The Selsey Podcast

St Jerome’s greatness lay not merely in knowing Scripture, but in allowing Scripture to judge and transform him. His feast calls us to more than correct belief or attachment to Tradition: the Word of God must possess us, purify us, and shape our lives, so that we too may one day say with St Paul, “I have kept the faith.” https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/09/30/todays-homily-st-jerome-of-bethlehem/

Veritas non mutatur consensu — truth is not altered by agreement. This spiritual conference considers what that principle means not only for the crises confronting the Church and society, but for the individual Catholic soul. Drawing upon the Sunday Gospel, the traditional understanding of the Mass, St Michael and the Guardian Angels, and the saints of the week, it argues that truth must be receiv...

The Apostles ask, “Who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” Saint Michael’s very name supplies the answer: Quis ut Deus? — “Who is like unto God?” From the angelic rebellion to Daniel’s vision of spiritual warfare, from Christ’s victory over Satan to the Guardian Angels and the worship surrounding the altar, the feast teaches that victory begins with humility, obedience and adoration. The Christ...

St Wenceslaus ruled amid the violent struggle for the Christian soul of tenth-century Bohemia and was murdered in a conspiracy centred upon his own brother. His martyrdom gives striking flesh to Christ’s warning that a man’s enemies may be those of his own household. Yet today’s Mass reveals the deeper victory: through the palm of martyrdom, the prince who lost an earthly throne received a heavenl...

The Gospel of the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost joins the two great commandments to Christ’s question, “What think you of Christ?” The homily shows that Christian charity is ordered love: God first, neighbour loved in God, truth joined to charity, and Christ confessed not merely as teacher but as Lord. The practical challenge is to surrender the divided parts of life which we still withhold f...

The feast of Our Lady of Walsingham gathers together Bethel, Nazareth, Loreto and England’s own Holy House to reveal one great mystery: God desires to dwell with man. Through Mary’s Fiat, the Word took flesh; through grace, the Christian soul becomes His dwelling-place. Walsingham’s destruction and restoration, together with the feast of Our Lady of Ransom, become a summons to personal conversion...

The recent themes of Nuntiatoria have led us from the recovery of reality to the duty of transmission: things are what they are; what is given must be received rather than invented; the deposit must be guarded; the Kingdom of God must come first; names must not be allowed to survive after their substance has disappeared; and sound distinctions must separate development from contradiction. This wee...

St Thomas of Villanova returned to God every talent entrusted to him—learning, authority, wealth, time and strength—by spending himself for souls and the poor. His feast warns us that the gifts we bury through fear, comfort or selfishness will form part of our judgement. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/09/22/todays-homily-st-thomas-of-villanova/

St Matthew’s conversion reveals what happens when divine mercy enters the concrete accounts of a human life. The publican concerned with debts and payments becomes the Apostle of grace, teaching us that conversion touches justice, forgiveness, duty, vocation and the right use of all that God has entrusted to us. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/09/21/todays-homily-st-matthew-apostle-evangelist/

The martyrdom of St Eustace, his wife Theopista, and their sons Agapius and Theopistus reveals what it means to love God with the whole heart. United with the teaching of the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, their witness calls every Christian household to place Christ above comfort, reputation, prosperity and even life itself. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/09/20/todays-homily-st-eustace-co-mart...

St Joseph of Cupertino’s extraordinary levitations point to a greater miracle: the soul raised above earthly desires by humility, obedience and supernatural charity. The Mass teaches that charity is the wedding garment without which even faith, knowledge and remarkable gifts avail nothing; in Holy Communion, Christ Himself draws the poor and humbled soul upwards towards Heaven. https://nuntiatoria...

From serving the lepers he once shunned to receiving Christ’s wounds upon Mount Alvernia, Saint Francis shows how grace transforms a soul through obedient love. His stigmata call us to let the Cross shape our lives, beginning with the particular act of mercy or sacrifice we have been reluctant to offer. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/09/17/todays-homily-impression-of-the-stigmata-upon-st-francis/

Wednesday in Michaelmas Embertide gathers together the autumn harvest, the proclamation of God’s Law, and Our Lord’s warning that some battles are won only by prayer and fasting. The liturgy asks whether the grace we have received has actually borne fruit in our lives. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/09/16/todays-homily-wednesday-michaelmas-ember/

Drawing together the themes of recent Tuesday conferences, this reflection on Qui bene distinguit, bene docet considers the spiritual importance of making sound distinctions. Beginning with the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost — St Paul’s “inward man”, the healing of the man with dropsy, and Our Lord’s warning against seeking the highest place — the conference explores how pride, appetite, distrac...

On the Feast of the Seven Sorrows, the Church contemplates not merely Mary’s grief but her fidelity beneath the Cross. Through the liturgy, St Bernard, St John Damascene and St Thomas Aquinas, the homily shows that Christian resignation does not mean calling suffering good, but remaining faithful to God when suffering cannot be removed or understood. Mary’s stabat becomes the model of a faith whic...

On the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the Church proclaims not the defeat of Christ but His victory. Drawing on the Gospel, the Epistle, St Cyril, St Thomas Aquinas and St Bonaventure, this homily asks where the Cross is already present in our own lives, and whether we are resisting the very place in which Christ is asking for obedience, surrender and deeper union with His Sacrifice. h...

The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost reveals the Christian life as the work of grace from beginning to end. The soul begins by crying Miserere mihi; grace goes before and follows every good work; St Paul prays that Christ may dwell in the inward man; and the Gospel shows Our Lord healing both bodily dropsy and the deeper swelling of pride. Through the Sacrifice and Holy Communion, the humble soul...

On the fourth day within the Octave of Our Lady’s Nativity, the Church contemplates the hidden preparation of the Mother of God: her consecration, purity, Temple service and providential betrothal to St Joseph. From the Bread of the Presence to the true Bread of Life, Mary’s childhood already foreshadows the mystery of the Incarnation, while the martyrs Protus and Hyacinth show the fruit of a life...

St Nicholas of Tolentino shows that sanctity is not manufactured by austerity but received through grace and perfected by an undivided response to God. The Gospel’s “single eye,” the saint’s penitential life and charity for the Holy Souls, and the continuing Octave of Our Lady’s Nativity together teach that holiness consists in allowing grace to order every affection towards Christ, the everlastin...

This spiritual conference reflects on the central theme of Nuntiatoria CXXII: Nomen manet, res deest — “The name remains; the reality is lacking.” Beginning from the Incarnation, it argues that the Catholic Faith is necessarily embodied: words, signs, gestures, sacraments, sacred places and human actions matter because the Word was made flesh. The conference turns that principle inward, asking whe...

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the salutis exordium — the beginning of salvation — because in her birth the Mother of the Redeemer enters the world. The feast invites us to recognise how quietly divine Providence often begins its greatest works, and to imitate Mary’s humility, obedience and complete trust in God. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/09/08/todays-homily-the-nativity-of-the-bles...

St Paul urges us not to grow weary in doing good: every prayer, sacrifice, act of charity and fidelity is seed sown for eternity. Our task is to persevere in the sowing and trust God for the harvest. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/09/07/todays-homily-feria-ii-of-the-fifteenth-sunday-post-pentecost/

Death was already on the road to the grave when Christ stepped into its path. A homily for the Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost on the widow of Naim, the power of Christ to restore what seems lost, and why Catholics must never despair of their families, the Faith, or the Church. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/09/06/todays-homily-fifteenth-sunday-post-pentecost/

On the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, the Church places before us the fundamental conflict of the Christian life: flesh against Spirit, God against Mammon, anxiety against trust in Providence. Our Lord does not forbid prudence or responsible care, but warns against allowing created things to become masters of the heart. The remedy is the order of grace: Primum quærite regnum Dei — “Seek ye fir...

Pope St Pius X was raised from humble origins to the Chair of Peter and made the restoration of all things in Christ the programme of his pontificate. A parish priest at heart even as Pope, he defended the Catholic Faith against Modernism, renewed priestly formation and ecclesiastical discipline, restored sacred music, promoted frequent Holy Communion and the early Communion of children, and insis...