HOMILY SUNDAY 24-C A Study of Contrasts (Exodus 32:7-11, 13-14; Psalm 51; 1 Timothy 1:12-17; Luke 15:1-32) ************************************************************** “The tax collectors and sinners were all seeking the company of Jesus to hear what he had to say.” This striking phrase describing the actions of the tax collectors and sinners opens a Gospel account that takes […]
Category: Homilies
Will of God
HOMILY WEEK 23 06 – Year II Founded on Doing God’s Will: Our Lady’s Saturday (1 Cor 10:14-22; Ps 116; Lk 6:43-49) *********************************************** How strong is the foundation of your life? Today’s readings invite us to make the Word of God and doing God’s will the foundation of our life of faith. In the gospel, […]
Self-awareness-St. Peter Claver
HOMILY WEEK 23 05 – Year II Journeying into Greater Self-Awareness: Optional Memorial of St. Peter Claver (1 Cor 9:16-27; Ps 83; Lk 6:39-42) *************************************** “You are who you are – what are you afraid of?” Franciscan Father Richard Rohr started a retreat for our Oblate community years ago with the startling statement, which along […]
Nativity of Mary
FEAST of the NATIVITY OF MARY – WEEK 23 04 – Year II Trust and Transformation (Rm 8:28-30/Micah 5:2-5; Ps 13; Mt 1:1-23) ********************************************* Have you had to make a difficult decision lately and felt very alone? Have you ever wondered where was God in a particular painful situation? The readings on this feast of […]
Beatitudes
HOMILY WEEK 23 03 – Year II Living the Beatitudes (1 Cor 7:1-31; Ps 45; Lk 6:20-26) ********************************************* The Beatitudes are the Magna Carta of Jesus’ teaching. Part of the Sermon on the Mount in both Matthew and Luke, they present Christ as the new Moses, building on the Ten Commandments of the first Moses […]
Celebrating our Identity
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 […]
Labor Day
HOMILY for LABOR DAY 2022 (Gen 1:26-2:3; Ps 90; Mt 25:14-30) ************************************** The first reading from Genesis provided for this Labor Day fittingly portrays God at work at creating the universe. “Let us make man in our image” could indicate the Holy Trinity, but more likely this “Majestic plural,” the language that monarchs use, denotes […]
Faith-Healing-Attitudes
HOMILY WEEK 23 01 – Year II Attitudinal Healing (1 Cor 5:1-8; Ps 5; Lk 6:6-11) ******************************* Has the cryptic statement, “Check that attitude” ever applied to you? The liturgy today invites us to be aware of and open to a transformation of attitudes, so we can help others heal in a similar way. The […]
HOMILY SUNDAY 23 – C The Cost of Discipleship (Wisdom 9:13-18; Psalm 90; Philemon 9b-10, 12-17; Luke 14:25-33) ************************************************************** Are you a tourist, or disciple? Travelling with the crowd, or following Jesus? Take up your cross, let go of some detrimental attachments, and follow Jesus as a disciple. Today’s gospel dynamics are very interesting. A […]
Service-St. Gregory the Great
HOMILY WEEK 22 06 – Year II Servants of Christ and Stewards of God’s Mysteries: Memorial of St. Gregory the Great (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 […]
