Have you noticed that the feast we call “Christ the King” does not show us Jesus seated on a throne with a golden crown? Instead, today’s Gospel...
Category - Homilies
Homilies, Year C 2024-2025
HE IS KING: WILL YOU LET HIM REIGN? SOLEMNITY OF CHRIST THE KING YEAR C ON NOVEMBER 23, 2025 (R.1: 2 Samuel 5:1-3; Psalm 122:1-5; R.2: Colossians 1:12-20; Gospel: Luke 23:35-43) FR EMMANUEL INEDU OCHIGBO
Homilies, Year C 2024-2025
NOT WHEN, BUT HOW – LIVING READY WITHOUT FEAR: 33RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C ON NOVEMBER 16, 2025 (R. Malachi 3:19-20a; Psalm 98:5-9; R. 2: 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12; Gospel: Luke 21:5-19) FR EMMANUEL INEDU OCHIGBO
Every few years, someone rises with a new prediction about the end of the world. Recently, a South African Christian Preacher claimed that in a...
Homilies, Year C 2024-2025
BEYOND THE WALLS- HANDS THAT SERVE: FEAST OF THE DEDICATION OF SAINT JOHN LATERAN BASILICA ON NOVEMBER 9, 2025 (R. 1: Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12; Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9; R. 2: 1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17; Gospel: John 2:13-22)FR EMMANUEL INEDU OCHIGBO
After World War II, a small Catholic church in a village in Europe was severely damaged. The bombing had destroyed the roof and...
Homilies, Year C 2024-2025
LOVE THAT PURIFIES BEYOND THE GRAVE: THE COMMEMORATION OF ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED (ALL SOULS DAY) ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2025 (R. 1: Wisdom 3:1–9; Psalm 23:1–6; R. 2: Romans 5:5–11; Gospel: John 6:37–40)
There is an old story about St. Catherine of Genoa, a 15th-century mystic, who once described purgatory not as a dungeon of despair but as a place of...
Homilies, Year C 2024-2025
SAVED BY HIS KYRIE ELEISON: 30TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C ON OCTOBER 26, 2025 (R. 1: Sirach 35: 12-14, 16-18; Psalm 34: 2-3, 17-18, 19, 23; R. 2: 2 Timothy 4: 6-8, 16-18; Gospel: Luke 18: 9-14) FR EMMANUEL INEDU OCHIGBO
Have you ever been so desperate that all you could say was, “Lord, have mercy”? No fancy words, no well-structured prayer, no big...
Homilies, Year C 2024-2025
THE BATTLE IS WON ON THE HILL OF PRAYER: 29TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C ON OCTOBER 19TH, 2025 (R. 1: Exodus 17:8-13; Psalm 121:1-8; R. 2: 2 Timothy 3:14- 4: 2; Gospel: Luke 18:1-8) FR EMMANUEL INEDU OCHIGBO
St. Francis de Sales, the gentle Bishop of Geneva, once made a surprising remark: “I have so much work to do today that I shall spend the first three...
