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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 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 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily
12th Sunday – Cycle A Do not be Afraid! (Mt 10:26-33) This is the 2nd Sunday after the celebrations of the Easter festivals and the follow on. This being Year A in liturgy, we continue with the Gospel...
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Sermon for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily
13th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Discipleship (Mt 10: 37-42) We continue to listen to the “Missionary Instructions” of Jesus (Mt 10) addressed to his apostles as he sends them out on their...
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Sermon for 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily: The Yoke!
My yoke is easy and my burden light While talking to young people, it is not rare to hear this sort of expression: “Oh, I cannot engage in premarital relationship, just because I am a Christian.” The...
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Sermon for 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily: The Mustard Seed
Believe in the principle of ‘graduality’! I realise how I have been sucked into the world of “fast-food”! I have become increasingly impatient. When I go for breakfast I want instant coffee. When I...
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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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Feast of Transfiguration
Transfiguration: Experience of God in Jesus Mountains are seen as locations of God-experience in many traditional cultures, and in many of the world religions. It is not by chance then that one of...
View ArticleIPPA Spirituality and Meaning Practitioner Award 2023 to Rev Dr Sahaya G. Selvam
International Association of Positive Psychology (IPPA) Spirituality and Meaning Practitioner Award 2023 Rev. Dr Sahaya G. Selvam’s Contributions to Spirituality, Meaning and Wellbeing in Africa...
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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 Cycle A – 24th Sunday Sermon: Experiencing Forgiveness
The need to experience forgiveness (Mt 18:21-35) 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle A When people (especially the young) ask me, why we Catholics have to go to a priest for confession, and why can’t...
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Sermon for 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A Homily
God’s ways may not be fair, but they are full of love It is not fair: At the Nairobi airport, I was once in the company of a large European family – the parents with seven children of varying ages –...
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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 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 – 28th Sunday Homily: Celebrate Life
C’mon and Celebrate! (Is 25:6-10; Phil 4:12-14,19-20; Mt 22:1-14) Speaking about food and cultures: an African lady, who used to work for an ethnic Indian family in East Africa, once told me: “You...
View ArticleWell-being and religious commitment amongst South African and Kenyan students.
Fadiji, A.W., Khumalo, I., & Selvam, S.G. (2023). The well-being correlates of religious commitment amongst South African and Kenyan students. South African Journal of Psychology....
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Sermon for Cycle A – 29th Sunday Homily
“Give to Ceasar what belongs to Caesar – and to God what belongs to God” Being Good Christians and Honest Citizens In many aspects of his public life Jesus seems to be a rebel. He blatantly disobeys...
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Sermon for Cycle A – 30th Sunday Homily: Loving
30th Sunday of the Year Love! It is said that at the time of Jesus the rabbis could count up to 613 commandments contained in the Law: 365 were prohibitions (don’t do this!) and 248 were prescriptive...
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Sermon for Cycle A – 31st Sunday Homily: Simplicity & Depth
Towards Simplicity and Depth (Mal 1:14-2:2, 8-10; 1The 2:7-9,13; Mt 23:1-12) I had a dream. I insist it was only a dream. White smoke was spewing out of the chimney of the Sistine chapel of...
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Sermon for Cycle A – 32nd Sunday Homily: Lamps Full
Wisdom is keeping the Lamps full 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle A (Wis 6:12-16; 1The 4:13-18; Mt 25:1-13) In October 2011, The Tablet, the Catholic Weekly published from the UK, ran a story...
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