Homily for 10 March

Do you remember the scene in Return of the Jedi.... The devil may come across as an incompetent tester in the Gospel passage, but that is only because the light of ...

Lent

During Lent the Stations of the Cross are celebrated at the Cathedral on Friday at 5.30pm. Everyone say to himself: ‘When was the last time I went to confession?’ And if ...

Pastoral letter from Archbishop

Archbishop Costelloe's letter of 2 March is available as a pdf here.

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Safeguarding Mass

In today's gospel we have listened to one of two versions of what we call the Beatitudes. The other version, which is perhaps more familiar to most of us, is ...

Homily for 17 February

Blessed or happy are you who are poor.  I have glimpsed and lived amongst poverty which is hard to imagine in the West, but I have done it from a ...

Homily for 10 February

We have two calls today. The church offers us the call of Isaiah in the first reading to help us reflect on the call of Simon and the other disciples ...