Sunday Homilies

All Souls’ Day specially set apart that we may remember and pray for our dear ones who have gone for their eternal reward and who are currently in a state of ongoing purification.Ancient belief supported by Church tradition: People of all religions have believed in...

It is quite amazing that we who have faith and believe we will live forever can sometimes allow ourselves to be influenced or contaminated by the unspiritual viewpoint of western culture. We could have heaven on earth, but sometimes we create hell on earth! Who are...

Grandmother used to point to a man in church whom she’d known since they were both children. “He was such a pious boy,” the grandmother always said approvingly. “He’d be in that same third pew each morning earlier than any of us, and he’d stay later. He knelt so long,...

EMPTY VESSELS MAKE MUCH NOISEI remember a simple fable which I heard long back. It was about a young man who was fed up with the life of this world and so he wanted to renounce this world and become a Sanyasi or a monk. He retired to the forest and saw an old Rishi or...

PrayerAs a seventh-grade math teacher, Angela Duckworth discovered that IQ wasn’t the only thing that separated her highest performers from her lowest performers. Some of her best students didn’t have high IQ scores, and some of her smartest students weren’t among her...

ARE YOU CHANGING THE PLAN OF GOD BY PERSISTENT PRAYER OR REALISING ITOne of the things that most of us hate is “nagging” or “pestering”. We feel so irritated and angry and embarrassed when we are pestered. We want to get rid of such people and so we are prepared to do...

“What kind of Thanksgiving dinner is this? Where’s the turkey, Chuck? Don’t you know anything about Thanksgiving dinners? Where’s the mashed potatoes? Where’s the cranberry sauce? Where’s the pumpkin pie?” With those harsh words, Peppermint Patty berated poor Charlie...

I remember a story I read on the internet. It is about a man who dies and goes to heaven. And St Peter takes him on a tour round his office. In the first room he sees a flurry of angels answering e-mails, faxes, letters, and telephones. They are all very busy. St....

A story is told of a small town where there were no nightclubs. Eventually, however, a nightclub was built in that town. One of the churches, in the area, was so disturbed that they conducted several all-night prayer services, and asked the Lord to burn down the...

Listen to the words of prophet Habakkuk in the first reading, “ How long O Lord! How long. You do not listen! ……….You do not intervene! …………..And you do not judge or give retribution!”What was his problem? What was he lamenting about? To understand this we need to...