Category Archives: Weekday Homily

True Fasting Isaiah 58:1-9; Psalm 51; Matthew 9:14-15 In today’s fasting was the subject of debate between the disciples of John and Jesus. John disciples asked; “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often but your disciples do not fast?” Is fasting a competition? However, in response Jesus said to them “The wedding guests cannot […]

DEUTERONOMY 30:15-20; PSALM 1; LUKE 9:22-25 CHOOSE ETERNAL LIFE See, “I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.” Moses asked the people to make a choice between life and death. If they obey God’s commandments they will live; but if they don’t they will certainly be destroyed. Disobedience results in destruction but […]

ABSTINENCE: MEAT OR SIN Joel 2:12-18; Psalm 50; 2Corinthians 5:20-6:2; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Repentance, fasting, and preparation are all mentioned in today’s readings. Prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are required of us if we are to be saved and experience the glory of the resurrection. According to the gospel, we are instructed to carry out our […]

SERVE THE LORD  Ecclesiasticus 2:1-11; Psalm 36; Mark 9:30-37 According to the first reading, if we want to serve the Lord, we must be prepared for hardship because doing so is not always accepted by society. In the old testament, fervent worshipers were hated. The society is not less hostile in our days. Serving God […]

PRAYERFUL PREPARATION Mark 9:14-29 speaks of the cure of the epileptic demoniac. Jesus disciples were not able to cure him the Lord cured him. “His disciples asked him privately. ‘Why could we not cast it out?’ He said to them this kind can come out only through fasting and prayer.” The disciples were inefficient because […]

Divine Authority Hebrews 2:5-12; Psalm 8; Mark 1:21-28   In Capernaum, the epicenter of Galilee’s dominant system, on the Sabbath day, Jesus begins his teaching ministry in the synagogue. The gospel states that “He taught them as one who had authority”.  Authority is the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. […]

𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑 “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us” (1John 5:14). This verse reminds us that the promise of a prayer being answered depends on the words “according to His will.” From an infinite viewpoint, God is aware of what […]

OVERCOMERS “Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God”. (1 John 5:5). This verse emphasizes believer’s ability to overcome the world. If we must overcome the world then in believing we equally have to trust and have total confidence in the Son of God. […]

ON LOVE AND HATRED “This is the message as you heard it from the beginning: that we are to love one another; not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One and cut his brother’s throat; cut his brother’s throat simply for this reason, that his own life was evil and his brother […]

COME AND SEE John 1:35-42 narrates the call of the first disciples of Jesus Christ. The reading says they followed Jesus from the very moment John pointed out the Lamb of God to them. We too must follow Jesus from the very moment of encounter. We must make sincere effort to break the walls limitations […]