HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 05 05 – Year II Love Like Jesus and Live in the Spirit (Acts 15:22-31; Ps 57; Jn 15:12-17) ************************************************* “Love one another as I have loved you” and “For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us…” These two key sentences from the readings today for Friday […]

HOMILY – FEAST OF ST MATTHIAS, APOSTLE Chosen to Love – Choosing to Love (Acts 1:15-17, 20-26; Ps 113; Jn 15:6-17) *********************************************** Two words leap out at us in today’s readings: “chosen” and “love.” Putting them together, we get the message from this feast day of St. Matthias that we are Chosen by Jesus to […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 05 03 – Year II Abiding in Jesus and Bearing Fruit: Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima (Acts 15:1-6; Ps 122; Jn 15:1-8) *************************************************** In the Domano Retreat center in the Diocese of Prince George, there is a vine covering most of a wall that both clings to and reaches […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 05 02 – Year II Elements of Discipleship: Relationship, Persecution and Proclamation – Optional Memorial of Saints Nereus and Achilleus (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 […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 05 01 – Year II Experiencing God Through Intimacy (Acts 14.5-18; Ps 115; Jn 14.21-26) *********************************************** When someone is on their deathbed, and sharing their last thoughts and words with us – we pay attention. The gospel today asks us to pay attention to the words of Jesus before the Passover, […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON SUNDAY 05 Serving the Needy and the Word (Acts 6:1-7; 1 Pt 2:4-9; Jn 14:1-12) ************************************************ Brother Walter Demong is a humble eighty-eight-year old Oblate brother living at Trinity Manor in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. After a dedicated career managing a herd of prize-winning dairy cows at the former St. Charles Scholasticate near Battleford, […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 04 05 – Year II Homecoming – A Place For Us All: Optional Memorial of Blessed Catherine of St. Augustine (Acts 13:26-33; Ps 2; Jn 14:1-6) ******************************************************* A Place For Us is a song in the opera West Side Story that resonates with the gospel today in which we are assured […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 04 04 – Year II Faith Expressed in Loving Service (Acts 13:13-25; Ps 89; Jn 13:16-20) *************************************************** “The one who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me. I tell you this now before it occurs, so that when it does occur you may believe that I am he.” The […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 04 03 – Year II Be Proclaimers and Evangelizers: Memorial of St.  Francois de Laval (2 Tim 4.1-5; Ps 96; Jn 10.11-16) ****************************************** “Evangelizare pauperibus misit me – Pauperes evangelizantur.” This phrase (“He has sent me to evangelize the poor – the poor are evangelized”) is the motto of the Oblates […]

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, […]