Soul Food & Homilies

LAUNCH OF THE 50TH YEAR CELEBRATION OF THE CENACLE IN THE PHILIPPINES September 25, 2015: Sunday Cenacle Chapel, Quezon City HOMILY Fr. Edmundo Martinez Today the Cenacle launches its year-long...

Homily by Fr. Arnel Aquino, SJ, for the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, at the Cenacle Retreat House, Quezon City. The Gospel is from Luke 16:1-13. Let me read to you a text I received recently...

There was a time before I was ordained when religious life became a particularly rough & stormy ride. I would write my mom about them, but careful to not laden her with details she might either...

Homily by Fr. Arnel Aquino, SJ, for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, at the Cenacle Retreat House, Quezon City. The Gospel is from Luke 10:38-42. My elder brother & I did very well in the...

By Fr. Braulio Dahunan, SJ Is Jesus trying to attract or to discourage followers? In today’s Gospel, Jesus is so honest and upfront in bringing about the hardships and difficulties it will involve in...

This homily was given by Fr. Arnel Aquino, SJ, on the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ; Cenacle Retreat House, May 29, 2016. There’s something that only a few single people might fully...

This homily was given by Fr. Roger Champoux, SJ, during the Easter Vigil Mass at the Cenacle Retreat House last March 26, 2016. We have three main themes in the readings of this Easter Vigil: • We...

I just want to say first of all that I am going to talk about Batman versus Superman—which I presume most of you, if not all of you, Grade 10ers, have already seen, right? But don’t worry. No spoilers...

It must have been a strange and solemn sight for the apostles. Here they were about to do what they had done countless times before: break bread, eat bitter herbs, drink wine, and partake of the lamb...