HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 03 – Year II Our Deepest Yearning: Memorial of St. Catherine of Sienna (Acts 8:1-8; Ps 66; Jn 6:35-40) **************************************** Karl Rahner famously stated: “In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable, we finally learn that here in this life all symphonies must remain unfinished.” That raises the question, […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 02 – Year II Living Without Blinders:  Optional Memorial of St Peter Chanel (Acts 7:51-8:1a; Ps 31; Jn 6:30-35) ************************************************** Carol, a friend whom I have known for years, shared something with me recently that I did not know and had not noticed about her – she has been living […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 01 – Year II Living the New Paradigm of Eternal Life (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 to our faith. She […]

HOMILY EASTER SUNDAY 03 – Year A Witnesses to the Risen Lord (Acts 2:14, 22b-28; Psalm 16; 1 Peter 1:17-21; Luke 24:13-35) *************************************************************** The readings on this 3rd Sunday of Eastertime are like bookends – they stretch from the appearance of Jesus to his disciples on the day of his resurrection, to the Pentecost event […]

HOMILY – FEAST OF ST MARK Proclaiming the Good News by Word and Witness (1 Pt 5:5-14; Ps 89; Mk 16:15-20) *********************************************** “Go in peace.” “Go in the peace of Christ.” “Let us go out to love and serve the Lord in one another.” These are all dismissals one might hear from different presiders at […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 02 05 – Year II Teach, Proclaim and Live: Optional Memorial of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen (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. Adalbert (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 into […]

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 EASTER SEASON WEEK 02 01 – Year II On Being Spirit-filled, Healing Witnesses (Acts 4:23-31; Ps 2; Jn 3:1-8) ******************************************** A young lady brought her fiancé to church for mass. He was full of questions which she tried to answer, such as what is a holy water font; why genuflection; what were the statues, […]