Episodes
Sunday Nov 19, 2017
Do you know what Jesus meant by 'a talent'?
Sunday Nov 19, 2017
Sunday Nov 19, 2017
Matthew 25: 14-30 Thirty-third Sunday of the Year
Sunday Nov 19, 2017
How come Catholics pray for the Dead?
Sunday Nov 19, 2017
Sunday Nov 19, 2017
We're not morbid. It's just that we believe in life after death.
Tuesday Nov 07, 2017
Why people don't get to go to heaven
Tuesday Nov 07, 2017
Tuesday Nov 07, 2017
Tuesday 7th November 2017
Luke 14 15-24
Jesus has been talking about how some people expect to go to heaven, but won't make it; and how other seemingly unlikely candidates will make it. In today's Gospel Our Lord explains why some people won't make it.
Monday Oct 02, 2017
Do you know the name of your Guardian Angel?
Monday Oct 02, 2017
Monday Oct 02, 2017
On their Feast Day I recount how I found out the name of my own Guardian Angel.
Friday Jun 30, 2017
Deacon John celebrates
Friday Jun 30, 2017
Friday Jun 30, 2017
On the Feast of St Peter & St Paul on 29th June 1992 my father-in-law was ordained a deacon. This year we celebrated the Feast and marked his Silver Jubilee in the diaconate. A remarkable man!
Sunday May 07, 2017
Similarities between people and sheep
Sunday May 07, 2017
Sunday May 07, 2017
Good Shepherd Sunday; Vocations Sunday
Sunday 7 May 2017
[Fourth Sunday of Easter]
Acts 2: 14,36-41 1 Peter 2:2-25 John 10:1-10
People don't like being told they are stupid, so using examples about sheep is much more tactful.
Sheep get very easily disorientated.
Sheep can't defend themselves.
Sheep follow like.... sheep.
Sheep have a very short attention span.
Sheep panic.
Saturday Apr 15, 2017
Easter Vigil - is resurrection credible?
Saturday Apr 15, 2017
Saturday Apr 15, 2017
Alleluia! Christ is Risen.
Here's my Easter Vigil homily, hot of the presses. It starts with the Gospel from Matthew (28:1-10)
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
Death defying
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
Sunday Mar 12, 2017
Genesis 12:1-4a Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 Matthew 17: 1-9
Today I visited Hall Green United Community Church, which includes Methodists and Moravians in its congregation. I preached as part of a pulpit exchange we have in Hall Green to mark the week of Prayer for Christian Unity - but I couldn't visit during January, so was invited today, the Second Sunday of Lent. I was surprised to find that I mentioned "death" eleven times. Well, we Christians are not afraid of death, are we?
Monday Feb 20, 2017
Good News, not fake news
Monday Feb 20, 2017
Monday Feb 20, 2017
Monday 20th February 2017 Mark 9: 14-29 Jesus cures a boy suffering from seizures.
People thought Jesus might be Moses come back to save The People again. Here's an example of why they might have thought this.
And there's arguing, dissent, shouting crowds, fake news. It's all here....
Tuesday Feb 14, 2017
The Nazis - a Warning from Prague
Tuesday Feb 14, 2017
Tuesday Feb 14, 2017
In the heart of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, lies the Church of Ss Cyril and Methodius. This ancient church stands as a Christian response to the terrible atrocities inflicted in that place and across Europe by extreme nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s. Now it is memorial to those who died fighting fascism and a place of national and international reconciliation ...