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 colours that make up light, allowing us some glimpse into the beauty […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 04 05 – Year II Homecoming – A Place for Us All: Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Good Counsel (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 […]

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.” […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 04 03 – Year II Following Jesus More Closely: Optional Memorial of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen (Acts 12:24-13:5; Ps 67; Jn 12:44-50) ********************************************* The song Day By Day from Godspell offers this prayer: “To see thee more clearly, Love thee more dearly, Follow thee more nearly, Day by day.”  The Gospel […]

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, […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 04 01 – Year II Jesus as Good Shepherd and Gate to Eternal Life (Acts 11:1-18; Ps 42; 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 New Interpreter’s Bible claims that the images […]

SUNDAY 04 EASTER B Shepherds of the Heart (Acts 4:7-12; Psalm 118; 1 John 3:1-2; John 10:11-18) ****************************************************** The late spiritual writer, Henri Nouwen, used to think love involved being good, being efficient, using one’s intelligence and time well, and doing things for others. Then he chose to live with the mentally challenged in Daybreak, […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 06 – Year II Getting in God’s Wheelbarrow (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 watch, and he did […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 05 – Year II Saul’s Transformative Vision Quest (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 food or water for about 72 hours. […]

HOMILY EASTER SEASON WEEK 03 04 – Year II On Being Missionary Disciples: Optional Memorial of Blessed Marie-Anne Blondin (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 for […]