Cardinal's Homilies

Today we celebrate the great Feast of the Most Holy Eucharist. It is a feast of unbounded joy for it is the Feast of the Love of God for us all, the love shown in Jesus.  St Thomas Aquinas speaks in these words: 'It was to impress the vastness...Read more

This is such a good day on which to celebrate our Communications Day Mass. St Augustine of Canterbury is a fine patron for our work for he showed many of the characteristics that we too need.  The words of St Paul set the scene. It is God, say...Read more

This is a wonderfully formal ceremony, rich in content and significance. Perhaps for the next few minutes I can be a little less formal and a little more personal. It is a great privilege and pleasure to take on this role as Chancellor. There h...Read more

A couple of weeks ago Andy Murray beat his old rival Rafa Nadal on the clay courts of Madrid. Full of the excitement of his victory he wrote these words on the lens of a nearby TV camera: 'Marriage works!'  Sports commentators didn't know how...Read more

On this feast of the Ascension of the Lord, we take a further major step in our celebration of the Paschal Mystery, the exploration of our Easter faith.  I am delighted to be celebrating this great Feast here in the Church of Our Lady of the Ass...Read more

In our first reading this evening, we have heard these bold words of St Peter: 'God does not have any favourites, but anyone who fears God and does what is right is acceptable to God!' What amazing words these must have been to their first hearer...Read more

This moment evokes many memories for me, memories particularly of Avila. I can see so clearly walls of the city, glistening in the strong sunlight. I can taste again the suckling pig, so proudly served to hungry visitors. And I can almost smell th...Read more

Our Vigil this evening started in a very deep darkness, and in many ways that is a harsh reality because there is much darkness in our lives. With the violence in Kenya, the wretchedness of those who have been forced away from their homes, and now...Read more

Just a few days at a Requiem Mass for Richard III, I was privileged to wear a vestment that was 600 years old. It was beautiful. It was a work of devotion and love for Our Lord by people many hundreds of years ago who had in their hearts the same ...Read more

In these days of Holy Week, in which we follow the last days of our Lord's life, we are in the midst of a great human drama. Some people call it 'the greatest story ever told'. It is the journey of Jesus to His death and to His resurrection....Read more

This evening we fulfil a profound and essential Christian duty: that of praying for the dead, for the repose of their eternal souls. Here we pray for King Richard III, 'King of England and France and Lord of Ireland' to use a title he ascribed to ...Read more

My brothers and sisters, we are gathered in this Cathedral or joining in through the media, to remember the extraordinary life of King Richard III and to pray for the eternal repose of his soul.  Two moments in this ceremony, so rich in meanin...Read more

Many of you will have seen the film 'The Passion of the Christ'. You will not have forgotten the scene of Christ being scourged at the pillar. You will vividly recall, as I do, the action of the women appearing at the end of the flagellation who, ...Read more