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Taking the Higher Ground

Torch

Torch provides a new Catholic homily each week written specially for this web site by Dominican friars, and read by followers worldwide. Read more.

Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)  |  Deacon Luke Doherty ponders the hard choices that must be made to take

Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time (B)  |  Fr Robert Eccles considers the shocking language and imagery of the Eucharist, and

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary  |  Fr Benedict Jonak says that the feast of the Assumption reveals the

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) | Fr David Rocks exhorts us to patience and prayerful attention to Christ’s teaching

Solemnity of St Dominic | Fr Robert Verrrill reflects on St Dominic as “ivory of chastity” and asks that the

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)  |  Fr John O'Connor suggests that a relationship with God heals our restless hearts,

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)  |  Fr David Goodill explains the prophetic significance and the symbolic power of Christ's

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)  |  Rev. Br Toby Lees ponders the divisions manifest in the world today, and

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)  |  Fr Leon Pereira reminds us of the true prophetic witness that we Christians

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)  |  Fr Richard Finn ponders the rejection that every preacher of the Gospel must

Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul  |  Fr Peter Harries considers the significance of the feast of St Peter and St Paul.  Today’s

Thirteenth Sunday of the Year  |  Fr Timothy Radcliffe rejoices that Jesus leads us from isolation to communion and friendship. Two