HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 06 05 – Year II Joyful Redemptive Suffering: Optional Memorial of St. John of Avila (Acts 18:9-18; Ps 47; Jn 16:20-23) ************************************************** “You will have pain, but your pain will be turned into joy.” Today’s gospel invites us into a radical stance towards suffering and pain – to see it as […]
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New Life
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 06 04 – Year II Singing A New Song (Acts 18:1-8; Ps 98: Jn 16:16-20) ******************************************* Are you singing a new song? The readings today invite us to sing a new song, with a chorus that could be: “Jesus is risen, the Spirit is given, we are forgiven!” In the first […]
Blessed Catherine of St. Augustine
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 06 03 – Year II Faith: Lived Out or Just Worn? Optional Memorial of Blessed Catherine of St. Augustine (Acts 17:15, 22-18:1; Ps 148; Jn 16:12-15) ************************************************ Are we just wearing our faith, or truly living it? The readings today invite us to have a mature, genuine faith in God as […]
Servants of the Word
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEKDAY 06 02 – Year II Servants of the Word (Acts 16:22-34; Ps 138: Jn 16:5-11) ******************************************************* “Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world, and to go to the Father.” This statement provides the background for the message from today’s readings: grounded in the love of Jesus […]
HOMILY 6th SUNDAY OF EASTER – B Loved by God, and Empowered by the Spirit to Live in Love (Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; 1 Jn 4:7-10; Jn 15:9-17) ******************************************************** Recently, a mental health coordinator in another province asked me to conduct a workshop for her community workers on how to stay healthy and sane in […]
Blessed Marie-Léonie Paradis
HOMILY EASTER WEEK 05 06 – Year II Steadfast Faith and Love: Optional Memorial of Blessed Marie-Léonie Paradis (Acts 16:1-10; Psalm 100; Jn 15:18-21) ******************************************************** In the gospel, Jesus warns us that just as he was misunderstood and persecuted, his followers will also be misunderstood and persecuted. We must pray for the faith to stay […]
Feast of Saints Philip and James
HOMILY FEAST of SAINTS PHILIP AND JAMES Through the Apostles to Jesus and the Father (1 Cor 15:1-8; Ps 18; Jn 14:6-14) ******************************************************** “It is just as important to feed people with the Word of God as it is to feed them with the Body and Blood of Jesus.” That quote is from Catherine […]
St. Athanasius
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 05 04 – Year II Abiding in Love:Memorial of St. Athanasius (Acts 15.7-21; Ps 96; Jn 15.9-11) ********************************************** When was the last time you told somebody you loved them? When was the last time someone said they loved you? The answer to that last question is actually today – just now, […]
St. Joseph the Worker
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 05 03 – Year II Abiding in Jesus and Bearing Fruit: Optional Memorial of St. Joseph the Worker (Acts 15:1-6; Ps 122; Jn 15:1-8) *************************************************** In the Domano Retreat centrr in the Diocese of Prince George, there is a vine covering most of a wall that both clings to and reaches […]
St. Marie of the Incarnation
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 05 02 – Year II Elements of Discipleship: Relationship, Persecution and Proclamation – Memorial of St. Marie of the Incarnation (Acts 14:19-28; Ps 145; John 14:27-31a) ******************************************************** The readings today offer us three elements of discipleship as followers of Jesus: relationship, persecution and proclamation. The gospel places us back at the […]
