Sunday Homilies

My sisters & Brothers in Christ, Today’s feast invites us to live in the awareness of the presence of the Triune God within us: The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The mystery of the Holy Trinity, a doctrine enunciated by the ecumenical councils of Nicaea and...

My Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Today is “Pentecost Sunday,” the fiftieth day after the Resurrection. On this day, we solemnly commemorate that great event when Jesus fulfills his promise of sending the Holy Spirit upon his timid disciples, who gathered behind the...

My Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, Today is the 7th and the last Sunday of Easter Season. The feast of “The Ascension of the Lord” that we celebrate today was actually last Thursday – exactly 40 days after Easter, but because of its importance and for pastoral...

JESUS MY REDEEMER PRAISED BE HIS HOLY NAME Dear brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, We are entering into the sixth Sunday of Easter; the liturgy of the word invites us to receive the Holy Spirit and to be witnessing for Christ. Throughout the readings we see the...

I AM THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE” My Sisters and Brothers in the Lord, Wishing you all Happy Mother’s day & 100th year Anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima. Today’s readings tell us how the early Church accepted the challenge of keeping Jesus’ memory alive by...

Today is Good Shepherd Sunday where we are invited to look at Jesus as that honorable shepherd who watches over and cares for his sheep.  The job of being a shepherd is an extremely difficult one to say the least.  I imagine that a job description would put most of us...

GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY My Brothers  & Sisters in the Risen Lord, The fourth Sunday of Easter is known as Good Shepherd Sunday and it is the “World Day of Prayer for Vocations.”  The scripture lessons for this day concern the role of the shepherds of God’s flock in...

THE RISEN JESUS IS ALWAYS WITH US My Sisters and Brothers in the Lord, Our Scripture lessons for today have one common, encouraging theme: No matter what happens in our lives, the risen Jesus is always with us.  God is always near to those who seek Him and who want to...

WORD AND SACRAMENT WORD OF GOD I am sure that all of your homes have Bibles. But do check to be certain that you own a Catholic Bible. This is important because the Catholic Bible includes books such as Wisdom, Sirach and Tobit which are not found in the non-Catholic...

Brothers  & Sisters in Risen Lord, In the year 2000 our Holy Father Pope john Paul instituted a new feast, the feast of divine mercy to be celebrated for the first time in 2001 on the second Sunday of Easter, today. It arises out of a series of apparitions which a...