by Fr. Francis | Dec 25, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
“I proclaim to you good news of great joy; today a Savior is born for us, Christ the Lord” Good morning everyone! Surely, all of you must share in my great joy of being a participant in this beautiful gathering of families, relatives, friends, neighbors...
by Fr. Francis | Dec 25, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
St. Joseph is to celebrate the birth of Child Jesus! We are now in the period of immediate preparation for Christmas and the scripture readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent reflect this with the first reading being an extract from Isaiah which explicitly predicts...
by Fr. Vinner | Dec 20, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
Dear brothers & sisters in Christ Jesus, It was a few days before Christmas. A woman woke up one morning and told her husband, “I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace for Christmas. What do you think this dream means?” “Oh,” her husband replied, “you’ll...
by Fr. Vinner | Dec 10, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, Today the liturgy of the word is inviting us to rejoice at the rebirth of Jesus in our lives as we are preparing for the Christmas celebration. Today is called Gaudete Sunday because today’s Mass begins with the opening...
by Fr. Francis | Dec 10, 2016 | Sunday Homilies
My dear Brothers and Sisters, In the tradition of the liturgical calendar, the third Sunday in advent is often called “Gaudete Sunday”. ‘Gaudete’ means ‘rejoice’ in Latin. It comes from the first word of today’s entrance antiphon from the words of St. Paul, “Rejoice...
