Haters

Do you sometimes get this feeling that there are people watching your every move, trying to find fault, and then broadcasting it to other people? In other words, there are people who would just want to pull you down. Even Jesus was not exempted. His every move was being watched; his every word was being…

Yes

Luke 1:26-38 When a couple is about to get married, one of the things that we, as priests, look into is the reason for the marriage. We try to find out if both parties are entering into the marriage not out of force, not out of fear, or not coerced, or for any other reason;…

Sickness

When one is chronically sick, the instinct to survive goes on overdrive: he seeks the opinion of other doctors; he listens to the advice of other people; he does research on the internet; he even goes to faith healers, not aware that the spirit doing the healing is not from God. In the Gospel, there…

The True Treasure

Matthew 13:44-46 There is this story of a woman who was offered a business proposal – a huge, huge, return on the investment. The group were gold hunters and they informed the woman that the gold is just a few meters away at the mining site. She eventually gave a huge amount of money.  After…

A Prayer for Today

“When you are DOWN to nothing …God is UP to something” Father, in the Name of Jesus, bless me even while I’m reading this prayer and bless the one that sent this to me in a special way. Open supernatural doors in our lives today. Save and set free! Give us a double portion of your…

Patience: A Wedding Homily

There is a saying that “This is the best of times, the worst of times.” If you look at our generation, we can say that because of Technology, these are the best of times: Once upon a time, if one needed information, the person would have to go to different libraries and research. Now just…

How to Deal with Grief

Matthew 9: 14 -15 The Gospel often speaks about Joy with God’s presence and Grief in his absence. But we, however, know that God is always with us. His promise is, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Then again, we must realize that life is like the different weather seasons. Sometimes it is…

God’s Faithfulness

Luke 13: 31-35 One city that is full of history is Jerusalem in Israel. For the Christians, it is the most holy city. For the Jews, it is also the most holy city. For the Muslims, it the 3rd most holy city. But despite the city being very holy for the 3 most popular religions…

Power of Words

Matthew 8: 5-13 Pearl Strachan Hurd once said: “Handle words carefully for words have more power than atom bombs.” How many of us are even affected by words of strangers? We are in the marketplace, someone curses us. We curse back and our day is affected. On the other hand, someone compliments us, we feel…

Teach Us How To Pray

Matthew 6: 7-15 If there is one thing that the people close to Jesus noticed was that He always prayed. Many instances, he would separate himself to pray; before performing a miracle, certainly He would pray; when he drove out demons, He prayed. Knowing how powerful prayer is, he taught his disciples how to pray….