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HOW GRATEFUL ARE WE?

HOMILY FOR TWENTY-EIGHT SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR C. Readings: 2Kings 5:14-17;Psalm 98; 2Timothy 2:8-13 and Luke 17:11-19. Some of us often recount our pains, challenges, difficulties, disappointments, setbacks and often forget the goods we have received from God. With today’s liturgy, we recall the outbreak of Ebola disease in Nigeria sometime in July 2014 […]

THE NATURE OF GOD AND THE BEST COMMUNITY

SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY, YEAR A. Readings: Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9; Responsorial: Daniel 3:52-56; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 and John 3:16-18. In those days, religious divisions came from conflicting beliefs about God, rather than any conflict between theism and atheism. This division has caused many to look keenly to the nature of God. Among the […]

THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

HOMILY FOR PENTECOST SUNDAY, YEAR A. Readings: Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 103; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13 and John 20:19-23. Today we celebrate Pentecost Sunday, a day when the Church recalls the gifts of the Holy Spirit on Mary and the Apostles, the beginning of the Church and the start of her mission to all tongues and […]

THE VOICE OF PRAYER IN THE UPPER ROOM

HOMILY FOR SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER YEAR A. Readings: Act 1:12-14; Psalm 67; 1 Pet 4:13-16 and Jn 17:1-11. Traditionally, after the Solemnity of Ascension of the Lord, we celebrate World Communication Sunday as Christ communicates with his Father in prayer, in fulfilment of the promise of the Holy Spirit. For pastoral reasons, the Solemnity […]

I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU DESOLATE

HOMILY FOR SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER, YEAR A. Readings: Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; Psalm 65: 1-7, 16, 20; 1 Peter 3:15-18 and John 14:15-21. As we gradually approach the end of this beautiful season, the Church invites us to prepare our minds for the Lord’s Ascension into heaven that comes up on Thursday this week and […]

WHY WOULD CHRIST CONSIDER US WORTHY TO BE WHERE HE IS?

HOMILY FOR FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER, YEAR A. Readings: Acts 6:1-7; Psalm 33; 1 Peter 2:4-9 and John 14:1-12. The liturgy of today anticipates the Solemnity of the Ascension of our Lord into heaven, as Christ speaks in his farewell discourse of the many rooms prepared for us in his Father’s house. It reminds us […]

CHRIST THE GOOD SHEPHERD AND THE DOOR

HOMILY FOR FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY), YEAR A. Readings: Acts 2:14.36-41; Psalm 23; 1 Peter 2:20-25; John 10:1-10. Traditionally, on the fourth Sunday of Easter the Church celebrates Good Shepherd Sunday.  The gospel reading is usually from John chapter ten which has the parable of the good shepherd read in the three […]

THE ENCOUNTER WITH CHRIST AT EMMAUS

HOMILY FOR THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER, YEAR A. 23.04.2023. Readings: Acts 2:14.22-33; Psalm 16; 1 Peter 1:17-21 and Luke 24:13-25. In the liturgy of today, the post resurrection events of Christ continues in the life of the Apostles and the Christian community. The liturgy invites us to reflect on the Good News, that Christ did […]

FAITH AND FEAR

HOMILY FOR SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER (DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY) YEAR A. Readings: Acts 2:142-47; Psalm 118; 1 Peter 1:3-9 and John 20:19-31 Today is a day of mixed feelings. The memory of the crucifixion is so fresh in the minds of the apostles, and they lock themselves in the upper room for fear of the […]

MAUNDY THURDAY

HOMILY FOR HOLY THURSDAY MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER. Readings: Exodus 12:1-8.11-14; Psalm 116; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 and John 13:1-15. Tonight, we begin the Paschal Triduum of the Holy Week, which will come to an end with the Easter Vigil. In a subtle manner, it is a mass that last for three days as the […]

HAVE YOU EVER EXPERIENCED HUMILIATION?

HOMILY FOR PALM SUNDAY (THE PASSION OF OUR LORD), YEAR A. Readings: Isaiah 50:4-7; Psalm 22; Philippians 2:6-11 and Matthew 26:14-27:66. Each time we turn to sin or remain in our sins, we betray and deny Christ again, strip him of his garment and keep humiliating him daily. Today we celebrate the last Sunday of […]

CHRIST THE GIVER OF LIFE

HOMILY FOR FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT, YEAR A. Readings: Ezekiel37:12-14; Psalm 130; Romans 8:8-11 and John 11:1-45. In the liturgy of today, we recall the creation story of the lifelessness of man and the breath of life that was given to man. On the first Sunday of this season, Christ was led by the Spirit […]

THE JOY THAT COMES WITH LIGHT

HOMILY FOR THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT (LAETARE SUNDAY), YEAR A. Readings: 1 Samuel 16:1.6-7.10-13; Psalm 23; Ephesians 5:8-14 and John 9:1-41. Traditionally, the fourth Sunday of Lent calls us to rejoice as the Latin verb ‘Laetare’ indicates, similar to the third Sunday of Advent’s Gaudete. The entrance antiphon goes thus: “Rejoice, Jerusalem, and all […]