HOMILIES
Pilgrims in Nazareth, Israel, 2016
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Are you content with your life? If you are truly content, be very grateful for all that God has done for you already. If you are not then perhaps today’s first reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah could help you learn the secret of being content in any situation. Read more »
Friends, in Elijah’s story we may just see a little of ourselves in our reaction to what happens around us and, when we are in our need for God’s protection and hope. Despite our devotion and deep faith in the Lord, like the prophet Elijah, we all could feel frustrated, discouraged, disappointed, upset, hurt, scared, isolated, alone and a bit hopeless at times. Read more »
God allows all of us to experience disobedience so that He could show mercy and grace to everyone and display His ultimate glory. God's grace is unending. While our sins are many, God's mercy is more. We all can see the great reach of the mercy of God among both Jews and Gentiles. Read more »
To know God, we must let go of our stubbornness, self-sufficiency, and pride - especially intellectual pride. The prophet Isaiah states that God's thoughts are "not your thoughts". He explains that just as the heavens are higher than the earth, God's thoughts and ways are much higher than human thoughts and ways. Read more »
Peter acted as a tempter, a deceiver or an enemy of God’s purpose. He tried to tempt Jesus to deviate from His divinely ordained mission of attaining glory through the way of the cross. Read more »