The Selsey Podcast

Today’s homily: St Edmund, King & Martyr (2025)

St Edmund, King and Martyr, defended an ancient Christian England against the Great Heathen Army. Refusing to make Christ a private devotion under pagan rule, he chose fidelity over compromise and accepted a martyr’s death. His witness reveals true kingship as self-offering patterned on the Incarnation. Edmund calls us today to public faith, courage, and steadfast loyalty to Christ the King. https://nuntiatoria.org/

Today’s homily: Dedication of the Basilicas of SS Peter & Paul (2025)

The feast honours the ancient basilicas built over the tombs of Saints Peter and Paul—sites confirmed by archaeology, venerated since the second century, and rebuilt by emperors, popes, and pilgrims. These “trophies of the Apostles” proclaim that God works through matter and history. Their dedication reveals the Church as God’s dwelling among men, calling us to fidelity as living temples of Christ. https://nuntiatoria.org/

Today’s homily: St. Hugh of Lincoln (2025)

St Hugh of Lincoln, the Carthusian turned bishop, rebuilt souls and cathedral alike with justice, charity, and fearless compassion—so gentle that even the fierce swan of Stow bowed to him. St Gregory the Wonderworker shows the same holiness in miracles and apostolic fire. Both kept the Gospel’s watchfulness and urge us to live ready for Christ’s coming with faith, courage, and purity of heart. https://nuntiatoria.org/

Today’s homily: St. Edmund Rich of Canterbury (2025)

St Edmund Rich shone like the morning star: a scholar-bishop who invested every talent for Christ, defended the Church’s liberty against king and legate, and embraced holiness in Cistercian humility. His feast, with the Sunday’s call to vigilance, urges us to break the nets of sin, reject fear, be faithful in little things, and watch for the Lord’s coming, as Edmund did, until hearing: “Well done, good and faithful servant.” https://nuntiatoria.org/

Today’s homily: St Didacus of Alcalá (2025)

St. Didacus of Alcalá, humble Franciscan lay brother, shows that true wisdom lies not in learning but in the light of Christ. In an age of pride and confusion, his hidden holiness teaches us the power of humility and fidelity to the Cross. https://nuntiatoria.org/

Today’s homily: St Martin of Tours (2025)

St Martin of Tours, soldier turned monk and bishop, evangelised Gaul through humility and charity, seeing Christ in the poor. St Mennas, soldier-martyr, confessed Christ under torture, converting his persecutor. Both reveal the one light of faith—active in mercy, steadfast in witness, and needed now as ever for the re-Christianisation of our world. https://nuntiatoria.org/

Today’s homily: St Andrew Avellino (2025)

St Andrew Avellino (1521–1608), once a Neapolitan lawyer, repented a single lie and vowed never again to follow his own will but to advance daily in holiness. Joining the Theatines in 1556, he became novice master, counsellor to St Charles Borromeo, and model of priestly perseverance. Struck by apoplexy while beginning Mass, he died at the altar. Canonised in 1712, he is patron against sudden death and exemplar of steadfast sanctity. https://nuntiatoria.org/

Today’s homily: Dedication of the Lateran Basilica (2025)

The Lateran, mother of all churches, proclaims the Incarnation’s truth: God dwells with men. As relics reveal grace in matter, so Our Lady—Co-Redemptrix and living temple—shows creation sanctified. Let every soul, like hers, become a dwelling place of the Eternal Word. https://nuntiatoria.org/

Today’s homily: St Willibrord of Utrecht (2025)

St Willibrord, Northumbrian monk and Apostle to the Frisians, united Irish missionary zeal with Roman order. Trained at Ripon and sent by Rome, he evangelised pagan Frisia, founded Utrecht and Echternach, and prepared Europe’s conversion. His courage, fidelity, and holiness challenge today’s Church to reject compromise, preach truth boldly, and rekindle the apostolic spirit that once transformed nations. https://nuntiatoria.org

Today’s homily: Understanding ”Coredemptrix”, the Incarnation and our salvation (2025)

Mary is Co-redemptrix through her unique cooperation in the Incarnation, giving flesh to the Word by her fiat. What was accomplished bodily in her is to be accomplished spiritually in us: through Baptism and grace, we too are called to let Christ live in us. Her perfect union of faith and obedience reveals our vocation—to cooperate with divine grace until body and soul are restored in holiness. https://nuntiatoria.org/2025/11/04/rome-redefines-mary-from-co-redemptrix-to-mater-populi-fidelis/