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The Holy Ghost is a Catholic church, celebrating more than 60 years of serving the Catholic community in Luton.
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06/09/2026

Fr. Kevin's homily for the 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year A)

Jesus is teaching us what it means to be Christian. When Peter proclaimed Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God, Jesus had to explain that it would mean giving up his life, so that he could rise again. Then Jesus told us that we would have to take up our cross and follow him, so that we could give up our lives in order to save them.

Today, he teaches us to care for others as he did – calling them to live as he would. That, says Paul, is the only debt we should ever have.

Owe no one anything except to love one another. True love for others and for ourselves is to challenge the way we live, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Painting: One Another No. 4 by Cynthia Christine

30/08/2026

Fr. Kevin's homily for the 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year A)

Last week, it was a question of who do we think Jesus is? Today, he tells us who he is from his point of view – he will lose his life for our sake at the hands of the leaders, chief priests and scribes.

His self-giving puts to shame all selfishness and brings us the hope of the Resurrection.
If we are to follow him we have to embrace God’s point of view, as Paul tells us today: 'Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God.'

It is what we do here in the Eucharist: 'This is my body given up for you,' 'This is my blood poured out for you and for many.'

So, as St Augustine said, when you say yes/amen to the Body of Christ, you must become what you receive. But how? We each have to find our own way of giving ourself for others.

23/08/2026

Fr. Kevin's homily for the 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year A)

Today, Jesus asks Peter: "Who do you say I am?" He replies, "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God." His faith shines through so Jesus gives him a job, responsibility, the ministry to forgive sin.

Jesus asks us the same question every day – how do you answer him? Not only what words do you say to him, but how do they then shape the way you live?

Action, not words – practise what you preach. What responsibility is he giving you?

Like Peter, we too will let him down, but he calls us back each day. Every sign of the cross, every Our Father is a statement of faith. They then need to be translated into the way we live.

If you asked Jesus, 'Who do you, Jesus, say I am?' how would he answer that question. Think about that for a moment.

16/08/2026

Fr. Kevin's homily for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary

When we celebrate Mary being assumed body and soul into heaven, it becomes our hope that one day we will follow her to join the angels and the saints.

Are we are living like Mary as the first disciple, the one who does the will of God?

Her Magnificat offers us some challenges for this:

Do we glorify God and does our spirit rejoice in God our Saviour?

Are we grateful that God has looked graciously on us in our humble humanity?

Do we proclaim his name holy because of the great things he has done for us?

Do we recognise his mercy to people through the ages?

Do we see how he has scattered the proud, brought down the mighty and exalted the lowly, sending the rich away empty?

Do we help in his work of filling the hungry with good things?

Do we trust in his promises forever?

Painting: The Feast of The Assumption of The Blessed Virgin Mary by Stephen B Whatley

09/08/2026

Fr. Kevin's homily for the 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year A)

Do you have prayer in your life? Elijah, escaping from trouble, expects to hear God in some great show. But the Lord was not in wind, earthquake or fire – he was in a low whisper.

Where do you go to hear God? We need to listen and be in the right place. Jesus teaches us that by going off up to the mountain, after the miracle of the loaves and fish, to be by himself to pray. Jesus needed that space to pray. Then he was able to respond to the disciples’ fear in the storm: ‘Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.’

We are a fearful people without the Lord.
If we trust in him in our prayer then we can reach out to those who are floundering, but we need the spiritual strength to do this - which leads us back to prayer.

Painting: Christ Walking On The Water by Aleksandr Ivanov

02/08/2026

Fr. Kevin's homily for the 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year A)

Through Isaiah, God invites everyone who thirsts come to the waters.

That’s our baptism. He invites us to come and eat what is good, drink w**e without price, and delight in this rich food. That is Christ’s Body and Blood in Communion.

He invites us to hear that your soul may live, which is the gift of his holy Word. This is Christ’s invitation every time to us – day in, day out.

Do we respond with gratitude, knowing how generous this invitation is? When we respond, we become like those 5000+ whom Christ feeds – they want to hear him, to be fed by him. They are, and they are fully satisfied.

We must not reject this invitation but respond wholeheartedly.

Painting: Jesus feeds 5000 by Louis

26/07/2026

Fr. Kevin's homily for the 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year A)

We need to pray that God will give us, like Solomon, a wise and discerning mind. In that way, we will know how to build the kingdom of God as the parables challenge us.

How do we respond when we come across hidden treasure by chance, or actually find the pearl of great price, the thing we have desired most? Will we have the wisdom to decide if they are worth giving up everything because that is what God wants?

Painting: Finding Hidden Treasure in a Field by Bertram Poole

19/07/2026

Fr. Kevin's homily for the 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year A)

The Spirit helps us in our weakness.
We do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

How much time do you give to prayer each day? I bet you get distracted. That’s why it is so comforting to know that if we set ourselves to pray, the Spirit is with us, praying in us.

Don’t give up! Don’t think you’re no good at praying! God wants you there in prayer with all our failings and distractions because, in the end, God’s Spirit calls us back to what we are doing. God’s invitation is for us to be with him in prayer. Will your respond generously with your time?

Painting: Prayer V by Angu Walters

05/07/2026

Fr. Kevin's homily for the 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year A)

'I will give you rest,' says Jesus. What is rest – doing nothing, silence, recuperating? Then you go back to what was before. Rest for Jesus is something more positive.

Yes, we lay down our burdens at his feet because we can’t carry them on our own. But then he says we must learn from to be gentle and lowly in heart.

I will give you rest is not just about the rest we get from Jesus. He teaches us how to be restful people by imitating his attitude and being gentle and lowly of heart.

Today, the world tries so many ways to stop people being anxious. We have the answer in the rest of which Jesus speaks.

It’s here by us being with him as his people together in the eucharist.

It’s there in the moments of prayer, scripture and meditation that we need each day.

We can’t survive without making time for God each day. It’s as important as making time for other people, for eating, for sleeping.

So, how will you respond to Jesus’ invitation to come to him this week? How will you give him the time he deserves and that you need? Only then will you be able to say to someone this week, 'I will give you rest.'

Painting - I Will Give You Rest IV by Ben Crowder

28/06/2026

Fr. Kevin's homily for Peter and Paul

The prayers of today’s Mass set out how much we owe to those who, as Christ’s apostles, live their lives so that, 2000 years later, we can live our faith.

May we live what those prayers say to us:
- to follow the teaching of those through whom we received the beginnings of right religion,
- to make us devoted to you, though their intercession, in celebration of the sacrifice,
- to live in the Church, that, persevering in the breaking of the Bread and in the teaching of the Apostles, we may be one heart and one soul, made steadfast in your love.

Address

33 Westbourne Road
Luton
LU48JD

Telephone

+441582722127

Website

http://www.holyghostparish.co.uk/

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