HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 04 03 – Year II Following Jesus More Closely: Optional Memorial of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen (Acts 12:24-13:5; Ps 67; Jn 12:44-50) ********************************************* The song Day By Day from Godspell offers this prayer: “To see thee more clearly, Love thee more dearly, Follow thee more nearly, Day by day.” The Gospel […]
Didache and Kerygma
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 04 02 – Year II Called to Kerygma and Didache (Acts 11:19-26; Ps 87; Jn 10:22-30) ******************************************************** Do the words Kergyma and Didache resonate with you? These two words capture the dynamic of the activity of the early church and invite us to do the same today: proclaim, and teach about, […]
Gate for the Sheep
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 04 01 – Year II Jesus as Good Shepherd and Gate to Eternal Life (Acts 11:1-18; Ps 42; Jn 10:1-10) *************************************************** Today’s readings invite us to place our faith in Jesus as the Good Shepherd and experience him as the Gate of salvation. The New Interpreter’s Bible claims that the images […]
Good Shepherd
SUNDAY 04 EASTER B Shepherds of the Heart (Acts 4:7-12; Psalm 118; 1 John 3:1-2; John 10:11-18) ****************************************************** The late spiritual writer, Henri Nouwen, used to think love involved being good, being efficient, using one’s intelligence and time well, and doing things for others. Then he chose to live with the mentally challenged in Daybreak, […]
Faith
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 06 – Year II Getting in God’s Wheelbarrow (Acts 9:31-43; Ps 116; Jn 6:53, 60-69) *********************************************** A man asked his friends if they believed he could push a wheelbarrow on a high wire over Niagara Falls. When they replied they did not, he told them to watch, and he did […]
Saul’s Transformation
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 05 – Year II Saul’s Transformative Vision Quest (Acts 9:1-20; Ps 117; Jn 6:52-59) ******************************************** From 1983 to 1988, the Oblate Lebret Task Force organized a series of four-day fasts at late elder Mike Steinhauer’s home in Saddle Lake (onihcikiskwapiwin). We went without food or water for about 72 hours. […]
Blessed Marie-Anne Blondin
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 04 – Year II On Being Missionary Disciples: Optional Memorial of Blessed Marie-Anne Blondin (Acts 8:26-40; Ps 66; Jn 6:44-51) ********************************************* Do you see yourself as a missionary disciple? That is what Pope Francis challenges us to be constantly. In today’s first reading, Philip can serve as a model for […]
St. Kateri Tekakwitha
HOMILHY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 03 – Year II Our Deepest Yearning: Memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha (Acts 8:1-8; Ps 66; Jn 6:35-40) **************************************** Karl Rahner famously stated: “In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable, we finally learn that here in this life all symphonies must remain unfinished.” That raises the question, “What […]
St. Stephen
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 02 – Year II Living Without Blinders (Acts 7:51-8:1a; Ps 31; Jn 6:30-35) ************************************************** Carol, a friend whom I have known for years, shared something with me recently that I did not know and had not noticed about her – she has been living without sight in her left eye […]
Paradigm shift
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 01 – Year II Living the New Paradigm of Eternal Life (Acts 6:8-15; Ps 119; Jn 6:22-29) ********************************************* Sister of Charity Elaine Biolo once offered a course on faith and culture at Newman Theological College in which she explained how the sociological term “new paradigm” applies to our faith. She […]
