Sunday Homilies

Inflame our hearts with fire; Pentecost Sunday Today is the one day in the whole of the liturgical year which is dedicated to the Holy Spirit, the often forgotten or neglected person of the Most Blessed Trinity. I am not complaining, because the Holy Spirit himself is...

Today’s readings describe the Ascension of the Lord Jesus into his Heavenly glory after promising his disciples the Holy Spirit as their source of Heavenly power and commanding them to bear witness to him by their lives and preaching throughout the world. But the...

Go and Get on with your life Today we celebrate the Ascension Sunday. Remembering a great event in the life of Jesus. How he assumed into heaven body and soul and made to sit at the right hand of the father, and given dominion, power and sovereignty. Something we can...

Six Sundays ago, we celebrated Easter. Throughout this month we will celebrate First Holy Communion in our parish and next Sunday the Ascension of the Lord. Two weeks from now we will celebrate Pentecost. And in seven months and sixteen days, we will celebrate...

WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF CHRISITAN LIFE I read a story about a small church in the Swiss Alps which is very popular among the locals. The reason for their affection is the story of how it came to be built. The story goes like this. Two brothers worked a family farm,...

A single hexagonal nut holds the whirling rotors of a helicopter in place. That nut is called the ‘Jesus nut.’ That reminds me of our Gospel today (John 15:1-8) where Jesus describes himself as the true vine and we are the branches feeding from the vine. Just as the...

Since 1963, the Church Universal has used this Good Shepherd Sunday to “pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into His harvest.” But prayer for priestly and religious vocations takes place in a context — both social and ecclesial — as does the response...

Can you hear the sound of the Good Shepherd's voice Because God is so far beyond human comprehension, when he has to be referred to, Bible often used imageries to talk about God. Even Jesus used imageries to talk about God the Father. These imageries were often drawn...

“The mystery of faith,” the priest proclaims. Notice that he does not say,”A mystery of faith,” but the mystery. And what is that mystery? It is the mystery of the Lord’s Passion, Death and Resurrection sacramentally re-enacted upon the altar, bringing the central...

Jesus Christ: wounded healer For the past two weeks when I was reading the gospels about Jesus’ appearance after his resurrection, the question that was popping up in my mind was; “Why wounds in the resurrected body of Jesus? In other words, Why Our Lord, when He rose...