Recent Homilies from Fada Kizito
Homily for Sunday, December 28, 2025Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph – Year ASirach 3:2–6, 12–14 | Psalm 128 | Colossians 3:12–21 | Matt.2:13-15, 19-23“A Home Where God Can Grow” Friends, in the glow of Christmas still surrounding us, the Church invites us into a home. Not a perfect home—but a
Homily for Christmas Day – December 25, 2025Is. 62:11-12; Ps. 97; Titus 3;4-7; Luke 2:15-20 God Chose to Be With Us Brothers and sisters in Christ, Today the Church dares to proclaim something almost too wonderful to believe: God has chosen to come close. Not as thunder or fire, not as a conquering king, but as a
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Advent, Year A Isaiah 7:10-14; Psalm 24; Rom 1:1-7; Matthew 1:18-24“Do not be afraid to take Mary into your home.” FRIENDS, we stand today at the very edge of Christmas. The waiting for Advent is almost complete, and the Church places before us a quiet, almost hidden figure: Saint Joseph.
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent, Year A Isaiah 35:1-6a, 10; Psalm 146; James 5:7-10; Matthew 11: 2-11,“Joy That Finds Us” Friends!On this Gaudete Sunday—Rejoice Sunday—the readings proclaim a truth our weary world often forgets: God’s joy does not wait for perfect circumstances; it breaks into the desert places of our lives. Isaiah speaks of
December 8, 2025: Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, our MotherGenesis 3:9-15, 20; Psalm 98; Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12; Luke 1:26-38Grace That Starts Before the Wound Brothers and sisters, today the Church celebrates a miracle of prevenient grace—grace that arrives before the wound, light that dawns before the night is fully dark. In Mary’s Immaculate Conception,
Second Sunday of Advent, Year AIsaiah 11:1-10; Psalm 72; Romans 15:4-9; Matthew 3:1-12When God Grows in Our Ruins Friends, imagine a field of tree stumps after a forest has been cut down: silent, lifeless, finished. That is how Israel felt—cut down by exile, failure, and sin. Into that landscape Isaiah speaks: “A shoot shall sprout from