Fr. Peter Crowe Homilies

Saint Andrew-Holy Friendship! 30.11.2024 9:14 ↓

From a homily on the Gospel of John by Saint John Chrysostom, bishop (Hom. 19, 1: PG 59, 120-121) We have found the Messiah After Andrew had stayed with Jesus and had learned much from him, he did not keep this treasure to himself, but hastened to share it with his brother. Notice what Andrew said to him:  We have found the Messiah, that is to say, the Christ.  Notice how his words reveal what he...

Get up! Jesus is calling you 30th Sunday Ordinary Time 27.10.2024 9:30 ↓

Gospel: Mark 10:46-52 Quote from St John Chrysostom: "'Many rebuked him, telling him to be silent. As people have done to you, when you sensed that Jesus was passing your way. Your heart beat faster and you too began to cry out, prompted by an intimate longing. Then your friends, the need to do the done thing, the easy life, your surroundings, all conspired to tell you: 'Keep quiet, don't cry out....

Imitate the Apostles, not the rich man: 28th Sunday Ordinary Time 13.10.2024 14:04 ↓

Gospel: Mark 10:17-30 As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus answered him, "Why do you call me good?  No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments:  You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you shall not defrau...

Be a child, but not childish! 25th Sunday Ordinary Time 22.09.2024 11:51 ↓

Mark 9:30-37 Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it. He was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.” But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him. They came to...

Carry Your Cross! 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time 15.09.2024 11:16 ↓

Mk 8:27-35 Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi.  Along the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"  They said in reply, "John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets."  And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?"  Peter said to him in reply, "You are the Christ."  Then he warned...

God heals in the Sacraments-23rd Sunday Ordinary Time 08.09.2024 11:58 ↓

Mark 7:31-37 Again Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis.  And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him off by himself away from the crowd.  He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; then he looked up to heaven and groane...