Soul Food and Homilies
This homily was given by Fr. Arnel Aquino, SJ, on Palm Sunday, 20 March, 2016, at the Cenacle Retreat House. I’m one of 10 Jesuits assigned to San Jose Seminary. This is the time of the year when we...
This homily was given by Fr. Arnel Aquino, SJ, on January 1, 2016, at the Cenacle Retreat House. Early this week, we went on a full ferry boat on our way to Bantayan Island. Across from us sat a...
This homily was given by Fr. Arnel Aquino, SJ, on 17 August, 2013, the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, at the Cenacle Retreat House. The other night, I was talking to a brother Jesuit. His...
This homily was given by Fr. Arnel Aquino, SJ, on the 5th Sunday of Lent 2013, at the Cenacle Retreat House. Readings: Isaiah 43:16-21; Psalm 126:1-6; Philippians 3:8-14; John 8:1-11 A very...
This homily was given by Fr. Arnel Aquino, SJ, on the 1st Sunday of Lent 2013, at the Cenacle Retreat House. Do you remember the movie, Devil’s Advocate? Keanu Reeves plays Kevin, a brilliant lawyer...
This homily was given by Fr. Arnel Aquino, SJ in the Cenacle on the Gospel according to Mark 10: 35-45 (Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time). On my last year in Boston, a friend of mine, Fr...
Homily in the Eucharistic celebration on the Feastday of St. Therese Couderc, foundress of the Cenacle Congregation. Presider, Fr. James Gascon, SJ began his homily with this story: The Story...
Homily of Fr. Jose V.C. Quilongquilong, SJ on the first day of the Novena to the Blessed Trinity through the intercession of St. Therese Couderc 17 Spetember 2012 My dear friends, the message...
Wisdom, it is often said, means remembering what we have always known as children and have forgotten as adults. We forget, unfortunately, because the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” have...