HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 01 – Year II Living the New Paradigm of Eternal Life: Memorial of St. Athanasius (Acts 6:8-15; Ps 119; Jn 6:22-29) ********************************************* Sister of Charity Elaine Biolo once offered a course on faith and culture at Newman Theological College in which she explained how the sociological term “new paradigm” applies […]

HOMILY SUNDAY EASTER 3 – C 2022 Witnessing to the Resurrection (Acts 5:27-30, 40-41; Psalm 30; Rev 5:11-14; Jn 21:1-19) ********************************************************** How often do you tell others that you love them? Let God’s forgiving love transform you into a disciple whose holiness and loving service bears witness to the resurrection. Imagine you had good idea […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 02 06 Balancing Grace and Glory, Prayer and Ministry: Memorial of St. Marie of the Incarnation (Acts 6:1-6; Ps 33; Jn 6:16-21 ************************************************* The New Interpreters Bible commentary on the gospel offers us the idea of balancing grace and glory in our lives, as Jesus did. The first reading adds the […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 02 05 – Year II Teach, Proclaim and Live – Memorial of St. Catherine of Sienna (Acts 5:34-42; Ps 27; Jn 6:1-15) ***************************************************** Do you see yourself as a teacher and proclaimer of faith? The readings today invite us to imitate the early apostles in teaching about, and proclaiming, Jesus as […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 02 04 – Year II Transformative Faith Transforming Life: Optional Memorial of St. Peter Chanel (Acts 5:27-33; Ps 34; Jn 3:31-36) ***************************************************** We are invited by today’s readings for Thursday of the second week of Easter to allow our faith in the Risen Lord, fill us with love and transform us […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 02 03 – Year II Jesus Christ: Love, Light and Life (Acts 5:17-26; Ps 34; Jn 3:16-21) ************************************************** “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.” Today’s liturgy for Wednesday of the second […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 02 02 Returning To Our Roots (Acts 4:32-37; Ps 93; Jn 3:7-15) ***************************************** Faith and Fellowship are two words expressing the essence of today’s liturgy. On this Tuesday of the second week of the Easter season, we are invited to deepen our faith in Jesus as crucified Messiah and Risen Lord, […]

HOMILY – FEAST OF ST MARK Proclaiming the Good News by Word and Witness (1 Pt 5:5-14; Ps 89; Mk 16:15-20) *********************************************** This feast of St. Mark and the readings today might suggest this dismissal at the end of the Eucharist: “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.” […]

EASTER SUNDAY 02 – C My Lord and my God (Acts 5:12-16; Psalm 118; Rev 1:9-13, 17-19; John 20:19-31) *************************************************** “This is written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have eternal life in his name.” On this celebration of […]

HOMILY SATURDAY of EASTER WEEK On Being Missionary Disciples (Acts 4:13-21; Ps 118; Mk 16:9-15) ********************************************** Two themes continue to dominate the readings after Easter: faith in the Risen Lord, and the commission to go and proclaim the Good News. These two themes synchronize precisely with two dominant themes of the papacy of Pope Francis: […]