HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 04 06 – Year II The Prism of the Program (Acts 13:44-52; Ps 98; Jn 14:7-14) ************************************************* We can’t see light – we see by light. It takes a prism or a rainbow to refract light into the different colors that make up light, allowing us some glimpse into the beauty […]
Faith-Heaven-Blessed Catherine of St. Augustine
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 04 05 – Year II Homecoming – A Place For Us All: Optional Memorial of Blessed Catherine of St. Augustine (Acts 13:26-33; Ps 2; Jn 14:1-6) ******************************************************* A Place For Us is a song in the opera West Side Story that resonates with the gospel today in which we are assured […]
Faith-Witness-Service
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 04 04 – Year II Faith Expressed in Loving Service (Acts 13:13-25; Ps 89; Jn 13:16-20) *************************************************** “The one who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me. I tell you this now before it occurs, so that when it does occur you may believe that I am he.” The […]
Faith-Evangelization-Francois de Laval
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 04 03 – Year II Be Proclaimers and Evangelizers: Memorial of St. Francois de Laval (2 Tim 4.1-5; Ps 96; Jn 10.11-16) ****************************************** “Evangelizare pauperibus misit me – Pauperes evangelizantur.” This phrase (“He has sent me to evangelize the poor – the poor are evangelized”) is the motto of the Oblates […]
Faith-Evangelization-Paul & Barnabas
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 04 02 – Year II Called to Kerygma and Didache (Acts 11:19-26; Ps 87; Jn 10:22-30) ******************************************************** Do the words Kergyma and Didache resonate with you? These two words capture the dynamic of the activity of the early church and invite us to do the same today: proclaim, and teach about, […]
Easter-Good Shepherd-Blessed Marie-Élodie Paradis
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 04 01 – Year II Jesus as Good Shepherd and Gate to Eternal Life: Optional Memorial of Blessed Marie-Élodie Paradis (Acts 11:1-18; Ps 42 & 43;Jn 10:1-10) *************************************************** Today’s readings invite us to place our faith in Jesus as the Good Shepherd and experience him as the Gate of salvation. The […]
Faith-Jesus as Gate and Shepherd
HOMILY SUNDAY EASTER 04 – A Jesus – Shepherd and Gate: Day of Prayer for Vocations (Acts 2:14a, 36b-41; Psalm 23; 1 Peter 2:20-25; Jn 10:1-10) ********************************************************** Do you have a picture of Jesus hanging on the wall in your home? If so, what image is it? Many have the Sacred Heart of Jesus and […]
Faith-Surrender-St Athanasius
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 06 – Year II Getting in God’s Wheelbarrow: Memorial of St. Athanasius (Acts 9:31-43; Ps 116; Jn 6:53, 60-69) *********************************************** A man asked his friends if they believed he could push a wheelbarrow on a high wire over Niagara Falls. When they replied they did not, he told them to […]
Faith-Transformation-St Joseph the Worker
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 05 – Year II Saul’s Transformative Vision Quest: Optional Memorial – St Joseph the Worker (Acts 9:1-20; Ps 117; Jn 6:52-59) ******************************************** From 1983 to 1988, the Oblate Lebret Task Force organized a series of four-day fasts at late elder Mike Steinhauer’s home in Saddle Lake (onihcikiskwapiwin). We went without […]
Faith-Jesus Christ-Missionary Disciples-St Marie of the Incarnation
HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 04 – Year II On Being Missionary Disciples: Memorial of St. Marie of the Incarnation (Acts 8:26-40; Ps 66; Jn 6:44-51) ********************************************* Do you see yourself as a missionary disciple? That is what Pope Francis challenges us to be constantly. In today’s first reading, Philip can serve as a model […]
