Tag Archive | New Testament
Resurrection of Jesus- a call to be Easter People
Homily for Easter Vigil year C 2013 Tonight is the night of all nights. Tonight we celebrate our salvation. Tonight we remember and re-live that momentous event in our salvation history when our God has shown us that there is an end to sin and to death through the resurrection of his Son Jesus Christ […]
Easter: The Proof that God chooses the best for us
Homily for Easter Sunday 2012 A woman in her mid-50’s boarded a plane. But when she got to her assigned seat, she immediately burst out saying she didn’t like her assigned seat. She didn’t like it because beside her was a ‘black’ man sitting. ‘I can’t seat here beside this ‘vermin’ she said loudly. She […]
Behind the 12 Days of Christmas
There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled us. What in the world do leaping lords, French hens, swimming swans, and especially the partridge that won’t come out of the pear tree have to do with Christmas? From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practise their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this […]
Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
Did Jesus really rise from the dead? To answer this question it is necessary to be sure in the first place whether he was really dead, and in the second place whether he was genuinely and uniquely alive again afterwards. Accounts of people being raised from the dead are found elsewhere in the Bible, including […]
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