The Selsey Podcast

Today’s homily: Holy Innocents (2025)

The Feast of the Holy Innocents reveals that the Incarnation immediately provokes violence: the Child draws blood. Though Herod passed from history, his logic endures wherever children are sacrificed to power, ideology, or convenience. Today this includes abortion up to birth, the sexualisation of children, and medical experimentation such as puberty blockers. The Innocents judge our age and summon the faithful to repentance, courage, and public action in defence of children. https://nuntiatoria.org/2025/12/28/todays-mass-december-28th-feast-of-the-holy-innocents/

Today’s homily: St John the Beloved, Evangelist (2025)

Within the radiant stillness of the Christmas Octave, the Church sets before us Saint John the Evangelist—the disciple who remained. Resting upon the Heart of Christ, standing beneath the Cross, and testifying to the Word made flesh, John teaches that fidelity is born of intimacy with Christ. Christmas is not sentiment but confession: the Child is God, and only those who remain with Him can truly bear witness to the Light. https://nuntiatoria.org/2025/12/27/todays-mass-december-27th-st-john-the-evangelist-apostle/

Today’s homily: Christmas Day: Mass of the King (2025)

The Third Mass of Christmas is the Mass of the King. The Child born in Bethlehem bears government upon His shoulder from the first moment of His Incarnation. The Epistle proclaims His eternal sovereignty, the Gospel reveals the Word through whom all things were made, and the Church kneels in bodily confession of His rule. The Magi seal the mystery: kings adore the King. Christmas is not sentiment, but allegiance to Christ who reigns even from the crib. https://nuntiatoria.org/2025/12/25/todays-mass-december-25th-third-mass-of-the-nativity-of-our-lord/

Today’s homily: Feria III of Advent IV (2025)

Are YOU ready... for Judgement? For the return of the King? How much do you love your family, friends, neighbours... enough to tell them the REAL meaning of Christmas? Of their need for a Saviour? Of their need to repent? Of their need for Jesus? Are you a "voice crying in the wilderness" preparing the Way of the Lord? If not, why not? Now is the time. https://nuntiatoria.org/

Today’s homily: St Thomas, Apostle (transferred) (2025)

St Thomas' words of adoration and worship, "My Lord and My God" challenge us to "Put Christ back into Christmas" - it is not enough recognise and adore the Manger and the Incarnate Word made Flesh on Christmas Day if we don't continue to mention Him and include Him in our Christmas celebrations and manifest the Love He brings through our lives to others. https://nuntiatoria.org/

Today’s homily: Sunday Advent IV (2025)

Advent IV in the Tridentine Rite stands on the threshold of the Incarnation. The Church cries Rorate, coeli, confessing that sin delays grace and repentance hastens mercy. John the Baptist prepares the way by calling the world to conversion, while Mary receives the dew of heaven in silence and faith. Advent rejects sentiment and demands preparation: humility, fidelity, confession, and readiness for Emmanuel who comes to judge and to save. https://nuntiatoria.org/

Today’s homily: Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (2025)

This homily presents the Feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary as a lesson in holy waiting. Mary teaches faithful patience, receptivity, and obedience as God enters history quietly through her womb. Her expectant silence rebukes a modern culture of immediacy and control, and recalls both the Church and the faithful to a Marian posture: bearing Christ through fidelity, trust, and hope as they prepare their hearts for Emmanuel. https://nuntiatoria.org/

Today’s homily: St Eusebius of Vercelli (2025)

Saint Eusebius stands as a witness to fidelity under trial, refusing compromise when truth was threatened from within the Church itself. His endurance in exile and suffering mirrors the Church’s call in every age to wait in hope while standing firm in doctrine. In Advent, his witness reminds us that Christian joy is born not of ease, but of confident expectation: the Lord draws near, and fidelity is never in vain. https://nuntiatoria.org/

Today’s homily: Octave Day of the Conception of Our Lady (2025)

If God began the world’s redemption by creating one pure creature, then He desires to continue that redemption by purifying many. Mary is not an exception that excuses us; she is a sign that the human heart was made for holiness. What God did in her uniquely, He desires to begin in us by grace: a new creation, a dawn, a return to innocence. https://nuntiatoria.org/

Today’s homily: Gaudete Sunday Advent III (2025)

Gaudete Sunday interrupts Advent’s sobriety with a command to rejoice, not from sentiment but from proximity: the Lord is near. The Church rejoices because salvation is already at work. St John the Baptist teaches joy through humility and self-effacement, while the Octave of the Immaculate Conception shows Christ already dwelling silently in Mary. True joy is born from repentance, ordered peace, and readiness to receive the coming Saviour. https://nuntiatoria.org