Homilies

Homily for the 17th Sunday in Ordinal Time, July 25, 2021

Listen again to this statement taken from today’s responsorial psalm: “The eyes of all look hopefully to you, and you give them their food in due season; you open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.” And this one too: “The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs.” (Psalm 145) Do we believe them? Do we believe that God opens His hand and satisfies the desire of every living creature? Perhaps, in total honesty we must admit that we believe this in theory, up here with our minds, and only for as long as we or one close to us are not in

Homilies

Homily for the 16th Sunday in Ordinal Time, July 18th, 2021

Chances are that we, ordinary people, can still list our successes, because there are limited in number. But even in their limited number they can give us some reassurance that the future will be better. Actually, to be more precise: ordinary people without faith can be reassured that their future will be better, based on their past successes. We, believers, should be certain that our future will be better on this earth as a foretaste of an endless future of glory in heaven. To strengthen such certainty, today, again, we gather, as we do every weekend,