Category: Sunday Homlies
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GIFTED
May 28, 2023 – Pentecost Sunday Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/052823-Day.cfm) We do know how it feels to receive a gift from someone special. Receiving a simple token of gift and/or few words of call or posts from someone special could really make our day and even help us get through the day. Because…
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LDR – Long-Distance Relationships
May 21, 2023 – Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/052123-Ascension.cfm) For those who are into (LDR) Long-Distance relationships, especially with migrants who have lived and worked abroad away from our families and loved ones, separation and homesickness have been a constant struggle in their daily lives. Experiences of…
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Grow Up In Love
May 14, 2023 – Sixth Sunday of Easter Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/051423.cfm) “They said if you love someone, you set them free. If they come back again, till the end, you are meant to be.” Does it ring a bell? Sounds familiar? That is a line from a popular song sung by Barbara…
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Bahala Na
May 7, 2023 – Fifth Sunday of Easter Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/050723.cfm) For us, Easter people to fully appreciate the meaning and benefit from the fruits of the mystery of the Lord’s resurrection, we must reflect and try to discover how the Lord has resurrected and can be resurrected in our daily ordinary…
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THE GATE OF THE SHEEP
April 30, 2023 – Fourth Sunday of Easter Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/043023.cfm) Parents are the first shepherds of children at home. As shepherds, they take care of their children, and make sure that home is welcoming and nurturing. Parents secure that the basic needs of human intimacy and love, of physical, mental and…
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GOD-Struck
April 30, 2023 – Fourth Sunday of Easter Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/043023.cfm) During the time of the desert monks, around 450 AD, a young monk went to an old and holy monk and asked him, “Father, how is it that so many today leave the monastery? The old monk answered him, “When a…
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Via Magnets
April 23, 2023 – Third Sunday of Easter Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/042323.cfm) Easter Season proclaims: “The Lord has risen. Let us rejoice and be glad. Alleluia”. But how do we recognize the risen Lord in our life now? In a class inside the seminary, their professor asked the seminarians to discuss how do…
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Shake Well Before Using
April 9, 2023 – Easter Sunday Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040923.cfm) What is the purpose of life? What is life all about? Why do we have to suffer through life? How can we move on with life? Where is God in all these? During pandemic times & even now in the New Normal period,…
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A Defiant Hope
April 9, 2023 – The Resurrection of the Lord Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040923.cfm) In the popular Netflix Series, The Sandman, an episode portrays how the Lord of Endless Dreams (Morpheus) went to Hell to retrieve his tools. In Hell, Morpheus faced Lucifer in the duel through the “Oldest Game” where each one has…
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Remembering, Reconnecting, Responding
April 2, 2023 – Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040223.cfm) On this Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, we blessed our palms to remind us of Jesus’ triumphant entry in Jerusalem, only to be handed over to death. He was arrested, tortured, abused and humiliated, carried his own cross…
A DOSE OF GOD TODAY 