Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ (B) | Fr Greg Murphy on the Eucharist as medicine that heals and changes the Christian people. Read more
Torch
Preaching by Gregory Murphy O.P.
Being Changed
Human, all too human…
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) | Fr Gregory Murphy on being able to forgive others because we truly recognise that we have been forgiven and received mercy from God. Read more
What's in a Name?
Fourth Sunday of Advent (A) | Fr Gregory Murphy looks at the fundamental choice that confronts Joseph and each of us. Read more
Who am I?
Third Sunday of Lent. fr Gregory Murphy reflects on Moses' encounter with God in the burning bush. Read more
Growing in Confidence

On not being Solomon
Sixteenth Sunday of the Year. fr Gregory Murphy explains how God's judgement is inseparable from His mercy. Read more
To Pluck Up and To Plant
Bearing the Word
Second Sunday of Advent. Fr Gregory Murphy reflects on Advent as a time of return and renewal. Read more
Staying the Course
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord. Fr Gregory Murphy encourages us to arise with Christ and follow him out of Gethsemane.
Gethsemane provides the final lesson in discipleship given by Jesus before his execution and exaltation, and that lesson is rooted in prayer.
After establishing his communion with his disciples at the last supper Jesus for once takes them with him as he withdraws to pray, further emphasising the importance of this by picking out Peter and the sons of Zebedee, those who had witnessed his transfiguration on the mountain. Jesus prays alone, as on previous nights, but asks that they remain close and support him in his distress. His prayer allows us some sense of the struggle in the soul of Jesus, and suggests why he wishes the support of those who had been closest to him in his ministry.
Read moreLiturgical Index
- First Sunday of Advent
- Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
- Second Sunday of Advent
- Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday)
- Fourth Sunday of Advent
- Christmas
- Second Sunday of Christmas
- Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
- Feast of the Holy Family
- Baptism of the Lord
- Epiphany
- Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
- Ash Wednesday
- First Sunday of Lent
- Second Sunday of Lent
- Third Sunday of Lent
- Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday)
- Fifth Sunday of Lent
- Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
- Holy Thursday
- Good Friday
- Easter Sunday
- Second Sunday of Easter (Low Sunday)
- Third Sunday of Easter
- Fourth Sunday of Easter
- Fifth Sunday of Easter
- Sixth Sunday of Easter
- The Ascension of the Lord
- Seventh Sunday of Easter
- Pentecost Sunday
- Trinity Sunday
- The Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)
- Second Sunday of the Year
- Third Sunday of the Year
- Fourth Sunday of the Year
- Fifth Sunday of the Year
- Sixth Sunday of the Year
- Seventh Sunday of the Year
- Eighth Sunday of the Year
- Ninth Sunday of the Year
- Tenth Sunday of the Year
- Eleventh Sunday of the Year
- Twelfth Sunday of the Year
- Thirteenth Sunday of the Year
- Fourteenth Sunday of the Year
- Fifteenth Sunday of the Year
- Sixteenth Sunday of the Year
- Seventeenth Sunday of the Year
- Eighteenth Sunday of the Year
- Nineteenth Sunday of the Year
- Twentieth Sunday of the Year
- Twenty-First Sunday of the Year
- Twenty-Second Sunday of the Year
- Twenty-Third Sunday of the Year
- Twenty-Fourth Sunday of the Year
- Twenty-Fifth Sunday of the Year
- Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year
- Twenty-Seventh Sunday of the Year
- Twenty-Eighth Sunday of the Year
- Twenty-Ninth Sunday of the Year
- Thirtieth Sunday of the Year
- Thirty-First Sunday of the Year
- Thirty-Second Sunday of the Year
- Thirty-Third Sunday of the Year
- Solemnity of Christ the King
- Feast of Saint Patrick
- Solemnity of St Joseph
- Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord
- Solemnity of the Birth of St John the Baptist
- Solemnity of Ss Peter and Paul
- Solemnity of our Holy Father St Dominic
- Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
- Solemnity of All Saints
- Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed
- Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
- Ordinations, Installations & Professions
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