Liturgical Index
Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday)
Cycle: A - 12th December 2010: Look!
'Don't think, but look!'
The Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, with this advice, was trying to get us to consider things as they are in... more »
Our gospel reading is about expectations that go unstated. Also about greater expectations than any of us can really imagine. Well, what did you... more »
Jesus tells us in today's gospel:Among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist.Yet John the Baptist is puzzled. For... more »
Cycle: A - 16th December 2001: Answering John
There are many ways of asking questions, and there are probably just as many ways of answering them. How a particular question is answered depends on... more »
Cycle: B - 11th December 2011: I Am Not
St John's Gospel is very clear about the divine identity
of Christ. The prologue to the Gospel, a small part of which we read today,
speaks of... more »
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." So begins the Gospel of John with a stunning discourse on the... more »
Cycle: B - 11th December 2005: Into the Desert
The figure of John the Baptist is introduced solemnly by John the Evangelist in his Gospel in a manner that parallels the first verse, 'In the... more »
When we are baptised, and again at our Confirmation, we are anointed to share in Christ's threefold ministry of prophet, priest and king. And a great... more »
“What shall we do?” Various groups of people go to John the Baptist to ask him for moral instruction because they recognize his wisdom... more »
It's tempting to think that morality is all about education: if people really knew what the right thing was to do, they would do it. Parents make... more »
Pregnancy is always an anxious time. There is joy, one hopes, the delightful prospect of a child coming into the world, but also certainly anxiety,... more »
I was halfway through preaching a parish mission. One of those attending the evening services told me that she liked my sermons, but then complained... more »
Cycle: C - 17th December 2000: A Dancing God
You surely know the one about the atheist professor of sociology whose wife gave birth to twins: he had one them baptised and kept the other as a... more »
