Homily Fourteenth Sunday Year B Reading 1: Ezekiel was given a difficult task by God. He was called to be a prophet, a spokesperson, for God’s words. He was sent to speak this...
“Truly ‘a faithful friend is the medicine of life.’ (Ecclus.6:16) Truly ‘a faithful friend is a strong defense.’ (Ib. 14) For what will not a genuine friend perform? What pleasure will he not...
Fourteenth Sunday Gospel Year BJesus departed from there and came to his native place, accompanied by his disciples. Jesus retuned to Nazareth, possibly to visit him mother Mary. When the sabbath came he began to...
“ SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1If friendship with a human person increases my growth potential, what are we to say about friendship with Jesus? There is no comparison. Jesus...
“No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a...
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Humility is like a pair of scales; the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble...
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1He who is truly humble never thinks that any injustice is made of him. We should be ashamed of ourselves when we...
Homily: Thirteenth Sunday Year B Reading 1: God created life; he didn’t make death. He created us in his own image and likeness to live forever. When he breathed life into man and...
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1That the virtue of humility consists in the knowledge of certain truths, I had already recognized. These truths are: that I am nothing, that...
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Gospel BWhen Jesus had crossed again (in the boat) to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea. One of...
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1"Humility isn't thinking little of self; it isn't thinking of self at all." The focus of humility is the other, not ourselves....
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1"If you ask me what is the most important virtue, I would say humility. If you would ask me what is second, I would...
SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1"How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and devotion...
“God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and...
Homily: Twelfth Sunday Year B Reading 1: Job was once rich, comfortable, respected, blessed. Then he lost everything, became an object of mockery, afflicted with physical problems. His friends said it was because...
“Let the brothers ever avoid appearing gloomy, sad, and clouded, like the hypocrites; but let one ever be found joyous in the Lord, amiable, gracious” (St. Francis of Assisi). No one wants...
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary: Gospel BOn that day, as evening drew on, Jesus said to them, "Let us cross to the other side." Leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the...
“ SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Joy is the certain sign that life has achieved its goal”. (Henri Bergson) What is the goal of our life? Why do we...
“ SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1The trouble with many people is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion,...
“Joy is essential to the spiritual life. Whatever we may think of or say about God, when we are not joyful, our thoughts and words cannot bear fruit. Jesus reveals to us God’s...
Homily Eleventh Sunday Year B Reading 1: In the first reading the prophet Ezekiel is proclaiming words of comfort to a people in exile. They are shattered. Their former greatness as a nation...
“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God remains for ever” (Isaiah 40:8) While the word of God endures forever, because it is God’s word and thus true, will...
"Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the satisfaction I so much desire, the result is...
Eleventh Sunday Gospel BJesus said to the crowds:“This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep...
“The LORD, your God, is in your midst, a mighty savior, who will rejoice over you with gladness, and renew you in his love, who will sing joyfully because of you, as on...
“Solitude is listening to the voice that calls you the Beloved. It is being alone with the One who says, ‘You are my Beloved, I want to be with you. Don’t go running...
"This sacred bread when eaten is not changed into our substance, but rather changes us into itself" (St. Augustine). Later, Pope St. Leo the Great would say the same thing: "The effect of...
Jesus promised to be within us and to be with us. Jesus fulfills the promise to be with us in his Eucharistic presence in the Tabernacle. This is the new Holy of Holies...
Homily: Feast of Corpus Christi Year B His Body and Blood: Sacrifice and Meal
By spiritaflame 11:17 AMHomily Feast of Corpus Christi Year B Reading 1: God has revealed to Moses the conditions of the Covenant that he will enter into with the Chosen People. These conditions are the...
Jesus promised to be with us and within us. He fulfills this double promise in the gift of the Eucharist. Jesus, in giving us his Body and Blood, shares his very life with...
FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI: GOSPEL REFLECTIONS BOn the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, "Where do you want us to...
When Jesus first revealed that he would give us his Body and Blood to eat and drink, some of his disciples found this teaching too hard to accept. Jesus went to the core...
