Sunday Homilies

Not much is known about the Magi or the wise men who came to visit Jesus on this feast of Epiphany. But what we do know is that these wise men traveled a long distance seeking the Messiah, the newborn king, a trip that took probably 1 to 2-years to complete. They had...

Since we celebrate the Feast of Mary, the Mother of God on New Year’s Day, may I 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 abundance of Divine...

Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph On the last Sunday of the calendar year, we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family.  On this feast day we are offering our own families and all their members on the altar to ask God’s blessing on them and to obtain for them the...

The Holy family is model to modern familiesIf 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...

“Today is born our Savior, Christ the Lord” (cf. Lk 2:11) From the infinite Kingdom of Heaven, the Word of God journeys to the small town of Bethlehem. The Light from Light enters a darkened world in the middle of the night. The Only-Begotten Son of God, born of the...

A few days before the celebration of the Nativity of the Lord, we cry out with the Prophet Isaiah, “Drop down dew from above, you heavens, and let the clouds rain down the Just One; let the earth be opened and bring for a Savior” (cf. Is 45:8). Similarly, with the...

This is the last Sunday of Advent and we now move into the more immediate phase of our preparation for the great feast of Christmas. All these past weeks of Advent we have been hearing reading from prophets describing the grandeur of Messianic times and how to prepare...

I would like to speak to you today about the prophets.  The Hebrew Scriptures, the Old Testament, is full of dynamic leaders.  There is Noah and Moses, Abraham and David.  There are kings and queens, male and female judges, patriarchs and matriarchs.  But of all the...

A voice was heard. “A voice of one crying out in the desert, Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths” (Mt 3:3). It was the voice of an austere man — John the Baptist. He lived a life of radical simplicity, having separated himself from the luxuries of the...

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? OR PREPARING FOR? We are in the season of Advent. Advent is a season of waiting or longing. There are two ways or types of waiting.You write your exams and you wait for the result. Here you can do nothing much about it. Already your fate or...