The Selsey Podcast

Today’s homily: St Anthony Maria Zaccaria

St Anthony Mary Zaccaria, who died aged 36, gave his life to reviving piety, founding religious orders, and establishing the 40 Hours Devotion. His life reflects today’s Gospel: giving all to follow Christ. We are called to recognize how we’ve already served God, to seek new ways to manifest His love, and to encourage piety and vocations, especially in the young. Through St Anthony’s intercession, may we discern and fulfil God’s will in every present moment.

Today’s homily: The Octave Day of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (2025)

The Octave Day of the Sacred Heart draws us into the mystery of Christ’s pierced and Eucharistic Heart, from which the Church and the Sacraments flow. We are called not only to adore but to be transformed—formed in the “inner man” after His Heart. Reparation, especially through Eucharistic adoration, responds to His wounded love. The Church must speak with the voice of that Heart, and each soul must enthrone it, living daily in sacrificial charity.https://selsey.org/2025/06/28/nuntiatoria-lx-missio-fidelis/

Today’s homily: The Eucharistic Heart of Jesus (2025)

The Feast of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus unites devotion to the Sacred Heart and the Holy Eucharist, revealing Christ’s burning love made present on the altar. Instituted by Pope Benedict XV, it honours the Heart that gives itself as Victim and Companion. Eucharistic miracles—unknown in 1921—confirm this mystery: the consecrated Host contains living heart tissue, testifying that Jesus remains truly with us, loving us to the end.https://selsey.org/2025/06/28/nuntiatoria-lx-missio-fidelis/

Today’s homily: The Octave Day of the Nativity of St John the Baptist (2025)

The Octave Day of St John the Baptist recalls his prophetic mission, foretold by Isaias and fulfilled in the naming and circumcision on the eighth day. His hidden life prepared him to proclaim Christ boldly. Like John, we are called to decrease so that Christ may increase, embracing silence, penance, and witness. Today marks the end of his octave, yet the call to prepare the way of the Lord continues in every Christian soul.https://selsey.org/2025/06/28/nuntiatoria-lx-missio-fidelis/

Today’s homily: The Commemoration of St Paul (2025)

St Paul’s conversion reveals the divine origin of the Gospel and the radical transformation grace works in the soul. Not taught by men, but by Christ Himself, Paul becomes the model of true apostleship: born in silence, formed in suffering, and sustained by the Spirit. Sent as a lamb among wolves, he bears witness through persecution and death. His life teaches us to receive, live, and proclaim the Gospel with courage, charity, and unwavering fidelity.https://selsey.org/2025/06/28/nuntiatoria-lx-missio-fidelis/

Today’s homily: SS Peter & Paul, Apostles (2025)

On the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, the Church honours the twin pillars of Apostolic faith: Peter, the rock of unity, and Paul, the missionary firebrand. Their lives—marked by repentance, bold preaching, and martyrdom—model faithful service and divine mercy. The readings remind us that grace rescues the repentant and multiplies the faithful. Commemorating the Third Sunday after Pentecost, we recall that heaven rejoices more over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just.https://selsey.org/2025/06/28/nuntiatoria-lx-missio-fidelis/

Today’s homily: The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (2025)

The Sacred Heart reveals Christ’s infinite love poured out for all through His pierced side—blood and water, the Church’s life. Against cold heresies like Calvinism and Jansenism, this feast proclaims divine mercy, calling us to Eucharistic adoration and reparation. To love the Sacred Heart is to be conformed to it: to forgive, suffer, and serve as Christ did. “Behold the Heart that has so loved men.” Let us return love for love.https://selsey.org/2025/06/20/nuntiatoria-lx-fidelis-restauratio/#the-feast-of-the-sacred-heart-of-jesus-friday-after-the-octave-of-corpus-christi

Today’s homily: Octave Day of Corpus Christi (2025)

On this Octave Day of Corpus Christi and feast of Saints John and Paul, we reflect on the Eucharist as the source of martyrdom and the sanctification of the domestic church. These Roman martyrs bore witness in their own home, showing that true fidelity begins in the family. Fed by the Bread of Life, they feared not death but dishonour. So must our families be sanctuaries of truth, confessing Christ boldly, that He may acknowledge us before the angels of God.https://selsey.substack.com/p/the-rule-of-feeling-how-emotionalism

The Forgotten Premise of Equality

What does it mean to say that every human life has value—no matter how small, how old, how dependent, or how unseen? This reflection begins not with dogma, but with the quiet dignity of being human. https://selsey.substack.com/p/the-forgotten-premise-of-equality

Today’s homily: The Nativity of St John the Baptist (2025)

The Nativity of St John the Baptist proclaims that every life is willed by God and called to a purpose. John was known, named, and sent from the womb—a pattern true for each soul. In discerning and surrendering to God’s will, we find our true vocation. Amidst recent UK laws permitting abortion to birth and moves toward assisted suicide, the Church must witness to the sanctity of life from conception to natural death, echoing John's call to prepare the way of the Lord.https://selsey.substack.com/p/legally-dead-the-collapse-of-moral