Traversing Emmaus

Homily for the Second Sunday of Lent, 2022, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea, Gladstone, Qld.

“For us, our homeland is in heaven, and from heaven comes the saviour we are waiting for, the Lord Jesus Christ, and he will transfigure these wretched bodies of ours into copies of his glorious body. He [who is 'our light and our salvation' (Ps 27)] will do that by the same power with which he can subdue the whole universe." (cf. Phil 3:17-4:1; Luke 9).

Homily for Friday of the First Week of Lent, 2022, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea, Gladstone, Qld.

“Am I likely to take pleasure in the death of a wicked man – it is the Lord who speaks – and not prefer to see him renounce his wickedness and live?” (cf. Ez 18:23). "If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt, Lord, who would survive?" (Ps 130). Our virtue must go deeper than this, if we, are to ever enter the kingdom of heaven (cf. Mt 5).

Homily for Wednesday of the First Week of Lent (and the Feast of Saint Frances of Rome), 2022, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea, Gladstone, Qld.

“Who knows if God will not change his mind and relent?” (cf. Jonah 3:1-10). Even so, "a broken and humble heart, O God, [we do know] you will not spurn." (Ps 50).

Homily for the First Sunday in Lent, 2022, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea, Gladstone, and Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mt Larcom, Qld.

“Be with [us], Lord, [for your] Word is near… in [our] mouth and in [our] heart.” (Ps 91 cf. Rm 10:8)

Homily delivered for the communities of St Agnes, Agnes Waters, and Our Lady Star of the Sea, Gladstone.

"Remember that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return." (cf. Gen 3:19).