Category: Homilies

HOMILY WEEDAY 23 02 – Year II Celebrating Who We Are (1 Cor 6:1-11; Ps 149; Lk 6:12-19) ************************************ The late Anthony de Mello, in The Song of the Bird, recounts this captivating story: A boy found an eagle’s egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the […]

Faith and Love

HOMILY SUNDAY 23 – B Genuine Faith Expressed through Unconditional Love (Isaiah 35:4-7; Psalm 146; James 2:1-5; Mark 7:31-17) ********************************************************** A Sunday school teacher asked her children, “Why is it necessary to be quiet in church?” One bright little girl replied, “Because people are sleeping.” Faith that expresses itself through love is true faith indeed. […]

Faith

HOMILY WEEK 22 06 – Year II Servants of Christ and Stewards of God’s Mysteries (1 Cor 4:6-15; Ps 145; Lk 6:1-5) ************************************************ “Think of us as servants of Christ and stewards of God’s mysteries.”  That line, from St. Paul in his letter to the Corinthians, provides us with a strong message and mandate: we […]

Fresh wineskins

HOMILY WEEK 22 05 – Year II New Wine, New Wineskins (1 Cor 4:1-5; Ps 37; Lk 5:33-39) *********************************************** “The new wine will burst the skins.” In ancient Israel, the juice from pressed grapes immediately went into a container to ferment into wine. If the wine was going to be transported a long distance, the […]

HOMILY SUNDAY 22-B First Fruits of all Creation (Dt 4:1-2, 6-8; Ps 15; James 1:17-18, 21-22, 27; Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23) ************************************************************* Some years back, two American Dominican sisters realized their dream of serving in a mission. There was much excitement as they packed up and prepared to move to a community in northern Saskatchewan […]

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