March 11, 2018 Fourth Sunday of Lent Homily
The message for today is quite simple – “All is gift.” Everything we see, feel, or possess is a gift from God. In the first reading God’s great mercy on the repeatedly sinful people can only be gift, as He allows everything to be taken away until they realize what...
March 4, 2018 Third Sunday of Lent Homily
Many chapters of the Book of Exodus concern the preparations for setting up the Tent of Meeting which the Hebrews carried around with them and set up each time they made camp in the desert. Inside this Tent, in the most holy and inner part of it called the Tabernacle,...
February 25, 2018 Second Sunday of Lent Homily
In the reading from the book of Genesis that we just heard the author tell us that God put Abraham to a test. To be honest with you, I have a problem about that. My question is why would God need to test Abraham? Moreover, why would God need to...
February 18, 2018 First Sunday of Lent Homily
The first command of Jesus’ public ministry is not forgive, serve, or even love – it is: Repent. Of all the words he could have chosen it was this word, this challenge, this command which he spoke – Repent! Without preamble it refers us to the reality of sin and...
February 11, 2018 Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Homily
Both the first reading of today taken from the Book of Leviticus and the Gospel, speak about leprosy. I have often wondered why this particular sickness is mentioned. I am sure that people suffered from different types of ailments, yet leprosy seems to have had such an impact in the...