Category: Homily

Isaiah 55:1-3; Romans 8:35, 37-39; Matthew 14:13-21Amid the devastation caused by the recent Assam floods, there are touching stories of compassion. While volunteers were distributing

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1 Kings 3:5, 7-12; Romans 8:28-30; Matthew 13:44-52A member of a youth-group, an Infosys employee, was leaving for the US and wanted to sell his

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Wisdom 12:13, 16-19; Romans 8:26-27; Matthew 13:24-43A bishop, sailing on an ocean-liner, found that he was sharing a cabin. He went to the purser to

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Isaiah 55:10-11; Romans 8:18-23; Matthew 13:1-23“I’m leaving!” said a priest companion as he and I were vesting for the Eucharist. Before a stunned me could

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Zechariah 9:9-10; Romans 8:9, 11-13; Matthew 11:25-30One of your main jobs as a parent is to counter the culture. What the media delivers to children

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2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a; Romans 6:3-4, 8-11; Matthew 10:37-42The lady of the house instructed her butler before a banquet: “Bentley, I want you to stand

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Jeremiah 20:10-13; Romans 5:12-15; Matthew 10:26-33On 06 June, Bishop Osório Afonso, Bishop of Quelimane (Mozambique), was shot dead. According to the World Watch List, last

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Exodus 19:2-6a; Romans 5:6-11; Matthew 9:36—10:8Every evening at the Oratory at Don Bosco Matunga (Mumbai), the kids play for a while before they study. I

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Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; John 6:51-58We give a lot of thought to the food we eat. And that’s good, because our diets significantly

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Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; John 3:16-18Thomas Edison was working on the “light bulb”. It took his team twenty-four hours to put together each

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