YEAR B

These homilies owe a great deal to the thoughts and writings of many authors much more skilled and knowledgeable than myself.

From the dim, distant days of being a student, I remember being advised that some are destined to be " springs" delivering fresh water; others are destined to be "channels" carrying the water from the spring to others. I am a channel!  But, so that the charge of plagiarism does not sit too heavily against me, I wish to mention the principal authors whose thinking has contributed so much to these random thoughts on what I think constitutes a Christian Response to various life situations.  -  Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's "Travel in Sacred Places"; The Catechism of the Catholic Church; Dom Chautard's "The Soul of the Apostolate"; Charles Brethes, "Liturgia  della Festa";  "Markings" - Homily Notes issued by Archdiocese of Chicago; A New Catechism (Revised) by the Dutch Bishops.  John MacKenzie - Dictionary of the Bible; Archbishop Suenens,  "A Christian Response"; Michel Quoist, "Living Words", "Prayers of Life"; Fr. Anthony Meredith, S. J., "Faith and Fidelity..  These and my own observations made over 54 years of active priesthood are reflected in the following homilies. 

The format for these short reflections - Buzzword, Scriptural tie-in, practical application and Scriptural reference - resulted from a comment made to me some years ago by a young American sailor.  After Mass, he approached me to say in his broad Bronx accent -"Fadder! I want to tell you; you talk good; real good! The only trouble is, no one can understand you!!!!"  So much for my slabs of abstruse and, probably, obtuse, theological presentations!

 Back to the drawing board and some advice given to me as a very young priest in Geraldton by Bishop Gummer  -"Never leave them in hell! Give them something to take home".  And so, the "Buzzword".  People remember the "Buzzword".  So successful was it that a few weeks later, the same young American sailor approached me to say   "De buzzwoird, Fadder, is good; but why do you keep us there for another eight minutes"!  Since then, I am often identified as "Father Buzzword" in parishes where I provide supply for the resident priest.

Homily - 1st Sunday of Advent - Year B, -  Buzzword  "Hope"

Homily - 2nd Sunday of Advent  Year B,  -  Buzzword - Despondency!

Homily - Third Sunday of Advent - Year B,   -  Buzzword "Shining Lights"

Homily - 4th Sunday of Advent , Year B,   -  Buzzword New Beginnings:

Homily - Christmas Year B, 2005  -  Buzzword  -  Survival:

Solemnity of Mary     -  Buzzword  New   Beginnings

Homily - Feast of the Epiphany -  Buzzword - Discovery :

Homily - Baptism of the Lord -  Year B.  -  Buzzword - Ambassadors

Homily - 1st Sunday of Lent - Year B  -  Buzzword Victory

Homily - 2nd Sunday of Lent - Year B,  - Buzzword "Highs and Lows"

Homily - 3rd Sunday of Lent - Year B,  -  Buzzword - Signs and Wonders

Homily - 4th Sunday of Lent - Year B,  -  Buzzword - Adversity

Palm Sunday - Homily Notes - Year B

Homily - 2nd Sunday of Easter - Year B, 2006 - Buzzword - "I believe"

Homily - 3rd Sunday of Easter, Year B, 2006  -  Buzzword - "Think Positive"

Homily - 4th Sunday of Easter, Year B, 2006  -Buzzword - Good Shepherd Image

Homily - 5th Sunday of Easter, Year B, 2006  -  Buzzwords - "It's not Fair"!

Homily - 6th Sunday of Easter, Year B - 2006 - Buzzword - Fulfilment

Homily - Feast of the Ascension - Year B, 2006  -  Buzzword - "Get on with it!"

Homily - Pentecost Sunday, Year B, 2006  -  Buzzword - Transformation.

Homily - Trinity Sunday - Year B, 2006  -  Buzzword  - Faith

Homily - Feast of Corpus Christi - Year B, 2006  -  Buzzword - Covenant.

Feast of the Sacred Heart 

Feast of the Transfiguration - Year B.  -  Buzzword - Highs & Lows!

Homily - 2nd Sunday in Ordinary time - Year B   -  Buzzword - Vocation - Calling

Homily - 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B,  -  Buzzword - Conversion

Homily - 4th Sunday in OT - Year B  -  Buzzword Evil

Homily - 5th Sunday in OT - Year B  -  Buzzword Healing

Homily - 6th Sunday in OT - Year B  -Buzzword Sin

Homily - 7th Sunday in OT, Year B   -  Buzzword Forgiveness

Homily - V111th Sunday in OT - Year B - Buzzword - For better, for worse!

Homily - 1Xth Sunday in O.T. - Year B  -  Buzzword - The Day of the Lord

Homily - X11th Sunday in OT - Year B  -  Buzzword - Calming the Storm:

Homily - 13th Sunday of O.T. - Year B, 2006  -  Buzzword - Death!

Homily - 14th Sunday in O.T - Year B, 2006  -  Buzzword - Tall Poppies!