Christmas (18)

This feast reminds us that God does not wait for us to belong before coming close, but meets us while we are still searching, travelling, and asking questions.

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Epiphany places before us a simple but demanding image: a light seen at a …

The Holy Name of Jesus is the centre of this feast and the centre of our life. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, fellow Jesuits, and friends of the Society, today we celebrate not an idea but a name that was chosen carefully, lived faithfully, and trusted completely.

When …

The readings this morning are about recognising who Christ is, who we are not, and learning to remain with him now that he has come close.

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, dear friends, Christmas keeps asking us a simple but demanding question. Not “what happened?”, but …

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, as a new calendar year begins, the Church places before us a woman and a child and asks us to begin here.

We come into this year carrying many things. Relief that a difficult year has ended. Concern about what has not changed. Questions …

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, this is the last day of the year. Before we make plans for tomorrow, the Church asks us to listen again to the beginning of John’s Gospel, so that we can understand where our lives come from and where they are meant to go.

Many of us come …

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, dear friends, the days after Christmas feel different. Things slow down. The celebrations ease. The world treats Christmas as a single day and quickly moves on, but the Church does not. She insists that Christmas is a season, not a …

This morning’s readings speak of how God teaches us, slowly and patiently, to recognise the light by learning how to love.

Dear brothers in Christ, these days within the Octave of Christmas have the feel of a long, quiet gaze. The feast itself has passed, the noise has …

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, it is good to be with you this morning. Today’s feast touches something very close to the heart of African life. God chooses to come to us through family — not only the small household, but the wider family that carries us, names us, and …

This homily is about how love shapes the way we see, and how learning to see rightly changes how we live.

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, dear friends, these days of Christmas move quickly. One feast follows another, and before we have settled into the joy of the …

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the child born in the light of Christmas is followed at once by a man who dies in that same light, refusing to let it be extinguished.

We would happily linger at the manger. We would keep the night soft, the light gentle, the world hushed …

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Christmas Day asks us to look again at the world we thought we knew, and to notice that God has already stepped into it. Not from above, not from far away, but from within.

Our first reading from the prophet Isaiah gives us an image full …

This morning tells us that God enters the world quietly, chooses the poor, and asks us to return to our lives changed.

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Christmas at dawn meets us before the day has properly begun. The world is still tired. Some worries have not yet …

The night has a way of telling the truth. When the streets grow quiet, the noise inside us often grows louder. Worries we have kept busy during the day begin to speak. Regrets knock. Hopes feel thin. And so we gather here, in the deep hush of Christmas night, in our own …

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, tonight we stand before a mystery: God keeps his promises by coming among us as a silent child, asking not to be explained but to be welcomed.

As Advent reaches its final watch tonight, Christmas Eve does not begin with noise or drama. It …

Tonight, we gather in joyful anticipation, standing on the threshold of a profound mystery that brings beings from heaven and earth to rejoice—from angels to shepherds, from kings to lowly animals. This is the night when the eternal promise of salvation takes flesh, the …

Tonight, we gather on this sacred night to celebrate the eve of our Savior’s birth and to mark the opening of the 2025 Jubilee. This is no ordinary night—it is a night that bridges heaven and earth, light and darkness, promise and fulfillment. We stand at the threshold …

Last week I spoke about Christmas and I used Star Wars as an example. But in case I confused you all – today I want to speak about Peace; because today I think we are being asked to remember three things, a blessing of peace, a call to non-violence and unity, and …

Let me say again Merry Christmas, and I hope everyone had a good night, and that Santa’s new built-in sleigh-GPS is working and that he managed to find all of your chimneys!

I would like to say a few words today about our readings – and how they convey the Good …