Homilies help unlock the scriptures. Hearing them again may reinforce your personal understanding, also useful for Bible study.
"How can I [understand] unless someone instructs me?" Acts 8:31

some homilies and transcripts available from mid March 2020 click here

There is much in our archive worth listening to while public Masses are unavailable
for reflection, inspiration, RCIA, reference etc, to help with understanding of each liturgical year's scripture readings

nb: Dominican Friars Torch website has a current Catholic homily each week
other homily and reflection external links are in green panel below.

From 2020, more homilies by former parish priest Fr. Cormac Breathnach are being added from our audio archive click here or scroll down This will take a considerable time to complete. Please do revisit occasionally.

Audio content here includes some pastoral letters, readings and music, with 339+ items available.

• 2019-20 Year A (Matthew) March onwards - for previous Year A homilies use 2013-14 & 2010-11 below.

• For 2018-19 = Year C (Luke) use 2015-16, 2012-13 and 2009-10 below. 

• For 2017-18 = Year B (Mark) use 2014-15 and 2011-12 below. 

• For 2016-17 = Year A (Matthew) use 2013-14 and 2010-11 below.

• 2015-16 Year C (Luke): Advent onwards then see below for year C in 2012-13 & 2009-10

• 2014-15 Year B (Mark): 76 items available to listen again Advent to February 20 items \ Lent to Corpus Christi 23 items \ 14th June to Christ the King 33 items (2011-12 was year B).

• 2013-14 Year A (Matthew): 60 items Advent 2013 to Lent 2014 & Easter 2014 onwards (see 2010-11 year A below )

• 2012-13 Year C (Luke): 92 items Advent 2012 to Lent 2013 | Lent to Pentecost | Trinity Sunday 2013 onwards

• 2011-12 Year B (Mark): 67 items Advent | Christmastide | Ordinary time(#1) | Christian Unity Service | Lent | Easter to Pentecost | Trinity Sunday onwards, ordinary time #2

• 2010-11 Year A (Matthew): 22 available.

• 2009-10 Year C (Luke): 3 available.

• 2008-09 Year B (Mark): 10 homilies August - November.

•  Additions in 2020 by Fr. Cormac Breathnach from our archives: Notes are provided by parishioners.

• 2000 1 now available ... 'The gospels are clear that our God is compassion and love'

• 2001 3 now available ... on Temptation and Judgment ~ of others; & on God's mercy; from Lent 2001; The Annunciation of The Lord 25/03/01;

• 2004 4 (and other content) now available.

• External links: Pope Francis' Homily at Inauguration Mass of Petrine Ministry 19th March 2013
  Sermon at Inauguration of Ministry of 105th Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Portal Welby 21st March 2013

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"Go out to the whole world, and proclaim the good news to all creation" Mark 16:15  -|- "The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, "What a lovely sermon!" but, "I will do something!" ~ St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Doctor of the Church; = "Go in peace to glorify the Lord by your lives" - Mass dismissal ; "We are the sermons the world is heeding." ~ Billy Graham -|- "Preaching is thirty minutes in which to raise the dead." ~ John Ruskin -|- "Preaching should break a hard heart and heal a broken one." ~ John Newton -|- "It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless we preach as we walk." ~ St. Francis of Assisi -|- "To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer." ~ St. Thomas Aquinas -|- "Every sermon should be an agony of the soul, a passion to beget Christ in the souls of men." ~ St. John Chrysostom -|- Faith cometh by hearing....Romans 10-17