Homilies
The Test of Real Friendship
Homily for 7th Sunday in Ordinary time 2012 Can you keep a secret? I have a confession to make. I have 766 friends on Facebook. True, that’s the latest as of 9.54 pm last night and counting. It’s quite a lot of ‘friends’ really. But many of them are just acquaintances. Some I just met […]
Christ: the lover of the unlovable
Homily for 6th Sunday in Ordinary time 2012 Our Gospel today is one of those gospels that is really not Good News for us when we hear it for the first time. It is seemingly ‘not’ Good News for us who are called Christians because to live out this noble name is to imitate Jesus […]
A Day in the Life of Jesus
Homily for 5th Sunday in Ordinary time 2012 If you may have remembered, three Sundays ago, we heard Jesus inviting the disciples of John the Baptist to ‘come and see’ where he lives. Then on the following Sunday, we heard him again as he was walking along the sea of Galilee. This time he was inviting […]
‘Grounded in God’ the Source of Christian Authority
A Homily for the 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2012 Some of us might have heard of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador. On the night of March 24, 1980, as he was saying a memorial Mass for a friend’s mother, he was shot through the heart by some ‘hired’ killers, because he was giving […]
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