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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.

Lent - Holy Thursday, Torch

Holy Thursday. Fr Lawrence Lew ponders on the symbolism of footwashing. My mother used to remind me before every meal to wash

Lent - Palm Sunday, Torch

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord. Fr Gregory Murphy encourages us to arise with Christ and follow him

Lent - 5th Sunday, Torch

Fifth Sunday of Lent. Fr David McLean suggests a way in which we can imitate Christ in his raising of

Lent - 4th Sunday (Laetare), Torch

Fourth Sunday of Lent. Fr Aelred Connelly shares with us the lessons he learned from his parents. I am writing this

Lent - 3rd Sunday, Torch

Third Sunday of Lent. Fr John Farrell assures us that sacramental grace never runs dry. Out of the heat haze in an

Lent - 2nd Sunday, Torch

Second Sunday of Lent. Fr Benjamin Earl wonders why we read about the Transfiguration during Lent. Every year on this second

Lent - 1st Sunday, Torch

First Sunday of Lent. Fr David Goodill takes us from Eden to the Cross, by way of a high mountain. Last

Lent - Ash Wednesday, Torch

Ash Wednesday. Fr Jonathan Fleetwood places today's penitential actions in the context of the reconciliation that Christ has effected between God

09th Sunday of the Year, Torch

Ninth Sunday of the Year. Fr Denis Geraghty reminds us of the importance of knowing, and of being known. Matthew 7.21-27,

08th Sunday of the Year, Torch

Eighth Sunday of the Year. Fr David Rocks has been reading Tolstoy. Writing against the background of czarist Russia, Leo Tolstoy's

07th Sunday of the Year, Torch

Seventh Sunday of the Year. Fr Fergus Kerr wonders whether our society is ready to hear the extraordinary challenge of

06th Sunday of the Year, Torch

Sixth Sunday of the Year. Fr Euan Marley suggests that St Thomas Aquinas's teaching on anger helps us to understand