Category Archives: Weekday Homily

Ephesians 4:7-16; Psalm 122; Luke 13:1-9   Paul tells us that we all have our various roles in the Body of Christ. Each person’s role is different but ultimately each is for the spreading of the Good News. Therefore, we must do all we can to fulfil that role deligently. We easily neatpick people’s weak […]

EPHESIANS 4:1-6; PSALM 23; LUKE 12:54-59 In the first reading Paul says we all form the Body of Christ and so he invites us to build up this body through selflessness, charity patience and faith in God. On the other hand, Jesus said to the Pharisees in the Gospel “You hypocrites! You know how to […]

  Ephesians 3:14-21; Psalm 33; Luke 12:49-53 Jesus says in today’s gospel reading that he has come to cast fire upon the earth and would that it was already kindled. Again, he said he has not come to bring peace but division. By popular consensus, this is unlike Jesus. From the Scripture Jesus is a […]

Ephesians 3:2-12; Psalm – Isaiah 12; Luke 12:39-48 The grace of God is meant for all peoples – be they Jew, Gentile or pagan. Grace is an unmerited favour, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature […]

Ephesians 2:12-22; Psalm 85; Luke 12:35-38 In the Gospel, Jesus speaks of his coming as a time of joy and celebration, not of fear and trembling. The Church affirms this joyful expectation in the second part of the Lord’s Prayer during the Eucharistic celebration when the priest says “…As we await the blessed hope and […]

EPHESIANS 2:1-10; PSALM 100; LUKE 12:13-21 Today’s gospel reading presents us with “The Parable of the Rich Fool”. This title sounds funny, how can one be rich and at the same time a fool. Anyway in business parlance the man was wise enough to build bigger storage. After all, his harvest was rich. But how […]

EPHESIANS 1:15-23; PSALM 8; LUKE 12:8-12 The Spirit currently convicts the unsaved world of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8). To resist that conviction and willfully remain unrepentant is to “blaspheme” the Spirit. Jesus says “whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.” To blaspheme is to speak with disrespect about God. Blasphemy is […]

Ephesians 1:11-14; Psalm 33; Luke 12:1-7 Paul tells us in the first reading that we have been stamped with the seal of the Holy Spirit. The seal is placed as a proprietary mark on something. By the gift of the Holy Spirit at Baptism, God marks us out as his own property. Precisely because of […]

Ephesians 1:1-10; Psalm 98; Luke 11:47-54 In the first reading, Paul says that God’s plan since the foundation of the world is for all things to be united under Christ. This union implies redemption and salvation. In the Gospel, Jesus rebuked the officials for their hypocrisy because it prevents the people from reaching closer union […]

Galatians 5:18-25; Psalm 1; Luke 11:42-46 Paul tells us today that “those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions.” Those who belong to Christ are those who have been baptized and called to give expressions to the fruits of the Spirit. This is how we can build up the body […]