Four minute homilies
Short Sunday homilies. Read by Peter James-Smith
Episodes
249 episodes
23 Sunday A Fraternal Correction
Fraternal correction Today Jesus talks to us in the Gospel about fraternal correction. We are all brothers and sisters in the faith and we need to help each other. Last week we saw Je...
22 Sunday A Take up His Cross
Take up his Cross Last week Jesus told Peter that he was the rock on which he was going to build his Church. Today he calls him Satan. What happened? Last week Peter called Jesus the Christ...
21 Sunday A Upon this Rock
Upon this rock Jesus today in the Gospel is asking questions to his apostles: What do people say about me? There was a lot of gossip about who Jesus was. The apostles were keen to tell him ...
20 Sunday A The Canaanite woman
Canaanite woman Today we see in the Gospel a pagan woman getting from Jesus what she wanted. Even though she wasn’t a Jew, she managed a miracle from the Lord. She teaches us how to pray, h...
The Assumption
The Assumption Today we celebrate the feast day of the Assumption of our Mother to heaven. What can we say about what happened on that day? We haven’t got much information. Saint John witne...
19 Sunday A Walking on Water
Walking on water After a busy day, attending the crowd, healing the sick, comforting the troubled and feeding them, Jesus goes on to pray. While he dismisses the people, the apostles sail t...
18 Sunday A Multiplication of the Loaves & Fish
Multiplication of the loaves and the fish From time to time Jesus used to take his apostles to a deserted place to be alone by themselves. There were so many people coming and going that th...
17 Sunday A Parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl
Parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl of great value Today Jesus in the Gospel presents us two parables about the kingdom of heaven: the hidden treasure and the pearl of great value...
16 Sunday A Parable of the weeds
Parable of the weeds These Sundays the parables in the Gospel try to explain the kingdom of heaven: it is impossible. To do so we need an infinite number of parables. We should be very keen...
15 Sunday A Parable of the sower
Parable of the sower Today Jesus talks to us with a parable. Why? Because we find difficult to understand his message. He needs to use images, comparisons, material things for us to reach t...
14 Sunday A To become like children
To become like children “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to little one...
13 Sunday A Love of God
Love of God “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” It is a very strong statement. Why is Jesu...
12 Sunday A Body and Soul
Body and Soul “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.” “Be not afraid” is the vers...
11 Sunday A The harvest is plentiful
The harvest is plentiful Today in the Gospel we read that “at the sight of the crowds, Jesus’ heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without...
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi Today we are going to take Jesus to the streets. We are going to walk with him, to take a stroll with him, to accompany him around the streets of the church. And we are going...
Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity We are talking today about the summit of our Christian faith, the mystery of the Holy Trinity. When we walk through other mysteries, we need to walk on tiptoe; now we need to p...
Pentecost
Pentecost With Pentecost we come to the end of Easter. We have been preparing ourselves for a while to receive the Holy Spirit. Once a year we have the opportunity to get to know the third ...
The Ascension
The Ascension Saint Bernardine of Siena tells the story of a young fellow who went to the Holy Land and tried to follow Jesus’ footsteps. He began in Nazareth, then Bethlehem, Cana of...
Sixth Sunday of Easter The Will of God
The Will of God Today we hear in the Gospel: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” How much do I love God? How much am I ready to do anything for him? It is as simple as that. Lo...
Fifth Sunday of Easter Way, Truth and life
Way, Truth and Life Jesus was telling his disciples: I have to go and prepare a place for you, then I’ll come back and take you to myself; and you know the way. Thomas, a down ...
Fourth Sunday of Easter The Good Shepherd
The Good Shepherd Every fourth Sunday of Easter we have the Gospel of the good shepherd. Jesus is the Good Shepherd, who leads his flock to good pastures, who knows his sheep one by o...
Third Sunday of Easter Emmaus
Emmaus The road to Emmaus resembles our own journey. We are pilgrims. We can identify ourselves with these two disciples, who went back to their village, after Jesus’ death. It was all over...
Second Sunday of Easter Thomas
Thomas When Jesus came to meet the apostles after the resurrection Thomas was not there. Where was he? We don’t know. Did he go shopping? Did he go fishing? Maybe he was still running away....