Sunday Homilies

Merry Christmas! Our Advent preparations have been completed, and we are now invited by our Lord to enter the glorious celebration of His birth! How well do you understand the awe-inspiring mystery of Christmas? How fully do you comprehend the significance of God...

You may have heard the story of the little boy who was finding it hard to sleep at night. He called out from his room for his dad. When his father got there, the little guy said, “The longer I’m here, the darker and scarier it gets. Couldn’t you stay in here until I...

My Sisters and Brothers in Christ, It is God who builds the house!  It is God who sends the Savior!  It is God who comes to Mary and through Mary gives us the Savior.   All comes from God and all returns to God, but the present is the important time because it is now...

MARY FOR ADVENT Dear friends, this Fourth Sunday of Advent belongs to Mary. This is so because Christmas, which celebrates the birth of Jesus, necessarily involves the motherhood of Mary. However, the story of that birth is reserved for Midnight Mass, while today’s...

Our Scripture passage for this Third Sunday of Advent comes from the Gospel of John 1:6–8 and 19–28. This reading introduces John the Baptist and his ministry as a witness of faith. John is an effective witness because he possesses three essential qualities of an...

Rejoice in the Lord The third Sunday of Advent is called ‘Gaudate Sunday’ . The word ‘Gaudate’ in Latin means "Rejoice". Opening ante-phone says "Rejoice in the Lord always…….." And in the first reading today prophet Isaiah says 61:10"I will greatly rejoice in the...

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, on this day the whole Church celebrates together the great occasion of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrating one of the four great Marian Dogmas of the Church, namely the Immaculate...

This season of Advent is a time of grace for us. It is a time of grace given to us to prepare our hearts so that we are ready to receive Christ at Christmas. That is what Christmas is all about, Jesus. We do not want to get lost in the frenzy of the run up to...

PREPARE THE WAY Friends, the theme for our reflection this week is Prepare the way. Prophet Isaiah in the first reading and John the Baptist in the Gospel echo the same theme. Isaiah says this to the people of Israel in Babylonian exile. Babylonian exile was the most...

BE AWAKE You must have heard or read a lot about what has happened few years back in Mumbai, India. Ten evil-minded men went on rampage at the most important places of the commercial capital. Most heartless creatures ever seen. They went around shooting every one...