HOMILY FOR PALM SUNDAY 2020 Palm Sunday is the last Sunday in Lent and the beginning of the most solemn week in the Christian Calendar when we commemorate the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Holy Week is a sober week when we avoid […]
CHRIST OUR RESURRECTION AND LIFE My brothers and sisters, on this fifth Sunday of Lent, the mother church presents us with a physiological condition called death and what happens after death. Day in, Day out, families and friends undergo traumatic experiences at the death of […]
Christ Heals Our blindness Today is fourth Sunday of Lent called “Laetare” Sunday. This Sunday is marked by a relaxation from the penitential character of the Lenten season. This Sunday, the Holy Mother Church urges us to be joyful and relax because Christ our shepherd illuminates […]
CHRIST OUR LIVING WATER In the first reading from the book of Exodus, (Ex 17:3-7), the people of Israel made a complaint against Moses and God because they were dying of thirst at Horeb, in the desert. They wondered why Moses had brought them out […]
Transfiguration of Jesus Christ The First Reading, (Gen 12:1-4), narrated the call of Abram, which underscored the importance of faith. Abram who was from the Chaldean city of Ur in the modern-day Iraq was directed by God to set out from his ancestral homeland […]
Jesus’ Recommitment to the Father My dear friends in Christ, I welcome you to this grace-filled season of Lent. Lent is a penitential period when we commemorate the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness to prepare himself for his ministry. He fasted and faced […]
THEME: A CALL TO HOLINESS The first reading of today, (Lev 19:1-2, 17-18), invites us to a life of holiness. It stated, “be holy for I the Lord your God, am holy.” The Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the church called Lumen Gentium, has […]
HOMILY FOR THE 6TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A THE LAW OF CHRIST Jesus said in the Gospel of today, (Mt 5:17-37), “do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish them but […]
HOMILY FOR THE 5TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A THEME: YOU ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH AND LIGHT OF THE WORLD The context of the first reading from the book of prophet Isaiah, (Is 58:7-10), was the complaint of the people of Israel […]