Lent
Ash Wednesday
Message:
Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. (Taken from “Ash Wednesday” of Roman Missal, Third Edition)
Ordinary Time
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Message:
So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Mt 5:48)
Ordinary Time
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Message:
Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. (Mt 5:20)
Ordinary Time
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Message:
You are the salt of the earth . . . [and] light of the world. (Mt 5:13-14)
Ordinary Time
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Message:
Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God. (Mt 5:8)
Ordinary Time
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Message:
The people who sit in darkness have seen a great light. (Mt 4:16)
Ordinary Time
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Message:
Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world (Jn 1:29)
Christmas
Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord
Message:
On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother. They prostrated themselves and did him homage. (Mt 2:11)
Christmas
Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God
Message:
They went in haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger (Lk 2:16)
Christmas
The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) Mass During the Night
Message:
She . . . laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn (Lk 2:6-7)
Advent
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Message:
Emmanuel,” which means “God is with us (Mt 1:23)
Advent
Third Sunday of Advent
Message:
Make your hearts firm, because the coming of the Lord is at hand (Jas 5:8)
Advent
Second Sunday of Advent
Message:
Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths (Mt 3:3)
Advent
First Sunday of Advent
Message:
. . . at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come. (Mt. 24: 44)
First Mass/Dedication
Homily on Second Anniversary of the Dedication of the Church
Message:
Stop Making my Father’s House a Marketplace (Jn 2:16)
Advent
Homily on the 1st Sunday of Advent
Message:
“Be Vigilant at all Time” (Lk 21:36)
First Mass/Dedication
Homily on the First Anniversary of the Dedication of the Parochial Church
Message:
The hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth (Jn 4:23)
First Mass/Dedication
Homily for the Mass of Thanksgiving, the First Eucharist after the Dedication Mass
Message:
It is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. (Rm13:11)
First Mass/Dedication
Homily for the First Mass at Blessed John Paul II Parish
Message:
Ask the Master to Send out Laborers