The Brendan Option Ep072
Enjoy Holy Week, Judas! “All of theatre is in this, all of drama that has ever been enacted is in this… the Greeks would have no problem with any of it; betrayal, deceit, tragedy… and there you see what the whole world does to innocence.” Join Fr. Brendan Kilcoyne for episode 072 of ‘The Brendan […]
HOLY WEEK | Palm Sunday
THE RED WEDDING “Palm Sunday is deceptive. It doesn’t have the austere of Good Friday with the stripped altars. Palm Sunday is a party! …But Good Friday is still coming, and you can smell it.” Join Fr. Brendan Kilcoyne for this year’s PALM SUNDAY homily where he discusses Holy Week’s opening scene of Jesus Christ’s […]
The Brendan Option Ep071
‘The Rejected’: The Urgency for Irish Catholic Film “I would love to see us doing an Irish version of ‘The Chosen’. Perhaps not as ambitious, but I’d love to take a shot at it and see if we could do it… not ‘better’ but in a way that would be more ‘us’.” Join Fr. Brendan […]
5th Sunday of Lent
Adultery: Anyone’s but Mine “Once guilt has done its job, you don’t hang on to it.” Join Fr Brendan Kilcoyne for his Sunday homily where he discusses this week’s gospel of ‘The Woman Caught in Adultery’ and God’s forgiveness. Mass Readings for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year C. First Reading: Isaiah 43:16-21: The Lord […]
The Brendan Option Ep070
Sex & Eternity: A Catholic Take on “Reproductive Health” – The Irish Synod “We have the answer to ‘reproductive health’; it’s called marriage. There’s reproductive health. Or stay chaste.” Join Fr. Brendan Kilcoyne for episode 070 of ‘The Brendan Option’ where he anticipates the upcoming Irish synod and the topic of ‘reproductive health’. “You cannot […]
4th Sunday of Lent
The Prodigal Son: Pig in a Blanket “With his robes flapping, the father runs out to meet this waster who has come crawling back with his tail between his legs having messed up in a monumental way… and the father runs out to meet him!” Join Fr Brendan Kilcoyne for his Sunday homily where he […]
The Brendan Option Ep069
Priesthood & Liturgy: “I’m MAD as Hell!” “I’m mad at the way that the Church has gone into into decline… that we cannot seem to sell the incredible product we have.” Join Fr. Brendan Kilcoyne for episode 69 of ‘The Brendan Option’ where he asks the upcoming Irish synod to tackle the problems with which […]
3rd Sunday of LENT
Flames & Fruit: No Good Work Without God “We want the bush to burn; We want something to happen; We want direct contact with God!” Join Fr Brendan Kilcoyne for his Sunday homily where he encourages us to persevere in penance as we journey through the middle of the Lenten season. Daily Mass Readings for […]
The Brendan Option Ep068
Abolish St Patrick’s Day! “I want this vulgar, drink-sodden, bullsh!t that is commonly called St. Patrick’s Day to stop so that the celebration of a major Catholic figure in the Irish Catholic experience is not ruined.” Join Fr. Brendan Kilcoyne for episode 068 of ‘The Brendan Option’ where he suggests “modern” secular Ireland think up […]
2nd Sunday of LENT
LENT & COVENANT: Live-in the Dream Join Fr Brendan Kilcoyne for his Sunday homily where he discusses the link between Lent and covenant with God. “You can’t separate Lent from covenant… you can’t separate Lent from God’s promise. If you separate penance from this promise, penance becomes grotesque, it becomes self-harm, it becomes completely decontextualized… […]