Have you ever cleaned your house because a special guest was coming? You vacuum, you mop, you hide the clutter in the closet, and for a moment, the...
Category - Homilies
Homilies, Year A 2025-2026
PREPARE THE WAY: STAY IN YOUR LANE! 2ND SUNDAY OF ADVENT YEAR A ON DECEMBER 07, 2025 (R. 1: Isaiah 11:1-10; Psalm 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17; R. 2: Romans 15:4-9; Gospel: Matthew 3:1-12) FR EMMANUEL INEDU OCHIGBO
Homilies, Year A 2025-2026
ADVENT- AN ALARM CLOCK OF GRACE: 1ST SUNDAY OF ADVENT YEAR A ON NOVEMBER 30, 2025 (R. 1: Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122:1-9; R. 2: 2 Romans 13:11-14; Gospel: Matthew 24:37-44) FR EMMANUEL INEDU OCHIGBO
Have you ever walked into a dark room and realized you had been sitting in the dim for so long that your eyes adjusted to it? You did not notice how...
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
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...
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...
