Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thursday – Thirteenth Week – OT2 Readings: Am 7:10-17; Mt 9:1-8 Reading 1 (Am 7:10-17): Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam, king of Israel: “Amos has conspired against you here within Israel; the country cannot endure all his words. For this is what … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Wednesday – Thirteenth Week – OT2 Readings: Amo 5:14-15, 21-24; Mt 8:28-34. 1/ First Reading: NAB Amos 5:14 Seek good and not evil, that you may live; Then truly will the LORD, the God of hosts, be with you as you claim! 15 … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Tuesday – Thirteenth Week – OT2 Readings: Amo 3:1-8, 4:11-12; Mt 8:23-27. 1/ Reading I: RSV Amos 3:1 Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Apostles – June 29th Readings: Acts 12:1-11; 1 Tim 4:6-8, 17-18; Mt 16:13-19. Reading 1 (Acts 12:1-11): In those days, King Herod laid hands upon some members of the Church to harm them. He had James, the brother of John, killed by the … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thirteenth Sunday – Year A – Ordinary Time Readings: 2 Kgs 4:8-11, 14-16a; Rom 6:3-4, 8-11; Mt 10:37-42. 1/ Reading I: RSV 2 Kings 4:8 One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So, … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Saturday – Twelfth Week – OT2 Readings: Lam 2:2, 10-14, 18-19; Mt 8:5-17 Reading 1 (Lam 2:2, 10-14, 18-19):The Lord has consumed without pityall the dwellings of Jacob;He has torn down in his angerthe fortresses of daughter Judah;He has brought to the ground in dishonorher king … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Friday – Twelfth Week – OT2 Readings: 2 Kgs 25:1-12; Mt 8:1-4 Reading 1 (2 Kgs 25:1-12): In the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the month,Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and his whole armyadvanced against Jerusalem, encamped … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thursday – Twelfth Week – OT2 Readings: 2 Kgs 24:8-17; Mt 7:21-29. 1/ First Reading: NAB 2 Kings 24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Nehushta, daughter of Elnathan … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist – June 24th Readings: Isa 49:1-6, Acts 13:22-26; Lk 1:57-66, 80. 1/ First Reading: NAB Isaiah 49:1 Hear me, O coastlands, listen, O distant peoples. The LORD called me from birth, from my mother’s womb he gave me … Read more
Please press here to listen to the homily or download Tuesday – Twelfth Week – OT2 Readings: 2 Kgs 19:9b-11, 14-21, 31-35a, 36; Mt 7:6, 12-14 Reading 1 (2 Kgs 19:9b-11, 14-21, 31-35a, 36): Sennacherib, king of Assyria, sent envoys to Hezekiah with this message: “Thus shall you say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: ‘Do not … Read more