Homily Notes

Homily notes: The Most Holy Trinity Year C

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 5 June 2025

The sense of Three Persons in the One God came into being as a way of expressing the Christian sense of being drawn into the divine communion of love.

Homily notes: Pentecost Sunday Year C

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 30 May 2025

The Spirit communicates to believers a sense of the intimacy with God that is theirs as sons and daughters in union with Christ.

Homily notes: The Ascension of the Lord Year C

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 20 May 2025

The Ascension is the feast that celebrates the hope that Jesus’ triumph will ultimately be ours as well. Feast of the Ascension Year C, 1 June 2025.

Homily notes: 6th Sunday of Easter Year C

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 19 May 2025

Believers will have a sense of Jesus’ presence through three things – love, the Holy Spirit and peace. Sixth Sunday of Easter Year C, 25 May 2025.

Homily notes: Fifth Sunday of Easter Year C

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 11 May 2025

In the Fourth Gospel, the glory of God, revealed in this terrifying and remote way to the Israelites, has now been made manifest in the human flesh of Jesus.

Homily notes: 4th Sunday of Easter Year C

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 1 May 2025

Those most vulnerable are those whose shepherds are not strong but the Christian community need have no fear in this regard. Their Shepherd is strong with the strength of God.

Homily notes: Third Sunday of Easter Year C

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 23 April 2025

In today’s Gospel, fishers of fish are transformed into fishers of people.

Homily notes: Easter Sunday and Second Sunday of Easter

Fr Brendan Byrne SJ 13 April 2025

The ‘disciple whom Jesus loved’, who enters the empty tomb of Jesus and believes, is the representative for all of us – believers of subsequent generations. Easter Sunday Year C. Also homily notes for the Second Sunday of Easter Year C, 27 April 2025.