Fr. Thomas Liju OFM Cap.

My dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, as we begin this sacred season of Lent, we are invited to deepen our relationship with God through prayer, fasting and alms giving. Today, the Church presents us with powerful Scripture passages that invite us to reflect on the nature of temptation, our weaknesses, and God’s provision […]

My dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, we are in the 5th Sunday in ordinary time. Today we have the gospel passage from St Mathew, this is the continuation of the sermon on the mount. After the Beatitudes Jesus does something striking: He does not give new rules, He gives an identity. “You are

My dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ. We are in the 4th Sunday in ordinary time. Today we hear one of the most familiar passages in the Gospel: The Beatitudes. Many people call them the heart of Jesus’ teaching. Jesus says: Blessed are the poor in spirit, blessed are those who mourn, blessed are

My dear brothers and sisters today we celebrate the third Sunday in ordinary time. Today’s readings remind us that God enters our darkness with light, calls us from divisions to unity and invites us out of comfort into a deeper mission. In the first reading taken from the book of the prophet Isaiah, Isaiah addresses

Today we celebrate the feast of the baptism of the Lord, a pivotal moment in the life of Jesus and in the story of salvation. While we might initially think of baptism as a rite for the forgiveness of sins, something significant happens here. Jesus, the sinless Son of God, chooses to be baptized in

Dear friends in Jesus Christ, today we celebrate the solemnity of Mary Mother of God and we conclude the Christmas octave today. Last week on this day we celebrated Christmas, the birth of Jesus, today we celebrate the solemnity of Mary Mother of God connected to the birth of Jesus. In other words, both the

Dear friends in Jesus Christ, we are in the 33rd Sunday in ordinary time year C. in the first reading Prophet Malaki speaking to the Jews who returned from the exile in Babylon, he says that the destruction of the temple is the end of the present age, that the Lord will come and vindicate

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ After the second world war a small catholic church in a village in Europe was severely damaged. The bombing had destroyed the roof and shattered the windows, when the parishioners began to clear what was left, they found something remarkable, the statue of the risen Christ was still

Today’s gospel gives us one of the most human and hopeful encounters in the entire bible: the meeting of Jesus and Zacchaeus. It is a story full of movement, a man climbs up, Jesus looks up, and then calls him down. It is a story of a man seeking, and a God who has already