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Homily – November 24th – Christ the King

Homily – November 24th – Christ the King

On this last Sunday of the Church’s liturgical year, the Solemnity of Christ, King of the Universe, we have a couple of readings that are as bizarre as last Sunday’s readings. The first reading from the Book of Daniel and the second reading from the Book of Revelation fall under the category of “apocalyptic” readings. You may have heard the word “apocalypse”; it means revelations. Some truth, hidden until now, is about to be revealed. The word “epiphany”, one of ...

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Fr Phil

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Homily ~ November 17, 2024 ~ 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time

Homily ~ November 17, 2024 ~ 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time

I don’t know about you, but I find the Scripture readings we just heard obscure and cryptic, very hard to get my head into. They’re not the typical stories that I can easily place myself in the middle of. Readings about the end time tend to be that way.

It reminds me of a “Peanuts” cartoon. Many of us grew up as kids reading only the cartoon section of the newspaper. In this one episode, Charlie Brown is laying back on ...

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Fr Phil

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Reflection – November 10th, 2024 – 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time

Reflection – November 10th, 2024 – 32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time

November – Depressing or Uplifting?

When I was young and thought time just seemed to be dragging on, my mother used to tell me that once you get out of school, time will fly.  And the older you get, the quicker it will seem to go.  Along with many other things she told me, this has certainly proven to be true.  It seems like summer just finished, yet here we are heading for the middle of November already.  I have heard ...

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Mark Mahoney

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Homily – November 3rd, 2024 – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time

Homily – November 3rd, 2024 – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time

Back in 2003, while on a sabbatical year, I drove from Toronto to Tucson, Arizona to go on a retreat. What spurred me on to drive the 3600 km was the title of the retreat: “The Soul Tells A Story.” It was a retreat for writers, editors, publishers and, if you happened to be a priest, you could come too. So I went. Ever since then, I’ve had a secret passion to write. From that time on, I’ve discovered many ...

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Fr Phil

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Reflection – November 3rd, 2024 – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reflection – November 3rd, 2024 – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time

The readings today emphasize that LOVE is the greatest law  fulfilling all commandments. We are urged to love God ” with all our heart  soul , mind and strength”. Jesus also teaches that we must love our neighbours as ourselves. We are told to love God and show that love through our actions towards others. Every opportunity to love someone is an opportunity to love God.   

As a former English teacher, I’ve looked at the word “love” – is “love” ...

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Cathy Keirstead

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Reflection – October 27th, 2024 – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reflection – October 27th, 2024 – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time

To Follow Jesus is to Stop and Ask What is Needed

Throughout the gospels people come to Jesus asking for healing for themselves and others, so why is it that in today’s gospel a blind man is scolded and told to be quiet when he calls out to Jesus?

One of the things that stands out to me about this healing story is that the man in need of healing is identified both by name and by family. He is not just ...

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Pam Driedger

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Homily – October 20th, 2024 – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Homily – October 20th, 2024 – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Scholars still don’t know who wrote The Letter to the Hebrews, that second reading we heard. But what they do know is that, like all the other books of the Bible, The Letter to the Hebrews is inspired by God. What I find inspirational, personally, is the part where the author says, “We have a great high priest (referring to Jesus) who, although he was in heaven, was never content with remaining there ruling the world from a distance. He ...

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Fr Phil

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Reflection – October 20th, 2024 – 29th Sunday in Ordinary TIme

Reflection – October 20th, 2024 – 29th Sunday in Ordinary TIme

My mother had a multitude of pithy sayings, some her own phrases, some borrowed from others. One such saying was, “Misery loves company.” I thought of that when I read today’s second reading. “We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are,” Paul writes to the Hebrews. Someone who can sympathize with us; someone who understands our sufferings; someone who ...

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Ellen Bennett

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Reflection – October 13th, 2024 – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reflection – October 13th, 2024 – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Room for God to Work

Can you tell me how God is at work in your life today? Maybe pause for a moment and give this some thought…where do you see evidence of the Holy Spirit moving through your life?

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What did you come up with? I suspect each person will have a unique take on this. Did anyone answer, “I don’t know”?

If I am being honest, I rarely feel confident in my understanding of how God works in my life at ...

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Trevor Droesbeck

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Homily – October 6th, 2024 – 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Homily – October 6th, 2024 – 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Without having the text right in front of you, as I do, it’s hard for you to remember a word or a line that may have stuck with you in one of today’s scripture readings. However, the last line of that second reading, the Letter to the Hebrews, stands out for me. It went like this: “Everyone is one in God, therefore he (Jesus) is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.” That text was written almost 2, 000 ...

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Fr Phil

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