When Prayer Becomes Surrender

Homily for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Sirach 35:12-14; Psalm 34; 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18; Luke 18:9-14 When Prayer Becomes Surrender Dear friends, Authentic prayer is not a show before others but an opening before God. The Pharisee performs; the tax collector prays. We are made right with God not by comparison or self-righteousness,

October 23, 2025
When Prayer Becomes Surrender

Keep Praying, Keep Hoping, Keep Trusting

Homily for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year CExodus 17:8–13; Psalm 121; 2 Timothy 3:14–4:2; Luke 18:1–8 Keep Praying, Keep Hoping, Keep Trusting Dear friends, Today’s Gospel tells us the story of a widow—a woman with no power, no voice, no advocate—pleading for justice from a judge who neither fears God nor respects people. Yet this

October 17, 2025
Keep Praying, Keep Hoping, Keep Trusting

Gratitude: the faith that heals

Homily for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C 2 Kings 5:14–17; 2 Timothy 2:8–13; Luke 17:11–19 “Gratitude: The Faith That Heals” Friends,Today’s readings invite us into the sacred posture of gratitude — a faith-filled response that transforms healing into wholeness and blessing into relationships. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus heals ten lepers—ten

October 9, 2025
Gratitude: the faith that heals

Faith that Transforms Our Lives

EHomily for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year CHabakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4; Psalm 95; 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14; Luke 17:5-10Faith that Transforms Our Lives Friends, The readings this Sunday draw us into the mystery of faith—what it is, how it sustains us, and how it calls us to live as servants of the Lord. In the first reading,

October 4, 2025
Faith that Transforms Our Lives

Faithful Stewardship in an Unfaithful World

Homily for the 25th Sunday, Year C: September 21, 2025Amos 8:4-7; Ps. 113; 1Tim 2: 1-8; Luke 16: 1-13Faithful Stewardship in an Unfaithful World Friends, Today’s Gospel from Luke presents us with one of Jesus’ most puzzling parables: the story of the dishonest steward. At first glance, it seems shocking — the steward cheats his master, and

September 18, 2025
Faithful Stewardship in an Unfaithful World

“The Cross: From Sign of Shame to Throne of Glory.”

Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy CrossNumbers 21:4b-9; Psalm 78; Philippians 2:6-11; John 3:13-17“The Cross: From Sign of Shame to Throne of Glory.” Today, the Church invites us to do something that seems almost absurd to the world: to exalt the Cross. Imagine it—glorifying an instrument of torture, a symbol of humiliation, a device for

September 11, 2025
“The Cross: From Sign of Shame to Throne of Glory.”