Sunday Homilies

TO GAIN SOMETHING WE NEED TO FORGO SOMETHING Few years back when I was travelling to tourist place in India , I had a young couple travelling with me for their holidays or honeymoon. It was a long nine or ten hour’s journey in the train. To kill the time they bought a...

The Fourth Sunday of Lent is called Lætare (Rejoice) Sunday, from the first words of today’s liturgy. As on Gaudete Sunday in Advent, rose-colored vestments may replace violet, and flowers may grace the altar, symbolizing the Church's joy in anticipation of the...

As we continue our journey this season, on this third Sunday of Lent, we celebrate Christ the fullness of the law and the wisdom of God. Today, the Church calls us to rededicate ourselves to Christ. This is because He is the fulfillment of God’s commandment. In our...

All of us are born thirsty. The beauty of God’s creation is that 70 percent of the earth is covered with water. And you know 65 percent of human body is also made up of water. So any shift in this balance will make you thirsty. And also God has created within us a...

Some years ago, a woman and man in my parish who had been married civilly many years before, asked that their marriage vows be validated and blessed by the church. To do this, the couple was required to prove that both of them had been baptized. Soon enough, the man’s...

TRANSFIGARATION Transfiguration is such an important event in the life of Christ and the church that we get it at least twice a year as our Gospel readings. Every 2nd Sunday of the Lent and on August 6th, the feast of transfiguration. At the very outset let me give...

Saint Jerome, the brilliant doctor of the Church, lived for twenty-five years in the cave where the Child Jesus was born. One time he prayed to Jesus thus: “Dear Child, You have suffered much to save me; how can I make amends?” “What can you give me, Jerome?” a voice...

Temptation some years back we had the same readings for the Bible sharing group. And I asked them to share what they feel about today’s readings. One young man got up and said “ Father, thank God I am not the only one who is tempted. Adam was tempted and even Jesus...

I remember a story about a horse and its rider. The horse was galloping at full speed. A bystander, amazed at the wild sight, cried to the rider: ‘Where are you going?’ The riders answer was……………….”Don't ask me; ask my horse!” Friends, this may be simple little story,...

JESUS CAME TO CLEANSE US The usual way of understanding the gospel is ‘There are lepers even today in some parts of the world. And there are many people whom we treat others as lepers. People who are social outcastes. Jesus was welcoming and inclusive to the leper and...