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Sermon for 1st Sunday in Advent – Year A Homily
1st Sunday in Advent The Son of Man is Coming (Mt 24:44) One of the advent hymns that I like most is: We long to see thee so! To see Thee newly-born. We long for Christmas morn. The sands of time...
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Sermon for 2nd Sunday in Advent – Year A Homily
“As they were baptised they confessed their sins” 2nd Sunday of Advent – Year A A priest went to hear confessions of boys in a boarding school. As the priest went to this place every Saturday to hear...
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Sermon for 3rd Sunday in Advent – Year A Homily
Spirituality of Waiting 3rd Sunday in Advent – Cycle A While still in London, one day, I had to travel across the city on a weekday during the morning rush hour to preside at a Eucharistic...
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Sermon for 4th Sunday in Advent – Year A Homily
“You must name him Jesus” (Mt 1:21) 4th Sunday of Advent – Year A We are all aware of the annunciation of angel Gabriel to Mary. When we think of annunciation, we only think of the annunciation to...
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Sermon for Christmas – Homily Year A, B, C.
And the Word became flesh (Jn 1:14) Christmas – Liturgy of the Day The language of God A young man was intrigued by this question: what language does God speak? He asked people around, what is the...
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Sermon for 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily
2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A The Life Journey of John the Baptist (Jn 1:29-34) In the liturgical calendar, we are back to the ordinary time. But in our gospel reading there is an attempt to...
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Sermon for 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A “At once, leaving the boat and their father, they followed him” (Mt 4:12-23) The gospel text of today from Matthew narrates to us the beginning of the public...
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Book Launch – 17th February 2023 – 2.15pm
Habits make us. Habits also break us. This book is about habits. It is a guide to getting rid of habits that break you and building habits that make you. Habits that build you up and others around you...
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Research on Secularisation Among Young Adults
African scholars have claimed that African peoples are “notoriously religious”. Is this still the case? Empirical literature on the subject is meagre. Therefore, the objective of this study was to...
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Sermon for 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Blessed are you… In October 2000, I had the privilege of visiting the home village of the late Julius Nyerere, the father of the nation of Tanzania. We were...
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Sermon for 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A You are the salt of the earth… and light of the World (Mt 5:13-14) The sentences that we hear in the gospel reading of today immediately follow the Beatitudes. It...
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Sermon for 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily
Your righteousness must go deeper (Mt 5:20) The powerful invitation of the Sermon on the Mount, that we continue to listen to in the gospel reading of today, is to embrace the previous revelation of...
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Sermon for 5th Sunday in Lent – Year A Homily
Lazarus, Come Out! Today, the 5th Sunday in Lent, we conclude the trilogy of instructions taken from the Gospel of John for Catechumens. The gospel readings of the previous two Sundays focused on...
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Easter Homily: an Event or an Experience
The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia! Alleluia! ‘Alleluia’ is one expression that we hear so often during Easter. And when we hear a Catholic shouting out ‘Alleluia’ we think, they have become a...
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Sermon for 2nd Sunday of Easter – Homily
From a Communitarian faith to a Personal Experience of Jesus Today, as we conclude the octave of Easter – eight day celebration of this great feast – the Gospel passage of today concludes the series of...
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Sermon for the 3rd Sunday of Easter – Cycle A Homily
The Eucharist at Emmaus (Lk 24:13-35) As is the case often, there are several possible reflections on the gospel text of today. I would like to suggest that Lk 24:13-35 bears resemblance to the...
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Sermon for 4th Sunday of Easter – Year A Homily
Jesus, the Shepherd, is the Gate to Abundant Life (Jn 10:1-10) Every year, the 4th Sunday of Easter is celebrated as the Good Shepherd Sunday and Vocations Sunday. Each year, for the gospel reading,...
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Sermon for 5th Sunday of Easter – Year A Homily
5th Sunday of Easter – Year A Service at Table and Service of the Word (Acts 6:1-7) In the first reading of today we have an interesting story of conflict resolution in the early church. Earlier in...
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The Role of University President in Institutionalisation of Service Learning
The Role of University President in Institutionalisation of Service Learning in Higher Education Citation: Selvam, S.G. (2023). The Role of University President in Institutionalisation of Service...
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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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