Homilies
July 16, 2006 - Repair the world: preach Gospel, cast out devil and heal the sick
While commissioning the apostles in today's Gospel, Jesus gives them, and all of us , a preview of the mission of His Church after the resurrection. The Catechism teaches: “Since, like all the faithful, lay Christians are entrusted by God with the apostolate by virtue of their Baptism and Confirmation,...Read More
July 9, 2006 - Thorn in the flesh
The central idea of today’s liturgical readings can be summed up thus: “God’s power is made perfect in human weakness”. The very first reading, where God chose Ezekiel to become a prophet, clearly substantiate this point. Ezekiel is the best symbol of weakness, because he was an exile and had all its disabilities. As an exile he possessed the stigma of a rebel. Yet God decided to demonstrate his power of regenerating His people through Him.Read More
July 2, 2006 - KEY TO UNLOCK THE DIVINE TREASURY
Today’s two miracle episodes—healing of the woman afflicted with bleeding for twelve years, and bringing the dead child of Jairus back to life—are very comforting and encouraging news to all of us who in some way or other are passing through various struggles either in our spiritual or temporal life, especially for those who are beset with agonies and are so badly in need of a special divine intervention at this particular point of time.Read More
June 25, 2006 - WHY ARE YOU TERRIFIED?
“Why are you terrified? Do you not have faith?” These questions of Jesus to the first disciples are perennial questions to every single disciple of every age. Besides, they are very personal questions to me and to you who are given the gratuitous gift of God—the gift of the discipleship of Christ.Read More
June 18, 2006 - The Solemnity of Corpus Christi
Today, we are celebrating the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. This practice of celebrating Corpus Christi as a feast had its origin in the pleadings and petitions of the 13th century Augustinian nun Saint Juliana of Ličge. (By the way, Corpus Christi is the Latin term for the Body and Blood of Christ). At the age of sixteen, before she joined the convent, she had a vision of a silver moon with a small section altered. While deep in prayer, the Lord explained that the moon was the ritual year of the Church, and the altered area meant something was incomplete... Read More
June 4, 2006 - Pentecost Goes on.....
The feast of Pentecost is a call to re-live the greatest intervention of God in human history—the first Pentecost at the Upper Room—when the Apostles were “clothed with power from on High” (Lk. 24: 49), when they were “baptized with the Holy Spirit” ( Acts. 1:15), when men of every language joined in one song of praise to God, and...Read More
May 21, 2006 - Be Jesus' Beloved ones!
Last Sunday, through the parable of the vine and its branches Jesus told us how much we are related to him and how precious we are for him: we are His own branches well nourished and vitalized to bear the fruit of His labor. And in today’s gospel, which is the continuation of that same discourse, he expatiates on the theme of his love further. He reveals how deeply he loves us and for that very reason how much we need to remain in His love and share it with others... Read More
May 14, 2006 - Is Your Life Bearing Enough?
Today’s Gospel dealing with the parable of the vine and the branches is really applicable to us as its theme is bearing fruition of our life. Since everybody wants to make his life most fruitful and not even a single person desires to leave his life barren it is well that we learn that secret from the very author of life himself... Read More.
May 7, 2006 - Jesus My Shepherd!
It is to illustrate the depth of the caring love of Jesus Christ for each one of us and, our reciprocal obligation to belong entirely to Him, that Jesus used the metaphor of the Shepherd and the sheep. In fact, the metaphor of the sheep and the shepherd is most appropriate to bring out this truth. The most remarkable thing about their relationship is that the sheep and the shepherd never stay apart; they always live together...Read More.