24th SUNDAY OF YEAR B – 2021
Is 50:5-9; Jas 2:14-18; Mk 8:27-35 WHO DO YOU SAY I AM? People easily form opinions about public personalities—such as state Presidents, government ministers, governors, Chancellors of universities, Bishops or […]
Homilies
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23rd SUNDAY, YEAR B – 2021
“EPHPHATHA” – BE OPENED! Isaiah 35:4-7; James 2:1-5; Mark 7:31-37 The first reading of today uses the image of the deaf hearing, the dumb speaking, the blind regaining their sight, […]
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22nd SUNDAY B, 2021
GOD’S LAW COMES FIRST Deut 4:1-2,6-8; Jas 1:17-18,21-22,27; Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21-23 After meditating for five Sundays on the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel, we now go back to the gospel of […]
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21st SUNDAY – B- 2021
THE CHOICES BEFORE US Jos 24:1-2, 15-17, 18; Eph 5:21-32; John 6:60-69 Today’s gospel passage brings the sixth chapter of John’s gospel to a climactic conclusion. Jesus has fed a […]
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20TH SUNDAY B—2021
THE REAL PRESENCE OF JESUS IN EUCHARIST Prov 9:1-6; Eph 5:15-20; John 6:51-58 The eight verses that constitute today’s gospel reading (Jn 6:51-58) represent the climax of the lengthy “Bread […]
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THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY INTO HEAVEN
ALL GENERATIONS WILL CALL ME BLESSED Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; 1Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 Every 15th August, Catholics all over the world join to celebrate the solemnity of the […]
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19TH SUNDAY ‘B’ 2018
JESUS IS THE BREAD FROM HEAVEN 1 Kings 19:4-8; Ephesians 4:30-5:2; and John 6:41-51 Today, the 19th Sunday of the Year B, we take the third of five homilies on […]
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18TH SUNDAY ‘B’ 2021
THE BREAD OF LIFE Ex 16:2-4,12-15; Eph 4:17,20-24; John 6:24-35 Last Sunday, we began five weeks of Gospels from the sixth chapter of John. This long chapter of 69 verses […]
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17th Sunday B – 2021
GOD PROVIDES MORE THAN WE COULD EVER IMAGINE 2Kings 4:42-44; Eph 4:1-6; John 6:1-15 In the first reading and in the Gospel of today, we hear of two instances where […]
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16TH SUNDAY B, 2021
THE COMPASSIONATE JESUS Jer. 23:1-6; Eph 2:13-18; Mk 6:30-34 The gospel text of today presents us to an understanding of the God that Christians worship. Jesus is portrayed as the […]