Soul Food & Homilies

Holy Thursday comes like a breath of fresh air, literally and figuratively. We gather in the less hot and humid evening air and sing the gloria with me wearing an immaculate white rather than somber...

Tonight, we wish to reflect on this point, that grace proves victorious every step of the way of Jesus’ passion and death as grace proves victorious at the moment of his resurrection. There is only...

Today, Good Friday, we are in a waterless place. Death surrounds us. We are afraid and anxious. There is so much going on we are confused. We cannot move. We cannot breathe. We are in Calvary. Today...

A big word in the passion narrative is tenderness. First, Judas was still welcomed at the Last Supper. He was not excluded.  He participated in the meal, and took the morsel given to him.  This is...

Abram, Moses, Elijah, & Jesus had something in common other than being four of salvation history’s greatest prophets. They all had to make a departure. Abram left Ur to some new land he was...

(Homily by Fr. Oliver Dy, SJ on 17 Jan 2023, Tuesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time) GOSPEL: Mark 2:23-28 As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to make...

“And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart.” Luke 2: 19 “Ang lahat ng bagay na ito ay tinandaan ni Maria at pinagdili-dili sa kanyang puso.” Lucas 2:19 Let us take our cue from...

“And this will be a sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.” You must have some ribbons from gifts you have received. You may wish to take one...

Which is more important to stress: the ordinariness of Mary or her being special? Jesuit historian John O’Malley tells us during the Vatican II council that a big debate on this matter was whether or...