Homilies
Spiritual preparation for Christ’s coming
Homily for 1st Sunday of Advent 2013 (Year A) The other day, one of my best friends, whom I haven’t seen for almost a year now, called in to Bendigo from South Australia. He didn’t tell me beforehand that he’s coming because he wanted to pay me a surprise visit. It would have been a […]
Is Christ the King in our hearts?
Homily for the Solemnity of Christ the King 2013 Year C When I was a kid, specifically in my grade school years, the idea of a king always fascinates me. The type of a king I read in the book or heard from fairy tale stories always captured my imagination and even made me aspire […]
Typhoon Yolanda: Sign of the End of our ‘Little Worlds’
Homily for 33rd Sunday in Ordinary time year C 2013 Certainly most of us if not all, would have seen and have been touched by what had happened in the Philippines last week. The scenes of destruction and the images of helplessness, despair and death are so unreal and unimaginable that I said to someone […]
The Resurrection: The light at the end of the tunnel
Homily for 32nd Sunday in Ordinary time year C 2013 Last month some parts of the Philippines had been hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake. It caused damages in homes,centuries-old churches and other infrastructures. And just the other day, these same people more or less had to face another blow. The strongest typhoon in the […]