02 Aug 2015
Homily for Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Homily for Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The word ent has deep roots in the English language. It is Anglo-Saxon (Old English) for ‘giant’. Most people today know it from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and the films based on this. In the second volume, The Two Towers, we meet strong, giant, tree-like shepherds of the forest, most notably in the person of Treebeard.

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30 Jul 2015
Homily for Mass for Feast of St Ignatius of Loyola

Homily for Mass for Feast of St Ignatius of Loyola

The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure film which has become something of a ‘cult classic’. It is commonly rated amongst the top 100 comedy films of all time and has charmed audiences ever since. It is structured around a grandfather (played by Peter Falk a.k.a. Columbo) reading a book to his sick grandson.

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