7 Minute Homily for Fourth Sunday of Easter

Acts 2:14a, 36-411Peter 2:20b-25 John 10:1-10 "I have come that they may have life and have it abundantly." Jn 10:10“This is what I am asking you,” he said with emphasis, looking up from his prepared text, “be shepherds with the smell of sheep,” let...

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Reflection for Friday, 28 April 2023

 He is the Son of God First Reading: Acts 9:1-20 Gospel: Jn 6:52-59 'For l myself too, when l was delighting in the doctrine of Plato, and heard the Christians slandered, and saw them fearless of death, and of all others things which are counted fearful, perceived that it was impossible that they could be living in wickedness and pleasure.'...

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7 Minutes homily for Third Sunday of Easter 2023

 “STAY WITH US, LORD, FOR IT IS ALMOST EVENING” (LK 24:29) This was the invitation that the two disciples journeying to Emmaus on the evening of the day of the resurrection addressed to the Wayfarer who had accompanied them on their journey. Interestingly, the risen Lord...

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Reflection for Monday, April 17,2023

First Reading: Acts 4:23-31 Gospel: John 3:1-8 Today the Church invites us, as baptised people, to reflect on our life in the Spirit. It presents to us the testimony of Peter and John, who were arrested for healing a cripple (Acts 3:6) and for being witnesses of Jesus’ resurrection. In their prayer (Acts 4:26) they reveal a prophecy  of...

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7 Minute Homily for Second Sunday of Easter- Year A

 Welcome to the second Sunday of Easter! The readings of today invite us to reflect about peace. Jimi Hendrix once said that, when the power of love overcomes the lover of power, the world will know peace. Everyone wants peace but only a few people work for peace but instead,...

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Reflection for Wednesday, April 12,2023

 Gospel: Lk 24:13-35The most beautiful title for the liturgy of word today could be “Joy in Recognition”. Those who had followed Jesus while he exercised his ministry had great hope and dream. With crucifixion all the hope and dream were shattered. They were devastated and disappointed. The only alternative was to go back to their former...

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Reflection for Tuesday, 11 April 2023

 First Reading: ACTS 2:36-41Gospel:  Jn 20:11-18 “The Joyous Message of the Risen Lord: ‘I have seen the Lord’, (Jn 20:18)”     In a war, when the two groups of army are fighting and one of the leaders of these groups die, the rest of the army which lost the battle, they surrender themselves. Because their leader,...

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Reflection for Monday, 10 April 2023

 Giving witness of our faithFirst Reading: Acts 2:14,22-33                                                                 Response: ...

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7 Minute Homily for Easter Sunday

1st Reading: Acts10:34,37-43 2nd Reading: Col 3:1-4Gospel:  Mt 28:1-10This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it (Ps 118:24).  We have been journeying with Jesus for forty days. Now we have a reason to celebrate this day with conviction....

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Reflection for Wednesday, April 5, 2023

First Reading: Is: 50:4-9 Gospel:  Mt: 26:14-25From the Medieval period, the Wednesday of the Holy week, just before the Tridium is named a Spy Wednesday. This is because it is a day on which Judas betrayed Jesus Christ to the Sanhedrin. He did this act by forfeiting his...

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Reflection for Monday, 3 April 2023

 Humility is the perfect quietness of the heartThere is a proverb which says, “Humility is the perfect quietness of the heart”. It implies to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, and to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest. Our Father Founder St. Antony Mary Claret also used to say, “Humility, obedience, meekness,...

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PALM SUNDAY MEMORIES

Palm Sunday commemorates Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem and signals the start of the Holy week. A flashback of the Plam Sunday celebration in our community in 2020.Blessing of the palms.Joy of Palm Sunday!...

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7 Minute Homily for PALM SUNDAY

 First Reading: Isaiah 50:4-7Second Reading: Philippians 2:6-11 Gospel: Matthew 26:14-27:66No pain, No palm, No thorns, No throne, No gall, No Glory, No cross, No crown -William Pen It is a great day today in our Mother Church as we mark the day of the triumphal...

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