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Sermon for the 6th Sunday in Eastertide – Cycle C Homily
I am going away, and shall return Have you ever felt that Jesus was absent in your life? Have you ever felt that God was far away? Sometime back I was talking to a young friend of mine about this...
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Sermon for the Feast of the Ascension – Cycle C Homily
Eyes Fixed on Heaven and Feet Firm on the Earth The Feast of the Ascension – Cycle C Luke tells us in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 1:3) that Jesus was seen in his risen form for forty days. After...
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Pastoral Psychology for Africa: A Guide to Practice (2019)
Selvam, S.G. (2019). Pastoral psychology for Africa: A guide for practice. Nairobi: Paulines Africa. In pastoral practice, good will is not good enough. We also need a scientific approach. Psychology...
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Sermon for Pentecost Sunday – Year A, B, C: Receive the Holy Spirit
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 difficult for me to answer. I am sure,...
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Sermon for the Feast of the Holy Trinity – Cycle C Homily
Feast of the Holy Trinity – Year C Three Persons in One: The God of relationship Social scientists these days are pointing out the increase of spirituality in the contemporary world, a spirituality...
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Sermon for 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle C Homily
Who do you say I am? Who am I? This is the question that we all start asking consciously right from the age of reason. But it has its beginnings perhaps even earlier, as infants when we are weaned and...
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Feast of the Precious Body and Blood of Jesus
Eucharist: Mystery of Incarnation Enacted Why did Jesus use bread and wine – mere objects of food – to institute the Eucharist? I offer two possible reflections on this mystery. The enactment of the...
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Sermon for 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Cycle C Homily
Start off now, I am sending you out… 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Lk 10:1-12, 17-20) A few years ago, a priest wrote a short reflection in the Diocesan Newsletter of the Archdiocese of...
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Sermon for 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle C Homily
Moved with pity… he went up and bandaged his wounds 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Lk 10:25-37) After the World Youth Day (WYD) in Cologne in the year 2005, I was at the Frankfurt airport...
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Sermon for 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle C Homily
Mary sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Lk 10:38-42) One of the realities that we notice in urban life today, across the globe, is speed. Speed....
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Sermon for 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle C Homily
Ask, Seek, Knock 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Lk 11:1-13) Let me begin with a story from Tony de Mello – shortened here: The village priest was a holy man so each time the people were in trouble...
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Sermon for 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle C Homily
Seek the Things that are in Heaven 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Lk 12:13-21) The story that I used in my sermon last week, I was told, was very appropriate. So, again I begin with a story from Tony...
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Sermon for 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle C Homily
Spiritual Capital: Treasures in Heaven 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Lk 12:32-48) During the course of the past week, I happened to chance upon a former student of mine, thanks to the Facebook....
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Sermon for 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle C Homily
Disturb us, Lord 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Lk 12:49-53) When I read the gospel reading of today, a phrase kept coming back to me very spontaneously. It was the first line of a prayer that I had...
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Sermon for 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle C Homily
The Narrow Door 21th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Lk13:22-30) When you were in school, did you prefer easy-going teachers to demanding ones? I have been in formal education for 24 years (more than half...
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Sermon for 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle C Homily
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Psychology of the Virtue of Humility One of the areas of my academic specialisation is positive psychology. It is a branch of psychology that focuses on wellbeing and...
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Sermon for 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Homily
Remember, you are following a martyr! 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Lk 14:25-33) Our world today has too many celebrities and very few heroes. Our contemporary culture focuses so much on celebrities....
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Sermon for 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Homily
The Lost Son 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Lk 15:1-3, 11-32) Today is one of those days when I feel a homily might steal the gospel reading of its depth. The parable that we heard read is a...
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Sermon for 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C Homily
Use money to win you friends 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Lk 16:1-16) A clear message in the gospels: Renunciation The gospel of this Sunday took a lot of effort to prepare a sermon on. For one,...
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Spiritueller Reichtum: Schätze im Himmel
Gedanken zu den Lesungen des 19. Sonntags im Jahreskreis Weish 18, 6-9; Hebr 11, 1-2.8-19; Lk 12, 32-48 Während der letzten Woche stieß ich durch Zufall bei Facebook auf einen meiner früheren...
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