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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.
Urgency and Eternity
Twenty-Ninth Sunday of the Year. Fr John O'Connor invites us to commit to our prayers, and to try to see things
Perfect Gratitude
Twenty-Eighth Sunday of the Year. Fr Dominic Ryan asks us to consider what stage we have reached on the road
The Faith of the Apostles
Twenty-Seventh Sunday of the Year. Fr Dermot Morrin reminds us that faith is not just for emergencies. The apostles said to
Still Too Ugly
Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year. Fr Leon Pereira agrees with Zola that all the miracles in the world are not enough
Free Slaves of God
Twenty-Fifth Sunday of the Year. Fr Richard Ounsworth insists that God and Mammon are not the leaders of two opposing
The Lost Son
Twenty-Fourth Sunday of the Year. Fr Robert Ombres wonders who is really lost, and who is really prodigal. The parable of
Facing the Challenge
Twenty-Third Sunday of the Year. Fr Simon Gaine offers us a dose of learned realism. Jesus has had his disagreements with
Who’s the Greatest?
Twenty-Second Sunday of the Year. Fr Isidore Clarke suggests that we learn to laugh at ourselves. At a formal meal, seating
To Live is to Move
Twenty-First Sunday of the Year. Fr Colin Carr tells us that God welcomes the badly brought-up. Why does the Church get
Bodily into Eternity
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Fr Peter Clarke preaches on the need for the Doctrine of the
Waiting for God
Nineteenth Sunday of the Year. Fr Benedict Jonak encourages us to follow the example of Abraham as we look forward
Affluenza
Eighteenth Sunday of the Year. Fr Lawrence Lew suggests that Jesus has the cure for a modern ailment. Our global culture is