Sunday Homilies
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham)
JOB QUESTIONS AND JESUS ANSWERS The theme for our reflection today based on the first reading and the gospel is “Job questions and Jesus answers.” Don‘t be confused I‘ll explain to you. First of all, let us know, Who is Job? And what does he question? Or what is his...
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham)
He thought with authority One of the popular names of Jesus in the Bible is ‘Rabbi’ which means “teacher”. And one of the main missions of Jesus in his public ministry was to proclaim the kingdom of God or the Good news. He went around doing that. In the gospel today...
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lesson from Jonah Today I want to concentrate purely on the first reading. It is taken from the book of Jonah. Jonah is an interesting character in the Bible. He is one of the twelve minor prophets in the Bible. And in fact he is the only minor prophet who Jesus...
2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham)
What do you want? Where do you live? John 1:35-42 What we read today as our gospel is a wonderful story. If we look at it at the peripheral level it is a wonderful drama. There is John baptizing at river Jordan. A great crowd of people are in queue and there are two...
Baptism of the Lord (Fr. Simham)
Today we celebrate the solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord. We remember how Jesus came to the waters of Jordan to be baptized by John. On this solemnity of baptism of the Lord, the question people often ask is, ‘why was Jesus baptized?’ Why did he need a baptism? He...
Epiphany of the Lord (Fr. Simham)
On this feast of Epiphany the wise men or the magi have so much to teach the modern world and us Christians. First, Wise men in the gospel seek the Messiah, the king. They were from the far-east, may be it has taken two years to travel and it costed lots of money and...
Mary, The Holy Mother of God (Fr. Francis)
Today we celebrate the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. Of all the feast days of Mary, this one seems to touch our heart the most. It is not often thought of, however, until it comes up on the Liturgical Calendar. Even as we acclaim her “Mother of God” in the Hail...
Mary, The Holy Mother of God (Fr. Simham)
Introduction: Since we celebrate the Feast of Mary, the Mother of God, on New Year’s Day, may we take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy and Peaceful New Year? I pray that the Lord Jesus and His Mother Mary may enrich your lives during the New Year with an...
The Holy Family (Fr. Simham)
The Holy family is a model to modern families If at all if there is one feast which is very, very relevant to our present day society, it is the feast of the Holy family. At a time when all essential institutions started crumbling through the onslaught materialism and...
The Holy Family (Fr. Francis)
I read something like this that in the 1950s in America, there was a television program called, Father Knows Best. Well, that is precisely what we are supposed to believe as Catholics: that our Heavenly Father knows what is best for us; thus, we must conform our lives...