Sunday Homilies

I remember a wonderful story of Easter Sunday. Its about a parish priest in a village who went to the pub on Easter Sunday. Don’t be shocked. It was not to celebrate Easter, but because he found no men in the church for Sunday mass and the women told him that they...

Tongues special Today is Palm Sunday. it’s a wonderful day to remember Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem. This is one of the rare days we have two gospels read. And these two gospels are quite opposite to each other. In the sense, in the first Gospel it's all...

Caterpillar or a fig, who are you Today’s gospel titled “Woman caught in adultery” is taken from the 8th chapter of St. John which deals with Jesus as light of the world. That is why immediately after this incident Jesus declares “I am the light of the world and he...

Do U Miss The Joy of Being With The Father The gospel we read today is an interesting passage from Luke. The reason why I say it is interesting is because, some call it as the parable of the prodigal son and some call it as the parable of the prodigal father. The word...

Be fruitful!  One of the housebound persons whom I visit every week bought two plants recently. One is an orange tree and another a lemon tree. She saw that they are planted in the front garden and she says they will bear fruit within six months. That is what the...

Tabor Experience in Lent What do you think of advertisements on the TV? You like them. O.K what about the trailers of the movies? Some may like them. You know why all these ads and trailers are? What is their purpose? It is nothing but to give us a knowledge about the...

Lead us not into temptation What is common to our human nature is temptation. Whether you are in the palace or whether you are on the pavement you are prone to tempted. No escape from that. Temptation is so common and so embarrassing that we often don’t want to talk...

Today’s readings rigorously confront our inherent desire to control and our very human self-absorption; When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do one’s faults when one speaks. Our prayers are like in fact the shaking of the sieve of our lives. When we open our...

When someone hates you, you have two choices: you can hate them back or you can refuse to hate. When someone hurts you, you can respond in two ways: you can hurt them back or you can refuse to hurt. The people who hurt and hate us do not deserve our love and...

"If the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised, and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is in vain"  1Cor 15:16 In today's second reading  Corinthian Christians have not denied Christ’s resurrection but they have denied only the resurrection of...