Homilies

‘Stay Awake’- the message of hope

Homily for 1st Sunday of Advent  2011 A few months ago, I watched a reality show program in a Philippine television which aims to grant people’s wishes. This particular episode was about a high school student who is left alone in this world. Her mother, the last of her relations died and she was left literally […]

Is Christ really the King of my Life?

Homily for the solemnity of Christ the King  November 20, 2011 Last week I went to garage sales around Bendigo area in Australia. I was struck by the many things people can acquire only to realize later on that they don’t actually need them. So they would want to get rid of them. It is […]

Homily on the Parable of the Talents

Homily for 33rd Sunday in Ordinary time 2011 (Year A) There was a young Filipino guy who was born from a very poor family. At a young age, he was forced to work to support his mother and all his 5 siblings after his father left the family for another woman. He worked in the dangerous […]

The 2 Commandments of LOVE

Loving God and loving our neighbours as ourselves Homily for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary time (A) Moses has received ten commandments from God, yet the Jewish people understood these commandments to have been a summary of hundreds of precepts. Thus, they have come up with 613 commandments all in all. Three hundred sixty-five of these […]