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 […]

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 […]

HOMILY WEEK 34 01 – Year II Giving All to Christ: Ferial – St. Catherine of Alexandria (Rev 14:1-5; Ps 24; Lk 21:1-4) ************************************** The message of the gospel today is to put our complete faith in Christ; to surrender to him totally. It is interesting that in one translation, Jesus looked up and saw […]

HOMILY CHRIST THE KING SUNDAY – B Christ the Servant King (Daniel 7:13-14; Psalm 93; Rev 1:5-8; John 18:33-37) **********************************************************  A wife heard her husband come back into the house not too long after he had left. She said, “Hon, I thought you were going to your lodge meeting.” “It was postponed,” He replied, “The […]

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 […]

HOMILY WEEK 33 05 – Year II The Word of God and Fraternal Correction: Memorial of St. Cecilia (Rev 10:8-11; Ps 119; Lk 19:45-48) ******************************************** “My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it into a den of robbers.” That statement by Jesus in the gospel today invites us to pray […]

HOMILY WEEK 33 – 04 Victorious in Christ: Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Rev 5:1-10; Ps 149; Lk 19:41-44) ****************************************** Recall your experience of winning an event of any kind and the feelings involved of being on the winning side, and the way those feelings return when we remember the event, […]