Sunday Homilies From St. John The Baptist

Simon Peter's evolution into a marytred disciple is indicative of our journey of faith to faithful discipleship.

"Why do you seek the living one among the dead?" A new Christian logic that indicates that the believers of Jesus Christ think differently than the non-believers.

Jesus reveals that discipleship also means to share the Gospel with all. We preach Christ and him Crucified as St. Paul reminds us.

At the Last Supper Jesus gives to his Church two great gifts of love, the priesthood and the Eucharist.

The liturgy of Palm Sunday prescribes a procession which is symbolic of our pilgrim journey to God. We are lead by the Lord Jesus and we as his followers, to his Cross, the key to our eternal home.

The woman caught in adultery is a victim of imperfect justice. Everytime we point the finger of accusations, we too are practicing this imperfect justice, but God's justice is always tempered with boundless mercy.

The ashes on our foreheads call us to remember God for we have all to often forgotten him.

The Parable of the Prodigal Son presents the personification of the two major temptations against the spritiual life in the two sons, and a model for true parenthood in the person of the father.

God prepares Moses for his mission, through careful discipline in the desert and the encounter with him in the burning bush

God encounters us on the mountain top and we are radically transfigured for the work of our Christian mission. We enter deeply into that encounter in the Mass.

Jesus responded to Satan, "Man does not live by bread alone but by every Word that comes from the mouth of God." Do we prioritize our time, energy, efforts and resources to our relationship with God above our necessities and our wants?

The miraculous catch of fish in today's Gospel is a result of the challenge issued by the Lord to Simon Peter, "put out into the deep" (Duc in altum). Such is the challenge we are given as we enter into the Lenten Season this week, to go into deeper waters of our faith.

St. Paul's discourse on love is the antidote he perscribes to the Corthians suffering from pride and selfishness. It is the ointment we Christians ought to apply to the pains in our relationships.

The Lord is anointed to be a revealer a bringer of a message. So to we who were anointed, baptized Christians, are called to bring the good news to the poor, proclaim liberty to captives, and sight to the blind.

The Wedding Feast at Cana is symbolic of the greater picture of the Wedding Feast of the Lamb, the Eucharistic Sacrifice of Jesus.

At our baptism we are united to Christ and incorporated into his Church. The Church is necessary for us to preserve the truths of faith and know the pathway to the Lord. Today, we recommit ourselves during the Year of Faith to renew our faith in Jesus Christ and His Holy Church. [Year of Faith Day of Renewal of Baptismal Promises]

The journey, the star, and the gifts are signs of the journey of faith that God guides us to, our response ought to be in a spirit of generous gratitude.

The doctrine of the "Theotokos", Mary Mother of God, teaches us how God wishes to relate to us, by the means of family.

The Holy Family of Nazareth models for us the highest of the virtues, the virtue of religion, the worship given to God.