Sermons

Demonic temptations do not usually look demonic, but are usually a subtle undermining of our sense of who we are that cause us to grasp for quick fixes.

In a moment of transfiguration we glimpse the weightiness of Jesus and his mission, and we are ourselves transfigured, becoming people of greater substance.

God speaks prophetically through the Church and through some individuals, and the prophetic task is inseparable from humility, constructiveness, graciousness, love, patience and generosity.

The reading of scripture is one of the most important places where God has promised to become present and known to us.

Jesus says to each one of us “I am the new wine. Feed on me”.

God comes to us, in seemingly insignificant places and borne by easily overlooked people.

A growing incidence of cataclysmic violence is not a sign of God’s activity, but it does call us to hold on to our hope and look for God’s action in small signs of life coming from death.

We remain blind to much of what Jesus would have us see until we allow him to open our eyes to see through the eyes of others.

True greatness comes in devoting ourselves to recognising and liberating the greatness in others, and that will often come at the cost of misunderstanding, sniping and rejection.

Taking up your cross is about a willingness to pay the price of following Jesus and living out your baptism. It is not a generalised stoicism.

God is doing and saying far more than we can see or hear, but God is always ready to penetrate the presumptions and complacencies that are closing our eyes and ears.

God blesses us with much more than we need, but instead of throwing away the excess, we are to take what we don’t need and do something with it.