Cardinal's Homilies

On this Feast of St Barnabas, we have listened to the passage from the Acts of the Apostles telling us about his part in the birth of the early Church, along with Saul, shortly to become Paul. They are among the many figures that appear in this...Read more

Today we celebrate the start of the adventure of the Church. It is our birthday, the day we remember how frightened apostles became bold, how the message of our healing and wholeness began to be offered to a needy world. Today, as St Paul tells...Read more

On the inside of the cover of our Mass booklet today is the list of 19 names. These are the names of the priests of this diocese who died during the Covid-19 pandemic, in the years 2020 and 2021. Today we remember them afresh and together commend...Read more

The prayers of the Mass we celebrate during Eastertide often speak of the joy that fills our hearts at the Resurrection of our Blessed Lord. This is, indeed, the season of joy. And today, as we celebrate these anniversaries of priestly ordination...Read more

I offer this first word of welcome to you all as we gather for this Memorial Service here in Westminster Cathedral. Some of you may be very familiar with this great Cathedral; some only occasionally stepping inside its great doors; for some, you...Read more

On Friday I was walking in St James' Park. It was glorious: warm sunshine, the grass crowned with daisies, blossom in abundance, bubbles being blown into the air and people, lots and lots of people enjoying a beautiful spring day, together and...Read more

My brothers and sisters, there is such joy in our being here tonight. For two long years in the face of the pandemic we have stayed apart. But in these days of Holy Week, this Cathedral has again been full, even as it is this evening. Here I have...Read more

We have knelt in silence, marking the moment of the death of Jesus. We have heard the solemn proclamation of the words: 'It is accomplished'. Now, for us, the cross is no longer simply an instrument of torture but a sign of victory. That...Read more

Today marks the end of Lent. Its forty days are done, days we have tried, though probably failed, to mark with penance, prayer and extra charity. Now a new moment opens up. To understand this moment well, we need to look back. In the Reading from...Read more

Today there is one image, one phrase of just two words, that I invite you to keep in mind: faithful witness. In these two words are summed up the purpose of the incarnation and the vocation of each one of us. Before Pilate Jesus said: 'I was...Read more

Lord our God, we have strayed from that path of peace. We have forgotten the lesson learned from the tragedies of the last century, the sacrifice of the millions who fell in two world wars. We have disregarded the commitments we made as a...Read more

Given onPalm Sunday,10 This morning we cross the threshold of Holy Week. Now we begin to journey with our Blessed Lord in the final days of his earthly life. Now we follow him, step by step, through all the events put before us by St Luke in the...Read more

Introduction My brothers and sisters, I welcome you to this Mass on the Feast of the Annunciation and to this solemn Act of Consecration to the Mother of God, whose readiness to do God's will is the cause of this celebration. I welcome the...Read more

My dear sisters and brothers in Jesus Christ, it is our belief and joy that every celebration of the Sacred Liturgy, this included, opens for us a glimpse of heaven. This glimpse can be sensed, sometimes in the splendour of the liturgical actions...Read more