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Sermon for Cycle A – 28th Sunday Homily: Celebrate Life
C’mon and Celebrate! (Is 25:6-10; Phil 4:12-14,19-20; Mt 22:1-14) In most cultures a meal is an occasion for coming together. It is communitarian. It is a fellowship. That is why, even people...
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Sermon for Cycle A – 27th Sunday Homily: Avoiding Spiritual Redundancy
Are you protected against Spiritual Redundancy? 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle A (Isaiah 5: 1-7; Psalm 79; Philippians 4: 6-9; Matthew 21: 33-43) Down-sizing, Redundancy, and laying off are...
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Sermon for Cycle A – 26th Sunday Homily: First Impression
First Impression is not good enough in the Kingdom of God In your social interactions, have you come across individuals who make a very good first impression on you? After a few minutes of...
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Sermon for 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily
The Christian in Dialogue (Mt 18:15-20) Faced with an enemy or an unjust aggressor, an animal has basically three possible responses (3 F’s): Flight, Fight and Freeze. Faced with an unpleasant...
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Sermon for Cycle A – 21st Sunday Homily: Who is Jesus?
But you, who do you say I am? (Mt 16:13-20) 21 Sunday – Year A In my mother tongue, Tamil, while speaking about great people, speakers and writers often refer to: “the Buddha, Jesus and Gandhi”. These...
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Sermon for 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily
Jesus insults a Canaanite Woman (Mt 15:21-28) Thanks to our easy means of communication and fast means of travel today, many of us enjoy the privilege of constantly coming in contact with people and...
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Sermon for 19th Sunday: Elijah Encounters God
“After the fire there was a tiny whispering sound.” The gospel text of today – the 19th Sunday in Cycle A – narrates to us how the disciples encounter Jesus walking on the water. The first reading...
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Sermon for 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily
When you are one with Jesus, you do what he does! The gospel narrative of the 18th Sunday in Cycle A is about feeding the five thousand with five loaves and two fish. The story in the gospel reading...
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Sermon for 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily: Loaves & Fish
“And they all ate and were satisfied” (Mt 14:20) One of my academic interests is to examine the psychological impact of Christian contemplative practice on people. A pattern emerges from the formal...
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Sermon for 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily: The Treasure
Often we confuse needs, wants, and likes. ‘Needs’ are those that are necessary to ensure a quality of life. ‘Likes’ are those that we desire to have beyond our needs, because they are nice and...
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Sermon for 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily: The Mustard Seed
Believe in the principle of ‘graduality’! These days, we in the world of “fast-food”! I have become increasingly impatient. When I go for breakfast I want instant coffee. When I have a headache I...
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Sermon for 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily: The Sower
The Amateurish Farmer who does not expect 100% output Jesus is a master storyteller. He uses vivid images drawn from everyday life to reveal deep truths about the Kingdom of God. And he chooses his...
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Sermon for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily
12th Sunday – Cycle A Do not be Afraid! (Mt 10:26-33) One of the explicit characteristics of Matthew is that it was written in and for a Jewish community. Hence to understand that Gospel we need to...
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Jesus, the Model of Compassion
Reflection for 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle A Can you recall an occasion in the recent past when you were moved with compassion for someone or for a group of people. What did you see? How did...
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Sermon for Feast of the Precious Body and Blood of our Lord
Body to be eaten and Blood to be drunk Holy Eucharist as a Sacrificial Meal During the liturgical year there are at least two feasts that invite us to meditate on the mystery of the Eucharist: the...
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Sermon for the Feast of the Holy Trinity – Cycle A Homily
How real is your God? I once had a spiritual director who was fond of asking the question: “What is your God like?” She would then challenge me to go even deeper as she would continue to ask: “What...
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Sermon for the Feast of Pentecost – Cycle A Homily
“Receive the Holy Spirit” (Jn 20:22) In the recent years I have been travelling across continents and living in different cultural contexts. The question, “Where do you come from,” has become so...
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Sermon for the Ascension of the Lord – Year A: I am with you!
“I am with you always” (Mt 28:20) Seeking redress for injustice is a human need: when we perceive that we are unjustly treated we want justice to be restored. There are mainly two ways in which we...
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Sermon for 6th Sunday of Easter – Year A Homily
Lessons from the Ministry of Philip, the Deacon During the Eastertide we hear so much from and about the Acts of the Apostles. The first reading of today focuses on the ministry of Philip, one of...
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Excellence: Doing well or doing good?
Early January 2026, the United States launched a military strike in Venezuela and captured incumbent president Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Later Trump in his inimical style prided to a journalist,...
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