17 August 2026, Monday of the ^20th week

Ezechiel 24l 15-24; Matt 19, 16-22

                                                                    Homily

In the Prologue to his Rule, St Benedict, in a symbolic scene, describes God passing by in the public square and asking: ‘Who is the one who desires life?’ The monk for whom Benedict wrote his Rule is obviously the one who answers: ‘It's me! And at the end of the Rule, at the conclusion of chapter 72, which is the last written by Benedict (chapter 73 having been written earlier as the conclusion of the Rule in its first form), he recommends that we ‘prefer nothing at all to Christ; may he lead us all together to eternal life’.

August 16, 2026 – 20^th Sunday “A”

Is 56,1.6-7 ; Rom 11,13-15.29-32 ; Mat 15,21-28 

                                                                 H O M I L Y 

          This Gospel reveals to us many things about the person of Jesus as well as about prayer.  Our attitude towards prayer, indeed, usually reveals well enough the image that we have of God and of Christ.

15 août 2026 -- Solennité de l'Assomption de Marie
Apoc 11,19; 12, 1...10; 1 Cor 15, 20-26; Luc 1, 39-56 

                                                                         Homélie 

          Ce récit de l’Évangile que nous venons d’entendre est empreint d’une fraîcheur qu’il fait bon de retrouver après avoir entendu le tableau plutôt violent de la vision de l’Apocalypse que nous communiquait la première lecture, ainsi que le texte de saint Paul nous décrivant le Christ écrasant de ses pieds tous ses ennemis, même si le dernier ennemi qu’il détruit est la mort.

15 August 2026 -- Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary
Rev 11:19; 12:1...10; 1 Cor 15:20-26; Luke 1:39-56

                                                                                  Homily

The Gospel account we have just heard is full of a freshness that is good to find again after hearing the rather violent picture of the vision of the Apocalypse given in the first reading, as well as Saint Paul's text describing Christ crushing all his enemies with his feet, even if the last enemy he destroys is death.

16 août 2026 --20^ème dimanche ordinaire "A"

Is 56,1.6-7 ; Rm 11,13-15.29-32 ; Mt 15,21-28

                                                                             HOMÉLIE

          Cet Évangile nous révèle beaucoup de choses aussi bien sur la personne de Jésus que sur la prière.  D’ailleurs, notre attitude face à la prière révèle en général assez bien l’image que nous avons de Dieu et du Christ.

14 August 2026 - Friday of the ^19th week

Ezekiel 16:1...63; Matt 19:3, 12

                                                                      Homily

Jesus' teaching in this Gospel is about fidelity, both fidelity in marriage and fidelity in celibacy. I say ‘in’ marriage and ‘in’ celibacy, because you are not faithful to marriage or celibacy, but to a person. In celibacy, we are faithful to the person of Jesus Christ, since it was with a view to his kingdom that we became celibate; and in marriage, we are also faithful to Jesus Christ, but this fidelity is then embodied in fidelity to a wife or a husband.