Preaching by Aidan Nichols O.P.

fr Aidan Nichols, a well-known writer and theologian, is John Paul II Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford.

1 July 2007: Nowhere to Lay his Head

Thirteenth Sunday of the Year (C)

fr Aidan Nichols preaches on the placelessness of Christ. (Read more...)

15 August 2006: Noblesse Oblige

Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

fr Aidan Nichols preaches on the Christ-like end of Our Lady's life. (Read more...)

6 November 2005: Not just Waiting for God

Thirty-Second Sunday of the Year (A)

fr Aidan Nichols preaches on the death of Christ as the climactic moment of human history. (Read more...)

3 April 2005: Experiencing the Risen Word

Second Sunday of Easter (Low Sunday) (A)

fr Aidan Nichols suggests that faith in the tradition of the Church goes hand in hand with our experience of the Risen Christ. (Read more...)

13 June 2004: In the House of Simon

Eleventh Sunday of the Year (C)

fr. Aidan Nichols preaches on the true honour shown to Christ by the 'woman who was a sinner'. For preaching for Corpus Christi, which in Scotland is transferred to this Sunday, click here. (Read more...)

22 February 2004: Gospel Morals

Seventh Sunday of the Year (C)

fr. Aidan Nichols asks what Catholic morality really is. (Read more...)

12 October 2003: The Rich Young Man

Twenty-Eighth Sunday of the Year (B)

fr. Aidan Nichols preaches on the man who had kept all the commandments and whom Jesus loved. (Read more...)

23 March 2003: The Temple of his Body

Third Sunday of Lent (B)

fr. Aidan Nichols preaches on how the Christian experience of God transcends the limitations of law and the particularity of place. (Read more...)

4 August 2002: Mirable of Multiplication

Eighteenth Sunday of the Year (A)

fr. Aidan Nichols preaches on the meaning of Christ's miraculous multiplication of the loaves and fishes. (Read more...)

21 October 2001: The Articulation of Desire

Twenty-Ninth Sunday of the Year (C)

fr. Aidan Nichols preaches a Catholic defence of the Prayer of Petition. (Read more...)

29 June 2001: Guardian and Prophet

Solemnity of Ss Peter and Paul

fr. Aidan Nichols preaches on the apostolicity of the Roman Church. (Read more...)