Homilies
READINGS: Isa 50:4-7; Psa 22:8-9,17-20,23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Lk 22:14-23:56 THEME: THE HOUR HAS COME! Throughout the gospel, but most vividly in the gospel according to St. John, the hour of Jesus is spoken mostly in three stages: the/his hour is coming (cf John 2:4, 7:30; 8:20); the hour has not come (cf John 4:23; 5:25; 16:2,4,25,32); the […]
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READINGS: Deut 26:4-10; Psalm 91:1-2,10-15; Rom 10:8-13; Luke 4:1-13 THEME: FORTY DAYS OF SPIRITUAL EMPOWERMENT FROM THE WATER OF BAPTISM TO THE WILDERNESS OF TRIAL Today’s gospel reading calls us to reflect on the Temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. According to the three synoptic gospels, there is a big jump from the birth and early childhood
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READINGS: Ecclesiasticus 27:5-8; Psalm 92:2-3,13-16; 1 Cor 15:54-58; Luke 6:39-45 THEME: INTEGRITY NOT HYPOCRISY After this Sunday, we take a break from Ordinary Time of the Year and begin Lenten season which the Ash Wednesday this week ushers us in. As we prepare to enter Lenten season, the readings today offer us some guides to being real
8TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OF THE YEAR Read More »
READINGS: Isa 62:1-5; Psalm 96:1-3,7-10; 1 Cor 12:4-11; John 2:1-11 THEME: THE NEW WINE OF CHRIST IS HERE! “THEY DO NOT HAVE WINE” The mother of Jesus, Jesus and his disciples were all together in a wedding feast. They were invited guests. In the course of the celebration, wine finished. Ordinarily, that wine gave out had nothing
2ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C Read More »
Readings: Isaiah 40:1-5,9-11; Titus 2:11-14; 3:4-7; Luke 3:15,16,21-22. Theme: The Life of My Baptism The feast of the Lord’s baptism concludes the Christmastide and opens the door again for the ordinary time of the year. Baptism and Prayer that bursts the heaven open In the gospel reading of today, the evangelist Luke says that when all
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Readings: Zeph 3:14-18; Isa 12; Phil 4:4-7; Luke 3:10-18 Theme: What then Must We Do? Gaudete Sunday is an invitation to rejoice because the Lord whom we await is near. WHAT MUST WE DO? In today’s gospel, different groups came to John the Baptist, and each asked him “what must we do?” The people were looking
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READINGS: Dan 12:1-3; Psa 16:5.8.9-10.2.11; Heb 10:11-14.8; Mark 13:24-32 THEME: Where will You be ‘After’ the Tribulation? There will be an ‘After’ We are gradually approaching the end of the church’s liturgical year and the readings of today, especially the first and the gospel reading, speak of the end of time. The thirteenth chapter of Mark’s gospel
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Readings: Jer 31:7-9; Psa 126; Hebs 5:1-6; Mark 10:46-52 Theme: Cry Persistently to Christ. The Sitting Blindman The gospel reading which centers on the blind Bartimaeus, is the last episode we see in the gospel of Mark before Jesus enters Jerusalem. At this point, Jesus is on a move with Jerusalem, the city of his passion, as
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Readings: Gen 2:18-24; Psalm 127; Heb 2:9-11; Mark 10:2-16 Theme: It is not good that man should be alone The Loneliness of Man The first two chapters of the book of Genesis contain the creation history, creation out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo). In the first creation account (Gen 1) the last thing to be created
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Readings: Num 11:25-29; Psalm 18:8,10,12-14; James 5:1-6; Mk 9:38-43,45,47-48 THEME: NO ONE HAS MONOPPLY OF GOD’S BLESSINGS “…we forbade him because he was not following us” Last Sunday, there was a crisis among the disciples, regarding who is the greatest among them, that is, who is more powerful and more a disciple than others. They all
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