Sunday Homilies

Len Sweet tells this story about Karl Barth, the famous Swiss theologian. It may be a true story or an evangelized version. Karl Barth was riding a streetcar in his home city of Basel, Switzerland. He took a seat next to a tourist, and the two men started chatting...

SHARE AND LISTENStory of “Emmaus Journey” is one of the wonderful stories after resurrection. There are volumes written about it. There are so many retreat centres and journals and magazines named after it. But today I want to see it as a story of two depressed men...

Hace veinte años el papa San Juan Pablo II nombró el domingo siguiente la Pascua de Resurrección como “el Domingo de la Divina Misericordia”.  Anteriormente se había llamado la fiesta sólo el “Segundo Domingo de Pascua”.  Sí es el segundo domingo de Pascua, pero este...

In Saint Faustina’s now famous Diary, she attributes these words to our Lord:“Encourage souls to place great trust in My fathomless mercy. Let the weak, sinful soul have no fear to approach Me, for even if it had more sins than there are grains of sand in the world,...

DOUBTING THOMASToday is Divine Mercy Sunday. We are asked to preach about the “Trust in the great and infinite mercy of the Lord.” And the gospel today is about ‘doubting Thomas.’ Thomas cuts a sorry figure by doubting the resurrection of the Lord. He wants to touch...

I miss so many of the things that make Easter special. I miss the Church filled with people, the joyful music, the beautiful flowers, the pastel decorations, the babies with goofy Easter outfits who have no idea why people are smiling at them. I miss things that I...

Let me wish you a Happy Easter.One of the most fascinating books in the Bible is Ecclesiastes. The book begins saying “The words of the preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem. Vanity of Vanities, says the preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.” Then he...

On Holy Thursday, we celebrate three anniversaries:1) the anniversary of the first Holy Mass,2) the anniversary of the institution of the ministerial priesthood in order to perpetuate the Holy Mass, convey God’s forgiveness to repentant sinners, and preach the Good...

Jn 12:1-11: Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. There they made him a supper; Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at table with him. Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and...

After hearing the Passion narrative there is no need to retrace in great detail the events there described. But we might reflect how Christ was no stranger to hardship, privation and suffering, long before that final day of his life.Our Lord Jesus was not the first...