Category: Homilies

Faith and Love

HOMILY ADVENT WEEK 01 01- Year II Faith and Love (Is 2:1-5; Ps 122; Mt 8:5-11, 13) ********************************************** “Many will come from the east and the west and will recline … at the banquet in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 8:11). Today’s readings for this first weekday of Advent invite us to place our complete […]

Holiness and Justice

HOMILY ADVENT SUNDAY 01 – C Stand Secure; Be Holy; Work for Justice and Pray Always (Jeremiah 33:14-16; Psalm 25; 1 Thes 3:12-4:2; Luke 21:25-28, 34-36) ************************************************************* Happy New Year! Today, the first Sunday of Advent is the first Sunday of the liturgical year C. So again, Happy New Year. Strangely, as we begin a […]

HOMILY WEEK 34 06 – Year II Feast of St Andrew: Kerygma and Didache (Rm 10:9-18; Ps 19; Mt 4:18-22) *************************************************** “If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your hearts that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” This message of Paul to the Romans succinctly […]

HOMILY WEEK 34 05 – Year II Experiencing the Newness of the Kingdom of God (Rev 20:1-21:2; Ps 84; Lk 21:29-33) ********************************************** There is a scene in Mel Gibson’s movie Passion of the Christ in which Jesus, bloodied and battered from his torture and carrying the cross, meets his mother Mary and, to the viewer’s […]

HOMILY WEEK 34 04 – Year II Invited to the Wedding Feast of the Lamb (Rev 18:1-23, 19:1-3; Ps 100; Lk 21:20-28) *********************************************** On the last day of our stay in Jerusalem, our group of pilgrims went to the Western Wall. It happened to be a Thursday when Bar-mitzvahs are celebrated. Even before reaching the […]

HOMILY WEEK 34 03 – Year II Worship and Witness (Rev 15:1-4; Ps 98; Lk 21:12-19) ********************************************** During this last week of the liturgical year, the readings continue an apocalyptic theme and present us with two scenes – a heavenly one and an earthly one, and the connection between the two. These two scenes invite […]

Carpe Diem

HOMILY WEEK 34 02 – Year II Ferial – Carpe Diem (Rev 14:14-19; Ps 96; Lk 21:5-11) **************************************************** A message offered us by the movie Dead Poet’s Society is Carpe Diem – to grasp the day, to make the most of our time each day. Our liturgy today in this final week of ordinary time […]

St. Clement

HOMILY WEEK 33 06 – Year II The Transfiguration and Resurrection: Ferial – St. Clement I (Rev 11:4-12; Ps 144; Lk 20:27-40) ********************************************** During a NECHI course on addiction’s awareness, I realized that only one other participant and I, out of a group of twenty-three, actually believed in the resurrection. All the others were into […]

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