24 June 2025 -Solennity of Saint John the Baptist

Is 49, 1-6; Acts 13, 22-26; Luke 1, 57---80

Homily

          Traditional iconography often shows us a stern, shaggy John the Baptist with a rather off-putting appearance.  Such a presentation can obviously be inspired by a few passages in the Gospels reminding us of his preaching and his calls to conversion and penance.  And yet, the theme that recurs again and again in the accounts of his birth is that of joy.

16 June 2025 – Monday of the 11th week

2 Cor 6:1-10; Mt 5:38-42

Turn the other cheek

This passage from the Gospel reminds me of a scene from the life of Mahatma Gandhi. It is an event that took place towards the end of Gandhi's life. India had just gained independence, but it had already split into two countries: India itself, a Hindu country, and Pakistan, a Muslim country; and a civil war was raging in the major cities between Muslims and Hindus. Gandhi then began a fast, determined not to eat anything until peace was restored between the two factions. It was then that a Hindu man came to find Gandhi. He was desperate, convinced that he was damned forever because he had killed a Muslim child. He had killed him in revenge because Muslims had killed his own child. Gandhi then told him what he must do to avoid damnation. ‘Go,’ he said, ‘find a child the same age as the one you lost, adopt him and raise him as your own child. But above all, take care to choose a Muslim child and raise him as a good Muslim.’

June 15, 2025 - Trinity Sunday

Prov 8, 22-31 ; Rom 5, 1-5 ; John 16,12-15

                      H O M I L Y

           The Scripture describes creation as the work of a playful God. In the book of Proverbs we heard the Wisdom of God say: "When he made firm the skies above, when he fixed the foundations of the earth... I was beside him... and I was his delight day by day, playing before him all the while, playing on the surface of his earth; and I found delight in human persons”.

8 juin 2025 : Mémoire de Marie Mère de l’Église.

Gen. 3, 9-15.20 ou Ac 1, 12-14 ; Jean 19, 25-34

Homélie

          Au cours du Concile Vatican II, certains Pères conciliaires auraient voulu la proclamation d’un document consacré spécifiquement à la Vierge Marie, lui attribuant sans doute de nouveaux titres en plus de tous ceux que la Tradition et aussi la piété populaire lui ont conférés. Le Concile opta plutôt pour parler de Marie au chapitre 8 de la Constitution dogmatique Lumen gentium, sur l’Église, situant Marie au cœur du Mystère du Christ et de l’Église,