4th Sunday of Lent (Year C) On this mid-Sunday in Lent, the Gospel is the familiar parable of the Prodigal Son. It emphasises the power...

3rd Sunday of Lent (Year C) The parable of the fig tree is a lesson for us that we are given one more chance to repent. Now is the...

2nd Sunday of Lent (Year C) On the 2nd Sunday of Lent each year, we have one of the Gospel accounts of the Transfiguration. It was a...

1st Sunday of Lent (Year C) The devil is ever at work, tempting people away from God, away from what is right. The devil has infiltrated...

8th Sunday of Year C Today’s Gospel can help us as we plan our Lent which begins on Wednesday. We need firstly to remove the plank that...

7th Sunday of year C Of all the instructions that Jesus gave his disciples, one of the most difficult is what Jesus teaches in today’s...

6th Sunday of Year (C) St Luke's version of the Beatitudes makes a similar point to the Beatitudes presented in the more familiar St...

5th Sunday of Year (C) In today’s Gospel, Jesus makes things happen. Simon and the others had been fishing all night but had had no...

4th Sunday of Year (C) Today’s Gospel passage follows on from last week’s passage when Jesus claimed that he was the fulfilment of...

3rd Sunday of Year (C) Jesus reads from the prophet Isaiah in the synagogue and at the end, he makes a startling revelation to those...

2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (C) Today we have the 3rd Epiphany in successive weeks. The account of the wedding feast at Cana when Jesus...

The Baptism of the Lord Today we leap 30 years from last Sunday, moving from the Feast of the Epiphany to Christ’s 2nd Epiphany when he...

The Epiphany of the Lord The three Wise Men follow the star to Bethlehem to find the new-born King. There they worship Jesus and present...

4th Sunday of Advent The final Sunday of Advent each year is the only one on which the Gospel explicitly refers to the birth of the one...

3rd Sunday of Advent ‘Rejoice in the Lord always’ goes the Entrance Antiphon in today’s Mass, Our Advent journey takes a step upwards...

2nd Sunday of Advent John the Baptist was the one who prepared the way for the Lord. He quoted from the prophet Isaiah, urging everyone...

1st Sunday of Advent We may think of Advent as a time of light-hearted celebration as we get ready for Christmas, but today’s liturgy...

Christ the King Today we reach the climax of the Church’s Year with the celebration of Christ the King. When Jesus claimed he was King...

33rd Sunday of Year B St Mark’s Gospel today presents us with a vision of the Second Coming of Christ. It is described as darkness...

32nd Sunday of Year B In today’s Gospel. Jesus watches from opposite the treasury and sees the proud and self-important making a show of...