HOMILY SUNDAY 7-C (1 Sm 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-25; Psalm 103; 1 Cor 15:45-50; Lk 6:27-38) **************************************************************** A magnetic cartoon on a friend’s refrigerator caught my attention one day. It pictured a man holding a banner that read: “Who Would Jesus bomb?” It is time that we let the Law of Love reign supreme in […]

HOMILY – FEAST OF THE CHAIR OF ST PETER (1 Pt 5:1-4; Ps 23; Mt 16:13-19) ****************************************** This feast invites us to emulate Peter’s faith, fidelity and ministry. According to the Living With Christ commentary on this feast, early Roman Christians celebrated a feast in honour of their departed loved ones on this day, including […]

HOMILY WEEK 06 05 – Year I Optional Memorial of St. Peter Damian, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (Gen 11:1-9; Ps 33; Mk 8:34-38) ****************************************************** “Happy the people the Lord has chosen to be his own” and “Take up your cross and follow me.” These two quotes pretty well sum up the readings today. […]

HOMILY WEEK 06 04 – Year I (Gen 9:1-13; Ps 102; Mk 8:27-33) *********************************** When in the Holy Land in 2013 for a sabbatical, our group of priests found our way to northeastern Galilee, to Caesarea Philippi. There, we experienced the thrill of standing where Jesus once stood, and reflected on his message to his […]

WEEK 06 03 – Year I (Gen 8:6-22; Ps 116; Mk 8:22-26) ******************************************* Have you ever participated in a trust walk? The readings today invite us to place our complete trust in Jesus, experience his unconditional love, and become a new creation. Youth ministers sometimes blindfold participants and have them follow the directions of a […]

HOMILY WEEK 06 02 – Year I (Gen 6:5-10; Ps 29; Mk 8:14-21) **************************************************** Have you ever experienced a paradigm shift? A paradigm shift is a movement away from one way of seeing reality, thinking or acting, to an entirely new way of seeing reality, thinking or acting. For those afraid of change, this reality […]

WEEK 06 01 – Year I Optional Memorial of the Seven Founders of the Servite Order (Gen 4:1-25; Ps 50; Mk 8:11-13) ***************************************************** “Sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.” (Genesis 4:7) The readings today invite us to turn to God for the spiritual help and […]

HOMILY SUNDAY 06 – C (Jeremiah 17:5-8; Psalm 1; 1 Cor 15:12, 16-20; Luke 6:20-26) *********************************************************** There is a saying that life is more about the journey than the destination. To become Beatitude People, we must make the Beatitudes our way of life today. At the beginning of his ministry, immediately after his baptism, Jesus […]

Trust, Surrender and Love (Gn 3:9-24; Ps 90; Mk 8:1-10) ************************************** Why is it possible to not starve in a desert? We can always eat the “sand which is under our feet!” Today’s readings invite us to trust in God’s love, to surrender to God’s will, and to love as God has loved us. In […]

HOMILY WEEK 05 05 – Year I Memorial of Saints Cyril, Monk and Methodius, Bishop (Gen 3:1-8; Ps 32; Mk 7:31-37) **************************************** The underlying message to the title of this homilyis this: we are invited to undo the original sin of our first parents by placing our faith in Jesus as Messiah and Savior, come […]