Sardarji is in a
Quiz Contest with a prize money of Rs.1 crore.
The questions are
as follows:
1) How long was
the 100 year war?
Options : A) 116
B) 99 C) 100 D) 150
Sardar says "I
will skip this"
Easter 3 C - Homily and Stories
Introduction to the Celebration
We have gathered to celebrate the presence of the risen Lord
among us. We are called to be the people who bear witness to his victory over
death. We are the people who proclaim the Father’s forgiveness to the ends of
the earth by being people who are for giving.
Michel de Verteuil
Text comments
During Easter the Sunday and weekday gospel readings are
taken from St John’s gospel; this is the time of year when the Church invites
us to meditate on this gospel. St John is always very deep; traditionally his
is known as “the spiritual gospel”; these weeks should therefore be a time for
us to deepen our meditations.
When you thought I wasn't Looking - Poem
When you thought I wasn’t looking
When you thought I wasn’t looking,
I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator,
and I immediately wanted to paint another one.
I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator,
and I immediately wanted to paint another one.
When you thought I wasn’t looking,
Easter 2 C Sunday - Homilies and Stories
Background:
Often
this Gospel is used as an occasion to prove the Church’s control of the
forgiveness of sins and even to demand more frequent confession.
The
Church, in this perspective, has a monopoly on forgiveness and must be stern in
its use. Patently this narrowly circumscribes the passionate forgiveness of God
which Jesus came to reveal. God may be generous with forgiveness, it is
implied, but the Church cannot and should not. Yet the story of Thomas,
immediately after suggests that such an interpretation of the words of Jesus
missed the points. To forgive is not a right to be jealously guarded, but an
obligation to be exercised generously. We do not earn our own forgiveness by
forgiving others. Rather we manifest the
generosity and implacability of God’s forgiveness of us.
Easter 2013 - Homilies and Stories
An hour later he was finished. He looked out at what seemed to be the smoldering ashes of men's faith. "Are there any questions?" Bukharin demanded. Deafening silence filled the auditorium but then one man approached the platform and mounted the lectern standing near the communist leader. He surveyed the crowd first to the left then to the right. Finally he shouted the ancient greeting known well in the Russian Orthodox Church: "CHRIST IS RISEN!" En masse the crowd arose as one man and the response came crashing like the sound of thunder: "HE IS RISEN INDEED!"
Good Friday
(Courtesy: Fr Tony Kadavil)
Good Friday (I) 2006: Seven Words from the Cross
Biblical anecdote: Hagar at Beer-Sheba versus Mary at Calvary: "Let me not watch to see the child die," (Genesis 21:16) lamented Hagar, after putting her child Ishmael, son of Abraham, down under a shrub, and then going and sitting down opposite him, about a bowshot away. Hagar was the slave and maid servant of Abraham, voluntarily given to him as his substitute wife by his legal wife Sarah, who had proved barren. But later when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael, Sarah became jealous of Hagar and her son and insisted that Hagar and her son should be cast out. Early the next morning Abraham got some bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. Then, placing the child on her back, he sent her away. "As she roamed aimlessly in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba, the water in the skin was used up," (Gen. 21: 14-15) and Ishmael was about to die of dehydration in the scorching heat of the sun. It was then that the broken hearted mother Hagar prayed to God, lamenting that she could not watch her son dying of thirst in the hot desert. The book of Genesis tells us how God intervened and saved Hagar and her son. Centuries later at Calvary we see another mother - Mary - remaining at the foot of the cross of her son Jesus, determined to keep watch with him as he died for the sins of mankind and to hear his last sermon of seven words from the cross. We too are invited today to hear what she heard and to see how her son died as our savior. Let us repeat what Peter said at the mountain of Transfiguration: "Lord, it is good that we stay here."
Holy Thursday
(Courtesy: Fr Tony Kadavil)
Holy Thursday Evening Mass (March 28): Homily Synopsis
Introduction: On Holy Thursday we celebrate three anniversaries: 1) the anniversary of the first Holy Mass, 2) the anniversary of the institution of ministerial priesthood, in order to perpetuate the Holy Mass, to convey God’s forgiveness to repentant sinners and to preach the good news of salvation, 3) the anniversary of Jesus’ promulgation of His new commandment of love: “Love one another as I have loved you.” Today we remember how Jesus transformed the Jewish Passover into the New Testament Passover. The Jewish Passover was, in fact, a joint celebration of two ancient thanksgiving celebrations. The descendants of Abel, who were shepherds, used to lead their sheep from the winter pastures to the summer pastures after the sacrificial offering of a lamb to God. They called this celebration the “Pass over." On the other hand, the descendants of Cain, who were farmers, held a harvest festival called the Massoth in which they offered unleavened bread to God as an act of thanksgiving. The Passover feast of the Israelites (Exodus 12:26-37) was a harmonious combination of these two ancient feasts of thanksgiving, commanded by the Lord God and celebrated yearly by all Israelites, to thank God for the miraculous liberation of their ancestors from Egypt and their exodus to the Promised Land.
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