Homilies
67 articles filed under Homilies.
17th Sunday In Ordinary Time Year B
Theme: All belongs to God When we are mindful of the source of our essential commodities, then we begin to take care of how to utilize...
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16th Sunday In Ordinary Time Year B
Theme: Care Preaching the Gospel and translating authentically in words and works can prove to be difficult especially when it comes to...
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15th Sunday In Ordinary Time Year B
Theme: Mission Those called by God to preach to others ought to know that they have entered into a minefield of obstacles. It is always...
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Thirteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time B
Theme: Life challenges A variety of good and unexpected challenges are among those that have shaped and guided our lives this far. In spite...
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Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
Theme: Even the storm obeys! The fact that vast water masses comprise two-thirds of the earth’s surface makes them appear mysterious and...
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Eleventh Sunday of Ordinary TimeYear B
Theme: Kingdom Today we handle the message given to us in parables. Parables are specific literary forms used to deliver a needed message...
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Tenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Year B
Theme: Sin by any other name is sin While defining the word name William Shakespeare said that whatever we call a rose, by any other name...
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Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles
Today we celebrate the feast of Saint Peter and Paul. Each of them went through their times of confinement, of social isolation. There were...
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Homily for the Solemnity of the Birth of Saint John the Baptist
Many of the questions that people ask in the gospels are worth pondering. In today’s gospel reading, we find one such question, ‘What will...
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Homily for Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time year B
I came across a saying of Saint Francis Xavier recently that caught my attention, "Be big in little things." It is one of those sayings...
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Homily for Tuesday, Tenth Week in Ordinary Time, year B
Mt. 5:13-16 This morning’s gospel reading follows on immediately from the account of the beatitudes, which was yesterday’s gospel reading....
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Second Sunday Of Lent Year B Theme: Surrender
Once armed attackers surprised a family on their way home where a bullet hit a young boy as he slept in the back seat. A short time later...
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1st Sunday Of Lent Year B Theme: Temptations
Lent is a season of introspection, a time of taking personal inventory and self-examination. These six weeks, set aside each year by the...
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Homily Ash Wednesday Theme: Be reconciled with God
Brothers and sisters, on this Ash Wednesday we enter a season of penance and mortification for forty days that precede Easter being called...
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6th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year B Theme: Everlasting love
Through the centuries, humanity has suffered a myriad illness some of which have altered the course of history. Nearer to our times,...
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5th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year B: Work & Pray
Work is whatever we expend energy on for the sake of accomplishing and achieving something. Ideally, work is not what we do for a living...
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4th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B: Prophet like Moses
At every age, there have been people of courage willing to risk their lives for others for a greater good. Such an initiative requires a...
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Third Sunday of Ordinary Time Year B Theme: Dealing With Discrepancies
The common belief is that God’s concerns are universal and that his mercy has been extended to all people. In practice, however, we realize...
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Second Sunday of Ordinary Time Year B Theme: Here I am
A simple glance at the readings of today will enable us to identify a unifying theme which is ‘vocation’. Samuel was called by God serve...
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Homily for the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Mark 6:17-29 We may be familiar with the expression, ‘speaking truth to power’. It can often be a dangerous business. John the Baptist...
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Homily for Tuesday, Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time
2 Thess 2:1-3a, 14-17 Mt 23:23-26 There is a verse in one of the prophets of the Old Testament, the prophet Micah, which many people feel...
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SAINT OF THE DAY: POPE SAINT PIUS X
On June 2, 1835, Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto saw the light of earth at Riesi, Province of Treviso, in Venice; on August 20, 1914, he saw the...
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Homily for Friday, Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time
Ez 37:1-14 Mt 22:34-40 The question that is put to Jesus in this morning’s gospel reading - ‘Which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’...
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Homily for Thursday, Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Ez 12:1-12 Mt 18:21–19:1 The parable Jesus speaks in today’s gospel reading has two clear messages. The first and most important message...
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