HOMILIES
Travelling worshippers & Father Valan in Thessaloniki, Greece
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We shall pray that all the dead may be purified in purgatory and brought to the mountain of hope, where they will join the promised heavenly feast with the angels, saints, and all the righteous in God's eternal presence, and where also we want to go one day. Read more »
Since Saint John Lateran Basilica was one of the first churches established by the Roman Emperor Constantine, it is considered as the "mother and head of all churches", the cathedral church of the diocese of Rome and the official ecclesiastical seat of the pope as the bishop of Rome. Read more »
Just like the Jews of Jesus’ time, often we too are perhaps so overly concerned with the externals that we neglect the internals of our life. We work so hard to have a great and beautiful house with rich furniture, costly paintings, and all the elegance but fail to adorn our life with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience which make a happy home. Read more »
We learn from today’s Gospel narrative that our entry into Jesus’ promised Paradise depends solely upon our true repentance. However, many Biblical references also suggest that it depends on how we live our lives here on earth: obviously, we don’t have to wait until we die to experience Paradise or Heaven. We can get a taste of Paradise now on earth even in the midst of whatever circumstances life on earth throws at us but only if we live our lives according to Jesus’ teachings. Read more »
Isaiah's message was a great comfort to the Israelites as they constantly faced threats of invasion and subjugation by their foreign enemies, wavered between godly and ungodly living, and experienced isolation, oppression, humiliation, anxiety, fear, bitterness, anger, helplessness, and apparent abandonment by God. Read more »