The Selsey Podcast

Today’s homily: The Immaculate Heart of Mary (2025)

On the Octave Day of the Assumption, the Church honours the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the pure vessel of grace and model of perfect love, united to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Preserved from sin, pierced with sorrow, aflame with charity, her Heart is our refuge and guide. With her we also commemorate SS Timothy, Hippolytus, and Symphorianus, martyrs whose fidelity unto death mirrors her own faithfulness and guarantees our hope of glory. https://selsey.org/2025/08/15/nuntiatoria-lxvii-veritas-lucet/

Today’s homily: St Jane Frances de Chantal (2025)

St. Jane Frances de Chantal, widow and foundress, lived the “mulier fortis” of Proverbs: faithful wife, devoted mother, and later religious mother to many. Guided by St. Francis de Sales, she sold all for the pearl of great price, founding the Visitation Order for widows and young women. Her life, falling within the Octave of the Assumption, reflects Mary’s virtues—humility, strength, and charity—and shows that true womanly dignity is found in holiness, not passing charm. https://selsey.org/2025/08/15/nuntiatoria-lxvii-veritas-lucet/

Today’s Mass: St Bernard of Clairvaux (2025)

St Bernard of Clairvaux, the Mellifluous Doctor, left the world to found Clairvaux and drew countless souls by his holiness, wisdom, and love of Christ and Mary. Famed preacher, counselor of popes, defender of the Cross, and mystic of the Sacred Humanity, he stands “in medio Ecclesiae” as last of the Fathers. Within Our Lady’s Octave his voice urges us: despise vanity, cleave to the Cross, and follow Christ with steadfast devotion. https://selsey.org/2025/08/15/nuntiatoria-lxvii-veritas-lucet/

Today’s homily: St John Eudes (2025)

St John Eudes (1601–1680), honoured within the Octave of the Assumption, lived wholly for the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Tested in plague, preaching missions with humility and Marian trust, he founded the Eudists and Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, confronting sin with mercy and forming holy priests. As apostle of the Sacred Hearts, he showed that devotion to them keeps our lamps burning, leading us, like Mary assumed, to share Christ’s eternal wedding feast. https://selsey.org/2025/08/15/nuntiatoria-lxvii-veritas-lucet/

Today’s homily: St Agapitus (Assumption Octave 2025)

St Agapitus, a boy of fifteen, defied pagan Rome and won the martyr’s crown. His witness shows what true revival means today: not surveys or sentiment, but resistance to the idols of our age—confusion about human nature, lust, broken marriage, disregard for life, conformity to lies, and worship of comfort. Revival will be real when youth, like Agapitus, choose Christ over the world, embracing purity, fidelity, sacrifice, and courage, and so share Our Lady’s incorruptible glory. https://selsey.org/2025/08/15/nuntiatoria-lxvii-veritas-lucet/

Today’s homily: St Joachim, Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary (2025)

St Joachim, humble father of Our Lady, endured rejection in the Temple yet was heard by God, becoming ancestor of the Redeemer. His patience mirrors the Publican’s humility in today’s Gospel, unlike the Pharisee’s pride. With St Laurence, who gave the Church’s treasures to the poor and died a martyr, he shows that true riches are in charity. Mary’s Assumption crowns their fidelity, proving God exalts the lowly and fills the humble with glory. https://selsey.org/2025/08/15/nuntiatoria-lxvii-veritas-lucet/

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

Yesterday’s Vigil Gospel revealed Mary’s true blessedness: not only bearing Christ, but perfectly hearing and keeping God’s Word. Today’s feast shows the fruit of that perfection—her Assumption, body and soul, into heavenly glory as the Ark of the New Covenant, crowned Queen of Heaven. In her we see the promise of our own resurrection and are called to imitate her faith, purity, and love for the “one thing necessary.”https://selsey.org/2025/08/08/nuntiatoria-lxvi-veritatem-praedicare/

Today’s homily: Day V in the Octave of St Laurence of Rome (2025)

On the fifth day of St Laurence’s Octave, with the Vigil of the Assumption and St Eusebius, the Church calls us to generous self-giving. Laurence sowed charity in martyrdom; Eusebius sowed truth in steadfast confession; Mary sowed obedience in humble service. The grain must fall and die to bear fruit—so must we die to self, keep God’s word, and follow Christ, that we may share the harvest of eternal life.https://selsey.org/2025/08/08/nuntiatoria-lxvi-veritatem-praedicare/

Today’s homily: SS Nazarius & Celsus, SS Victor I & Innocent I (2025)

SS Nazarius, Celsus, Victor, and Innocent, though from different centuries, share one witness: unwavering fidelity to Christ amid persecution. Nazarius and Celsus laboured as missionaries and died as martyrs under Nero. Pope Victor upheld liturgical unity and died for the faith. Pope Innocent, defender of orthodoxy, guided the Church through Rome’s collapse. Their lives embody the fructus martyrii—the fruit of martyrdom—calling us to patience, truth, and sacrificial love. https://selsey.org/2025/07/25/nuntiatoria-lxiv-fructus-fidei/

Today’s homily: St James the Greater (2025)

St James the Greater, first Apostle to be martyred, was transformed from fiery ambition to heroic witness, drinking Christ’s chalice in Jerusalem. Patron of pilgrims, his shrine at Compostela calls souls to conversion. St Christopher, the Christ-bearer, reminds us to carry others in charity, bearing Christ Himself. Both saints show that true greatness lies in sacrifice, service, and the Cross. May their intercession guide us on our earthly pilgrimage to heavenly glory. https://selsey.org/2025/07/18/nuntiatoria-lxiii-caritas-christi-urget-nos/