The Selsey Podcast

Saint Oliver Plunkett counted the full cost of discipleship: exile, poverty, calumny, judicial injustice, and martyrdom. Yet he remained faithful to his flock, defended the Catholic Faith without compromise, and forgave his persecutors at Tyburn. His witness, together with Pope Saint Pius I and Blessed Adrian Fortescue, calls Catholics today to resist fear, heresy, and unlawful demands while carry...

On the feast of the Seven Holy Brothers and Saints Rufina and Secunda, the Church presents the Christian family as a school of martyrdom: Felicitas teaches parents to form children for heaven, her sons reveal true brotherhood in fidelity unto death, and Rufina and Secunda show that no earthly love or security may be purchased at the price of apostasy. Their witness calls Christians today to resist...

This homily presents Saints John Fisher and Thomas More as witnesses against every attempt by political power, public fashion, or ecclesiastical weakness to command the conscience against God. Applying their martyrdom to post-Christian Britain, it contrasts ceremonial Christianity with true fidelity, calling Catholics to honour lawful authority while remaining “God’s first” by the profession of th...

The Translation of St Thomas Becket’s relics in 1220 proclaimed the triumph of divine judgment over earthly power. Through the Mass propers, the homily presents Thomas as the true shepherd whose episcopal fidelity transformed courtier into confessor and priest into victim, calling the Church—especially her bishops—to defend the Faith, preserve the altar, and fear God more than men. https://nuntiat...

The readings proclaim Christ as both Priest and Victim, entering the heavenly sanctuary through His own Blood to obtain eternal redemption. From His pierced side flow Blood and water, signs of the Eucharist and Baptism. The commemorated Sunday Gospel completes the image: the Redeemer who purchases His people by His Blood also feeds them in the wilderness, prefiguring the Eucharistic Bread of Life....

Saints Peter and Paul reveal the complementary form of the apostolic Church: Peter safeguards unity and authority; Paul carries the unchanging Faith to the nations. Their missions differ, but their doctrine is one. In every age, the Church remains faithful only when authority serves Tradition, mission proceeds from truth, and the apostolic deposit is handed on intact. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/...

Excerpt from Écône Episcopal Consecrations LIVE Q&A with HE ✠Jerome Lloyd of the Old Roman Apostolate

Saint Leo II teaches that authority in the Church is stewardship of the Faith, not mastery over it. His defence of Roman primacy, condemnation of doctrinal negligence, and care for sacred worship illuminate the present SSPX crisis: there is no Faith without Tradition, no Church without the Faith, and no legitimate authority apart from fidelity to what Christ entrusted to the Apostles. https://nunt...

St Paul’s apostolate fulfilled the Gospel appointed for his feast: sent among wolves, delivered before councils, governors and kings, yet sustained by the Holy Ghost to persevere unto martyrdom. Every prison became a sanctuary, every tribunal a pulpit, and every suffering a means of carrying Christ to the nations. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/06/30/todays-homily-commemoration-of-st-paul/

On the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the Church contemplates two men transformed by grace and united in one faith, one apostolic mission, and one Roman martyrdom. Peter, strengthened after weakness, and Paul, converted from error, teach us that Christ’s truth endures, His Church cannot be overcome, and fidelity reaches its fulfilment in sacrifice. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/06/29/todays-homily...

Saint Irenaeus stands within living reach of the Apostles: a disciple of Saint Polycarp, successor of the martyred Saint Pothinus, defender of Apostolic Tradition, and witness to the Holy Eucharist. His life shows that true peace is never purchased by compromising truth, but established by receiving, confessing, and living the Faith handed down from Christ through His Church. https://nuntiatoria.o...

The icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour reveals the mystery of Calvary: the Divine Child beholds the instruments of His Passion, while Mary looks with compassion upon those for whom He will suffer. Saint John the Baptist points us to the Lamb of God; Christ crucified gives us His Mother, whose perpetual help leads sinners through repentance, sacrifice, and the Holy Eucharist to eternal salvation...

Saints John and Paul were secretly slain for refusing to compromise the Faith, yet their hidden martyrdom became one of Rome’s most enduring testimonies. Their feast teaches that Christian deliverance is not always escape from suffering, but fidelity through it: fearing God rather than men, rejecting hypocrisy, and confessing Christ openly so that He may confess us before the angels. https://nunti...

The Voice and the Word: On the rare feast of a saint's earthly birth, the Church celebrates St John the Baptist, sanctified in the womb and chosen from eternity to prepare the way for Christ. This homily reflects on St Augustine's insight that John was the Voice while Christ is the Word, challenging every Christian to imitate the Baptist's humility and fidelity by allowing Christ to increase while...

On the rare feast of a saint's earthly birth, the Church celebrates St John the Baptist, sanctified in the womb and chosen from eternity to prepare the way for Christ. Drawing deeply from the traditional Roman liturgy, this homily explores John's miraculous birth, his life of desert penance, his role as the new Elias and final prophet, his baptism of Christ in the Jordan, and his fearless martyrdo...

On Pentecost Thursday, the Church contemplates the Gift of Knowledge as the power to judge reality rightly and act upon it. Through the mission of St Augustine of Canterbury, who hesitated, turned back, and then obeyed, this homily shows how clarity must lead to action—revealing that the conversion of a nation began not in certainty, but in a decision to follow what had already been seen. https://...

On Pentecost Tuesday, the Church turns to the Gift of Understanding, by which the soul penetrates divine truth and learns to recognise the voice of Christ. In a world saturated with competing voices and spiritual confusion, this homily confronts the danger of false shepherds and forgotten truth, urging the faithful to seek the Holy Ghost’s illumination, hear the one true Voice, and enter through C...

On Pentecost Monday, Holy Mother Church prolongs the mystery of the Holy Ghost, inviting the faithful not merely to remember Pentecost but to be transformed by it. Drawing upon the Gift of Wisdom, the Station at St Peter in Chains, and Christ’s solemn warning that “men loved darkness rather than light,” this homily explores the Spirit’s work of illumination, purification, and liberation. In an age...

Pentecost is not merely remembered but lived. The descent of the Holy Ghost transforms the Apostles and calls every Christian to interior renewal. This homily explores divine indwelling, the necessity of surrender to grace, and the danger of resisting the Spirit—reminding us that true holiness comes only when the soul is set ablaze by God. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/05/24/todays-mass-may-24-pent...

In the light of the Ascension, St Bernardine of Siena reveals the Holy Name of Jesus as both a call to total renunciation and the promise of eternal reward. This homily summons the faithful to leave all for Christ’s Name, to live under His Kingship, and so to receive the hundredfold and life everlasting. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/05/20/todays-mass-may-20-st-bernardine-of-siena/

On the feast of St Dunstan of Canterbury, amid the Octave of the Ascension, we reflect upon a saint who helped restore Christian England through prayer, reform, and fearless witness before kings. Joined by the examples of St Peter Celestine’s humility and St Pudentiana’s youthful fidelity, this homily explores how true renewal begins not in politics but in holiness, calling Christians to vigilance...

A homily on the heroic witness of St Venantius of Camerino, the fifteen-year-old martyr who endured terrible tortures rather than deny Christ. Set within the Octave of the Ascension, it explores courage, fidelity, martyrdom, and Christ the True Vine, calling Christians to steadfast witness in adversity. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/05/18/todays-mass-may-18-st-venantius-of-camerino/

In the stillness between Ascension and Pentecost, St Paschal Baylon reveals the secret of sanctity: faith in Christ’s hidden Eucharistic presence. As the Church cries Exaudi Domine, the faithful are called to vigilance, adoration, and readiness—lest the Spirit come and find hearts unprepared to receive His grace. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/05/17/todays-mass-may-17-st-paschal-baylon/

On Ascension Day, the Church stands with the Apostles and Our Lady upon Olivet as Christ, the Crucified and Risen Lord, is taken into Heaven. The feast is not a farewell but a coronation: the Sacred Humanity of Christ, bearing our frail human nature, is enthroned at the right hand of the Father. Rooted in the Tridentine propers of the Missa “Viri Galilaei”, the Roman station at St Peter’s, the ext...

On the feast of St Robert Bellarmine, Holy Mother Church honours not merely a great scholar, but a saint who spoke with wisdom, courage, and fidelity in an age of doctrinal confusion and ecclesial crisis. Rooted in the liturgy of Missa “In médio”, this homily presents Bellarmine as a model of truth joined to holiness, obedience without servility, and reform without rupture, calling Catholics today...