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus. A feast that reminds us of His great love, His inexpressible love for us, a love where He was ready and willing and indeed laid down His life. ‘A man’ He says ‘can have no great love, than to lay down his life for his friends.’ But He’s done even that which is great and that which is greater and He’s done greatest of all; for He didn’t just lay down His life for His friends but even for His enemies. As St. Paul says, “While we were yet enemies, God sent His Son”. This love of Christ is something that we ought in gratitude alone, we ought to return and yet it is so difficult for us, because we still cling to things that do not lead us to Him. Who, St. Paul says can save us from this body of death. No one except Christ Jesus, so even though our inclinations and our passions and our desires belong to this world, yet we hope we have that faith in Christ’s love for us that He will draw us back to Himself even against our inclinations, desires and please God, even against our will for there is no good apart from Christ Jesus, Our Lord. He offered Himself as a victim for sin. As we heard in the gospel, He, on the cross crucified between two thieves, the Sabbath which was a great Sabbath, meaning that the feast of Passover fell on that Sabbath… For Fr. Linus’ complete homily please listen to the Audio.

As you heard the passion was long and I shan’t lengthen your passion with a long sermon but just a reflection. Our Lord came into the world to redeem us. His work of redemption was essentially His suffering, death on the cross. He spent thirty years of hidden life, three years of ministering publically, three hours sufferings. The most important part of His life was those three hours, because that’s where our actual redemption was worked out. St Paul tells us that we have to work out our redemption with fear and trembling. So the two things for us to work out our salvation, the two things required fear and trembling, and of course we don’t hear that very often in our world. We are told we shouldn’t be afraid of God, of course that is madness. We should be afraid of God, there are two kinds of fear; there is filial fear, fear of offending God because He is our Father. There is servile fear, fear of offending Him because He can punish us. So we need to keep these two in mind. These two kinds of fear, also kinds of love perhaps are reflected in two of the apostles, Peter and Judas. There is incredible contrast between the two. He knew what was in each of them, He knew the weakness each one has, He also knew their strengths. He warned both of them of the danger in which they stood. He continually warned Judas at the multiplication of the loaves. He said ‘Didn’t I choose you the twelve, yet one of you is a devil.’... For Fr. Linus’ complete homily please listen to the Audio.

Good Friday, has a very special meaning for not only Christians but every single human being. On this day, we remember the suffering of one Man in human history. This is a great mystery when we think about it, that we should commemorate the suffering, the unjust suffering, the most cruel suffering, suffering that consisted not only of physical abuse, but also of emotional trauma, of injustice, of unmitigating violence, of much indignity, insults. In short, suffering that all of us at some point has experience, not to the same depth or magnitude, but suffering which we can identify. Every single human being suffers. Suffering is not limited to any particular race, class or gender or age. Everybody suffers and so we can identify with the suffering of this Man, who is God. This is where the mystery is. That God chose to identify in the one thing we all experience, suffering, deprivation, anguish, isolation, solitude, pain, desertion, treachery and the list goes on and on. Why did He choose to suffer? Because God in His infinite wisdom had decided that this is the best way in which we can be redeemed. Now we see the purpose of suffering, it is nothing other than redemption. This is why in our world, to deny suffering, to try to escape from suffering, by choosing death, is in fact to reject God’s redemption. It is to reject salvation. It is even to reject our very humanity and with it, the possibility of sharing in the divine nature, which in fact is the crown of our redemption… For Fr. Linus’ complete homily please listen to the Audio.