Sunday Homilies
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham)
Who is my neighbour?Let me tell you the story of a modern Samaritan. It is not a story but it is a real incident that happened last week. It was on one of the Indian news channels called NDTV on this Friday. It was about a man called Vijay who was driving his car with...
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Francis)
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, on this Sunday we listened to the Scripture passages in which we heard of the coming of God’s salvation as prophesied and spoken in the Book of the prophet Isaiah, which was fulfilled in the time of the New Testament, with the...
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham)
IMPORTANCE OF LAY MINISTRIESJesus called ordinary men to be his disciples. Jesus then began to train the disciples for their future ministries. In our gospel today Jesus called together a group of seventy-two and sent them out two-by-two, instructing them to preach...
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Francis)
A priest was invited by a couple to have a dinner with them together with their three children. While they were having a dinner, the eldest child announced that he wanted to be a priest. All of them were happy. Then the priest asked the boy why he wanted to be a...
Corpus Christi (Fr. Francis)
The Mystery of Faith As Catholics we profess our faith at Mass every Sunday. After God’s Word has been proclaimed and preached, we recite the Creed, usually the Nicene Creed. It is a way of summing up God’s Word that reminds us of who God is, what God has done for us,...
The Most Holy Trinity (Fr. Francis)
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, on this Sunday after the Solemnity of the Pentecost, the Universal Church again celebrates another great and very important Solemnity, one that is concerning the very center tenet and distinctiveness of our Christian faith that is...
Pentecost (Fr. Francis)
A little boy stops in front of a church with his bike and he sees the pastor come out. The boy wants to go in the church, but is afraid his bike will be stolen. He tells the pastor his concern, and the pastor says "Don’t worry, the Holy Spirit will watch it.” So the...
Ascension of the Lord (Fr. Francis)
Our Lord returns to the Heavenly Father, but he is still with us through the Holy Spirit. He now commissions us his disciples to continue his work; to keep spreading his message of good news and to keep living and proclaiming his gospel. We are on the journey towards...
6th Sunday of Easter (Fr. Francis)
Today’s Gospel, John 14:23-29, continues the reading from the long discourse that, in the Fourth Gospel, Jesus gives at the Last Supper (John 13:13-17:26).Throughout the discourse Jesus speaks a good deal about “going away” and “returning”.It is important to...
5th Sunday of Easter (Fr. Francis)
A young woman was about to get married when it was discovered that her brother had been diagnosed as having severe kidney problems. Without a speedy transplant he would die. Having consulted her boyfriend and family she decided to donate one of her kidneys to her...