This homily is based on Luke 1:26-38 for the Fourth Sunday of Advent.
When the angel Gabriel appeared to her and told her about God’s invitation, Mary asked one question: “How can this be?”
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GUESSING GAME
This homily, based on John 1:6-28, is for the Third Sunday of Advent.
What struck me about today’s Gospel passage is all the guessing game that seems to be going on.
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CROOKED LIVES
This homily is based on Mark 1:1-8 for the Second Sunday of Advent.
A friend of mine wasn’t raving about the film “Smaller and Smaller Circles.” “It’s supposed to be a psychological thriller,” he explained, “but I didn’t even recognize the climax, and it was over!”
This homily , based on Mark 13:33-37, has been written for the First Sunday of Advent, as well as the Feast of St. Francis Xavier (03 December 2017).
Yesterday I found myself wandering through a familiar street in a foreign country. The familiarity was comforting, but it was also wrapped in some sort of nostalgia. You see, I was sauntering through one of the alleys of Taipei’s famous Zhongxiao Dunhua shopping area, and the place felt quite familiar because I had spent two years here, nearly thirty years ago, as a Jesuit scholastic training in media production.
This homily was delivered on the Solemnity of Christ the King.
Back in 2004, I visited the Jesuit school for the disabled in Cambodia. From the moment I stepped out of the airport in Phnom Penh, I noticed that every major road and every other street corner displayed the picture of one man. My companions informed me that a week before, Cambodia had just crowned a new king, Sihamoni, to succeed his father. To celebrate the occasion and to show their acceptance of the new king, all of Cambodia put up his pictures everywhere, from medium-sized photographs to gigantic billboards. As a result, no tourist—and certainly no Cambodian—had any excuse to claim that he does not recognize the new king.