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Torch provides a new Catholic homily each week written specially for this web site by Dominican friars, and read by followers worldwide. Read more.
Where to Begin?
Second Sunday of Advent. Fr Mark Edney sympathises with those who yearn for a new world.Many today could sure use
What Are You Going To Watch?
First Sunday of Advent. Fr Robert Verrill tells us why Jesus's death on the Cross is a little like television. Jesus
Not Of This World
Solemnity of Christ the King. Fr Anthony Axe preaches on the difference between worldly kingdoms and the Kingdom of God. History
How to Annoy Teachers
Thirty-Third Sunday of the Year. Fr Richard Ounsworth preaches on the parable of the talents. Like many priests, I am asked
Don’t Just Hang Around
Thirty-Second Sunday of the Year. Fr Haavar Simon Nilsen calls on us to long for Christ.In this Sunday's Gospel, we
Hoping to See God
Solemnity of All Saints. Fr Vivian Boland encourages us to long for the vision of God. A few days before he
Out of an Agony of Love
Thirty-First Sunday of the Year. Fr David Sanders warns today's Church, and today's Christians, against the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. In
Render to God
Twenty-Ninth Sunday of the Year. Fr Bruno Clifton offers a radical reading of Christ's saying on taxes to Caesar. Assyria and
A Feast of Reconciliation
Twenty-Eighth Sunday of the Year. Fr Allan White discusses the terms on which we participate in the Eucharistic banquet. Jesus was
Working With God
Twenty-Seventh Sunday of the Year. Fr John Patrick Kenrick suggests that today's parable is not about punishment but hope. In first century
Never Too Late
Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year. Fr Peter Hunter tells of the road paved with good intentions. My mother used to say to
Putting Food on the Table
Twenty-Fifth Sunday of the Year. Fr Richard Conrad draws out the social and economic implications of the parable of the