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Sept 6, 2010 - Work is For Human Beings not Human Beings for Work |
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Labour Day 2010 Homily
Even as we commemorate Labor Day, once again our spirits are dulled by the high unemployment, increasing foreclosures and soaring budget deficit. But, here we are in the Church and in the presence of God. Some of us are grateful that we have employment; some of us bring the pain of our struggles; some of us come seeking God’s intervention and others are here just to be in the presence of God. Does God have anything to say to us today? Is God among us and our struggles?
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Sept 5, 2010 - The Cost of Discipleship |
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Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today's Scripture
I remember this incident very clearly. I was in my moral theology class in the Seminary. The professor began his class by asking all of us to write our epitaph. I wanted mine to be the best and the most impressive. I remember thinking hard for a minute and finally wrote down the words: “Here lies a man who lived his life to the full.” I was so convinced that everyone in the room would want to copy my epitaph. When I shared my epitaph with the class, I did not hear the ooohs and the aaahhs I was expecting. The professor passed on to my friend sitting next to me. He had merely written, “Here lies a disciple.” Not only was I highly embarrassed at my own epitaph, but that was the single most life changing moment of my life. It is 20 years since then. Disciple – this word haunts me today as it did that day.
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Aug 29, 2010 - Pride Costs |
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Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today's Scripture
(Comment Point: Has Pride cost you? What is the price of humility?)
This was the first time ever that I was shopping for new car tires. Of the numerous options, I settled for the top of the line Michelin tires. Partly I did this because the salesman at the counter told me that it would cost me $ 176. I could not get tires so cheap in India. My eyes popped out when he gave me the printed bill. He had meant $176 a tire. The total was $704 + tax. That was my one pay check! I I had to save my manly pride. I pretended I was cool and for the first time, I broke a principle I live by and charged it to my American Express. This, after all, is the land of the brave and the free. I am not sure if the salesman at the counter was impressed or not, but I learnt it the hard way – pride is expensive. Pride costs.
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Aug 22, 2010 - If You Could Design Heaven... |
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Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today's Scripture
(Comment Point: What would your heaven look like? Post your comments at the end of the homily)
There are controversies simmering in our country on multiple fronts. Immigration, legal and illegal, is one of them; An Islamic centre at the new World Trade Centre in New York is another one; should babies born in the US be automatically given citizenship status is yet another one; and the age old controversy regarding race has come to the forefront in a brazen way the last couple of years. I am not going to try to answer these questions in this homily but I am sure that each one of has an opinion on each of these issues. But I guess, each person's opinion is a reflection on who they want included or excluded from membership in this country. Let us me say this at the very outsiet - 0ur opinion in these matters is not merely a political, social, or economic stand we take; our opinion in this matter is also a moral stand.
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Aug 15, 2010 - Are Catholics Crazy to Believe in the Assumption of Mary? |
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Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Today's Scripture
Yes! If we believe Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Ark of the Covenant has been found. But let’s leave that to the imagination of Hollywood Cinema. The real history of the Ark is more complicated than that.
God commanded the construction of the Ark to Moses while the Hebrew people were still camped at Sinai (Ex 25:10-22). It was constructed of acacia wood, and was plated with pure gold, inside and out. On the bottom of the box, four gold rings were attached, through which two poles, also made of acacia and coated in gold, were put. The Ark contained the first tablets of Ten Commandments, which were broken by Moses and the second tablets, which remained intact. As time progressed the Ark was placed in a tabernacle. When Solomon built the Temple in about 1000 BC, the Ark found a permanent place in the Holy of Holies in the inner sanctuary of the Temple in Jerusalem.
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