SOLEMNITY OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS – Year I Revealing Our God Who is Love, Mercy and Compassion (Dt 7:6-11; Ps 103; 1Jn 4:7-16; Mt 11:25-30) ****************************************************** What word resonates in your heart more deeply – loyalty or love? Today’s solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus invites us into a paradigm shift from […]

HOMILY WEEK 10 04 – Year I Living A Transformative Faith (2 Cor 3:15-4:6; Ps 85; Mt 5:20-26) ****************************************** What do you make of Paul’s focus on “glory” in the first reading today? The message he is earnestly trying to communicate to the Corinthians, and to us, is to allow our faith in Jesus to […]

HOMILY WEEK 10 03 – Year I Ministers of a New Covenant (2 Cor 3:4-11; Ps 99; Matt 5:17-19) ************************************** Would you like to be given new, very important role in your life? You already have one – just believe it and be ministers of a new covenant. Those who are married will perhaps understand […]

HOMILY WEEK 10 02 – Year I On Being Salt and Light Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua (2 Cor 1:18-22; Ps 119; Mt 5:13-16) ************************************** There’s nothing particularly interesting or special about a container of salt or a package of lightbulbs in your pantry. But think how indispensable they are. Today’s liturgy invites us […]

HOMILY WEEK 10 01 – Year I The Beatitudes – Our Way of Being (2 Cor 1:1-7; Ps 34; Mt 5:1-12) *************************************** Do you know your “Way of Being”? The liturgy today invites us to live the Beatitudes always, in both pleasant and painful times. A core teaching of the Returning To Spirit Process is […]

HOMILY CORPUS CHRISTI SUNDAY Celebrating God’s Love (Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14-16; Psalm 147; 1 Cor 10:16-17; Jn 6:51-59) ***************************************************************** What is the world’s oldest religion? There are some who suggest it is cannibalism and human sacrifice. That spirituality is based on the primal need to have power and control over spiritual forces and the forces of […]

HOMILY WEEK 09 06 – Year I Almsgivers in the Spirit (Tob 12:1-20; Tob 13:2-6; Mk 12:38-44) ****************************************** “Prayer with fasting is good, but better than both is almsgiving with righteousness.” That sentence from the Book of Tobit literally leaps out at the reader, demanding our attention. It also provides an important message for us […]

HOMILY WEEK 09 05 – Year I Trusting In God at All Times: Optional Memorial of St. Ephrem (Tobit 11:5-15; Ps 146; Mk 12:35-37) *************************************** “That day there was joy for all the Jews who lived in Nineveh” Tobit faced trial after trial. By the end of this story, however, his circumstances had flipped. Not […]

HOMILY WEEK 09 04 – Year I Living the Great Commandment (Tobit 4; Psalm 128; Mark 12:28-34) ************************************************* How does one enter the reign of God? The answer is simple – keep the Great Commandment that Jesus gave us to love God, others and ourselves. Dr. Glasser, originator of Reality Therapy, taught that our lives […]

HOMILY WEEK 09 02 – Year I Giving Ourselves Back to God: Optional Memorial of St. Norbert (Tob 2:9-14, 3:1; Ps 112; Mk 12:13-17) *************************************** Christine Archibald, the Canadian victim of a terrorist attack in London, had a heart for the poor and worked at a homeless shelter. The hashtag #ChrissySentMe inspired people around the […]