17 November 2024 - 23^rd Sunday “B”

Dan 12:1-3; Heb 10:11...18; Mk 13:24-32

Homily

At the time when the evangelist Mark was composing his Gospel and recounting the words of Jesus that we have just heard, the world was full of conflict, war and oppression. The great powers were waging war against each other, often by proxy, and the oppressors claimed to be acting on a divine mission. The future of entire peoples was sacrificed to the proud ambitions of powers intoxicated by their supremacy. In reality, it was little different from the situation today. Just think of the war in Yemen, which has been going on for years, or what the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip or the people of Ukraine are going through.

11 novembre 2024

Mémoire de saint Martin de Tours 

Lectures

Homélie

Nous célébrons aujourd’hui saint Martin, bien connu pour son geste de charité envers un pauvre avec qui il partagea son vêtement, mais qui fut surtout un grand évêque des premiers siècles de l'Église, et un évêque qui eut un rôle très important dans le développement du monachisme en Occident.

17 novembre 2024 – 33^ème dimanche "B "

Dn 12, 1-3; He 10, 11...18; Mc 13, 24-32

H O M É L I E

          Au moment où l’évangéliste Marc composait son Évangile et relatait les paroles de Jésus que nous venons d’entendre, le monde était rempli de conflits, de guerres, d'oppressions. Les grandes puissances se faisaient la guerre, souvent par peuples interposés, et les oppresseurs prétendaient agir en vertu d'une mission divine. L'avenir de peuples entiers était sacrifié aux ambitions orgueilleuses de pouvoirs enivrés de leur suprématie. En réalité, ce n’était guère différent de la situation actuelle. Qu'on pense à la guerre du Yémen, qui dure depuis des années, où à ce que vit la population palestinienne de la bande de Gaza, ou encore le peuple d’Ukraine.

11 November 2024

Memory of Saint Martin of Tours

Readings 

Homily

Today we celebrate Saint Martin, well known for his act of charity towards a poor man with whom he shared his clothes, but who was above all a great bishop of the first centuries of the Church, and a bishop who played a very important role in the development of monasticism in the West.

13 November 2024 - Benedictine All Saints' Day

Is 61:9-11; Jn 15:1...8

Homily

‘I am the true vine’. This is one of the many statements in which Jesus reveals His identity: I am the living water, the light of the world, the good shepherd, the door of the sheep, the resurrection and the life, the way, the truth, and so on. The elements with which he identifies are almost always essential elements of human life, and an adjective is often added to emphasise their importance: living water, the good shepherd, for example.

10 November 2024 - 32nd Sunday · "B"

1K 17, 10-16; Heb. 9, 24-28; Mk 12, 38-44

HOMILY

Dear brothers and sisters,

Each year we commemorate in our liturgical celebrations the cycle of the main events in the life of the Savior Jesus and we read his teaching in the Gospel, following a cycle of 52 Sundays called the liturgical year, which begins on the first Sunday of Advent. We are therefore very close to the end of this cycle, and the readings on the last Sundays of the year will tell us about the end of time. One of the characteristics of these end times, according to the Gospel, will be the reversal of situations: those who have been underprivileged and oppressed in this life will be in joy, and the privileged of this world who have lived without compassion for the less fortunate will be in pain. This is the context in which this morning's Gospel should be understood.