Homilies and Reflections
Quality of the faithful, not quantity of the crowd
Homily for First Sunday of Advent 2012 “Four Cardinals, 54 Bishops, 700 priests, 1 million people.” This was on the headlines in one of the Philippine newspapers yesterday, the day after the National thanksgiving for the Canonization of our second Filipino Saint, San Pedro Calungsod. I might just be carried away by this amazing gathering in […]
Rediscovering the meaning of our Christian commitment
Homily for Christ the King Sunday year B 2012 The feast of Christ the King was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925. In his introduction to his encyclical Quas Primas (which explains the significance and the meaning of this feast in our Christian life and in our world), the Pope wrote: We referred to […]
Christian Hope: Power over trials and tribulations
Homily for 33rd Sunday in Ordinary time year B 2012 Many of us here might have heard of the story of Helen Keller. If you do, please bear with me if I have to repeat it to you because her story is such an inspiration that I can’t help but go back to it every […]
Generosity is not how much we give, but how much does it cost us
Homily for 32nd Sunday in Ordinary time year B 2012 Jesus in the gospel last Sunday summed up the commandments into one commandment of love- love of God and love of our neighbor as ourselves. Certainly many of us have our own ways of listening and fulfilling this commandment. Some of us went to a […]
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