Homilies For This Week
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Sunday of Week 17 in Ordinary Time - Year C
Jesus gave us the model of all prayer when He taught us the Our Father. “Do you and I pray correctly?” When we pray to whom do we address our...
The Best Of All Prayers
Monday of Week 17 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
The lsraelites had just concluded a covenant of love with God when Moses left them for a short time to commune with God and to receive the tablets of...
Show Compassion To The Wayward
Monday of Week 17 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
Jeremiah was commanded to use a visual aid as a means to illustrate the decay in the people's relationship with God. The rotted loin cloth, no longer...
Why A Tiny Mustard Seed Is Symbolism For Jesus And The Apostles
Tuesday of Week 17 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
Some people have read the Bible and come to the conclusion that the God of the Old Testament is a God of judgement, always ready to pounce on you if...
We Need To Be Sowers Of Goodness
Tuesday of Week 17 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
When disasters occur we often look for someone to blame. It's the government's fault. It's our neighbour's fault. It's God's fault. It happened, too,...
How Do We React When Things Go Wrong?
Wednesday of Week 17 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
Having spent 40 days in the presence of God Moses left Him to meet his people - his face so radiant that they could not bear to look at him....
Radiating God In Our Lives
Wednesday of Week 17 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
Jeremiah had a difficult and frustrating mission in trying to call the people of his time to repentance. He could have identified with our modern...
When Life Is Hard God Is Always There To Help Us
Thursday of Week 17 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
People who love each other very much find parting, even if for a short time, very painful. When they have to leave they keep something, perhaps a...
Being With The Lord
Thursday of Week 17 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
What is God really like? None of us knows but in today's First Reading there is a helpful insight. Jeremiah watched a potter at work, carefully...
We Were Formed In God's Image!
Friday of Week 17 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
A summary of the liturgical year observed by the Chosen People is given in today's first reading. Feasts were established so that the Israelites...
Remembering Important Events Of The Year
Friday of Week 17 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
When Jeremiah preached he had no idea that all of his work was really going to bear fruit in one person. Nor did he even suspect that there would be...
We Are Called To Build Up God's Kingdom On Earth
Saturday of Week 17 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
According to the Law of Moses, as described in today's first reading, the lsraelites were to set aside every seventh year as a Sabbath year, a year...
Our Modern World And John The Baptist
Saturday of Week 17 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
Sometimes nothing seems quite right in this world. Not only do the rich become richer and the poor get poorer, but the powerful become more powerful...
Better To Have God On Your Side Than Be Rich
Sunday of Week 18 in Ordinary Time - Year A
Sometimes we think of saints as super-human, near-perfect, people. But were they really like that? They were special people, certainly, but human...
Avoiding Life's Excesses - Do We Talk Too Much?
Sunday of Week 18 in Ordinary Time - Year B
People whom Jesus had miraculously fed with five loaves and two fish came to Him with false expectations. Here was a man, they thought, to meet...
What Do We Expect From Christ?
Sunday of Week 18 in Ordinary Time - Year C
No one wants to be thought of or called a fool. As far as I know today's Gospel is the only time in the Bible that God calls a specific man a fool,...
How We Can Live Wisely
Monday of Week 18 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
Did the Apostles believe Jesus had the power to feed this large crowd of people who followed Him and were hungry? He was testing them in today's...
Never Forget That No Task Is Impossible For God!
Monday of Week 18 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
People in this life who want 'to get ahead' usually learn to tell others what they want to hear! It takes courage to say what they need to hear....
Jesus Had No Time To Grieve
Tuesday of Week 18 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
Were Aaron and Miriam jealous of Moses when they said, “Has the Lord spoken to Moses only?”
In this incident a virtue of Moses is mentioned –...
Never Take Your Eyes Off Jesus
Tuesday of Week 18 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
Nothing can save the Israelites. God admits this in today's first reading. Their sins of disobedience and unfaithfulness have caused them injuries...
Never Take Your Eyes Off Jesus
Wednesday of Week 18 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
The lsraelites found it tough in the wilderness. Their past should have told them that their God really cared for them. They had been slaves in Egypt...
We Show Our True Colours In Times Of Adversity
Wednesday of Week 18 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
This passage from Jeremiah has always been one of my favourites because of those beautiful words of God, “I have loved you with an everlasting...
Indomitable Faith
Thursday of Week 18 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
If ever we have experienced real thirst we can appreciate how the lsraelites felt without water, especially in the desert, until God miraculously...
To Know And Love The Real Christ
Thursday of Week 18 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
In recent times, when America was going through a great depression in the 1930s, Hollywood came to the rescue. Many films were based on the rags to...
A Happy Ending!
Friday of Week 18 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
We must lose our life for Jesus' sake in order to save it and thus never experience death, Saint Matthew tells us in today's Gospel reading.
For...
Accepting The Cross Is Christ's Gauge Of Our Love For Him
Friday of Week 18 in Ordinary Time - Cycle II
The mighty Assyrians were for a long time the relentless oppressors of the Jews. Nahum, the prophet, foresaw the impending destruction of this feared...
Only Jesus Has The Answer To Death
Saturday of Week 18 in Ordinary Time - Cycle I
There is a familiar ring to the words in today's first reading about loving God with one's whole being. This is because Jesus quotes those very words...
Faith In The Bible Demands A Practical Response
