HOMILY WEEK 01 06 – Year II The Call of Levi – Gratuitous Grace (1 Sm 9:1-10; Ps 21; Mk 2:13-17) ************************************************************ The Word Among Us offers this reflection for today’s liturgy: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” Today begins the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, and today’s Gospel is a […]
Category: Homilies
Faith-Healing-Prayer-St. Anthony, Abbot
HOMILY WEEK 01 05 – Year II New Life through Faith, Forgiveness and Healing Memorial: St. Anthony, Abbot (1 Sm 8:4-22; Ps 89; Mk 2:1-12) ******************************************************* There is a saying, “People get the government they deserve.” That saying applies to the readings and memorial liturgy today. We are invited to place our faith in Jesus, […]
Faith-Healing of a leper-Suffering
HOMILY WEEK 01 04 – Year II Humble Faith and Trust (1 Sam 4:1-11; Ps 44; Mk 1:40-45) ************************************* Have you ever wondered, “Where is God?” when something bad happened to you? The readings today provide us with a simple, clear and important message: Be humble and trust in God at all times and in […]
Faith-Call and Response-God’s will
HOMILY WEEK 01 03 – YEAR II Living in Balance (1 Sam 3: Ps 40; Mk 1:29-39) ************************************** “I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.” This sentence from Psalm 40 of today’s readings captures the message of the liturgy for us today – to balance prayer and […]
Faith-Awareness-Healing
HOMILY WEEK 01 02 – Year II Spiraling Out of Control and into Healing (1 Sam 1:9-20; 1 Sam 2; Mk 1:21-28) **************************************** How would you take the air out of a glass? Would you use a vacuum pump? Or simply fill the glass with water, and the air would be pushed out. In a […]
Faith-Arian heresy-St. Hilary
HOMILY WEEK 01 01 – Year II Call and Response: Optional Memorial of St. Hilary (1 Sam 1:1-8; Ps 116; Mk 1:14-20) ************************************** According to Bishop Robert Barron, today’s Gospel reports Jesus’ first sermon. After his Baptism and temptation, Jesus begins to preach in Galilee. The first words out of his mouth serve as a […]
Faith-Baptism of Jesus
BAPTISM OF THE LORD – A Called to a Heart-felt Faith (Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7; Psalm 28; Acts 10:34-38; Matthew 3:13-17) **************************************************** When Jesus anonymously joined the disciples on the road to Emmaus after his resurrection, he proceeded to explain to them all the prophecies in the scriptures that were about him. The first reading […]
Faith- Children of God-John the Baptist
HOMILY CHRISTMAS SEASON JANUARY 11th Children of God – Wisdom from John and John (1 Jn 5:14-21; Ps 149; Jn 3:22-30) *********************************************** Welcome to the second last day of the Christmas season, which officially ends tomorrow with the celebration of the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan. The readings today cover a broad stretch of […]
Faith-Leprosy-Healing-Self-Esteem
HOMILY CHRISTMAS SEASON – JANUARY 10th Faith, Eternal Life and Healing (1 Jn 5:5-13; Ps 147; Lk 5:12-16) ********************************************* Have you ever met a leper? Faith in Jesus can heal our modern leprosy and lead us to experience eternal life here and now. In the gospel, a man covered with leprosy appears before Jesus “in […]
Faith-Jesus Christ-Love
HOMILY CHRISTMAS SEASON – JANUARY 9th Faith Expressed Through Love (1 Jn 4:19-5:4; Ps 71; Lk 4:14-22) ******************************************* The liturgy today invites us to deepen our faith in Jesus as the Messiah, revealing a God who is love, and then express that faith by living his commandment to love. In the first reading, John gives […]
