by Fr. Francis | Oct 26, 2019 | Sunday Homilies
Grandmother used to point to a man in church whom she’d known since they were both children. “He was such a pious boy,” the grandmother always said approvingly. “He’d be in that same third pew each morning earlier than any of us, and he’d stay later. He knelt so long,...
by Fr. Simham | Oct 26, 2019 | Sunday Homilies
EMPTY VESSELS MAKE MUCH NOISEI remember a simple fable which I heard long back. It was about a young man who was fed up with the life of this world and so he wanted to renounce this world and become a Sanyasi or a monk. He retired to the forest and saw an old Rishi or...
by Fr. Francis | Oct 18, 2019 | Sunday Homilies
PrayerAs a seventh-grade math teacher, Angela Duckworth discovered that IQ wasn’t the only thing that separated her highest performers from her lowest performers. Some of her best students didn’t have high IQ scores, and some of her smartest students weren’t among her...
by Fr. Simham | Oct 18, 2019 | Sunday Homilies
ARE YOU CHANGING THE PLAN OF GOD BY PERSISTENT PRAYER OR REALISING ITOne of the things that most of us hate is “nagging” or “pestering”. We feel so irritated and angry and embarrassed when we are pestered. We want to get rid of such people and so we are prepared to do...
by Fr. Francis | Oct 18, 2019 | Sunday Homilies
“What kind of Thanksgiving dinner is this? Where’s the turkey, Chuck? Don’t you know anything about Thanksgiving dinners? Where’s the mashed potatoes? Where’s the cranberry sauce? Where’s the pumpkin pie?” With those harsh words, Peppermint Patty berated poor Charlie...
