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Brothers and sisters, we all experience fears, worries, and anxieties from time to time because we are prone to fear, anxiety, and worry but mainly due to the fact that our faith is weak and instead of looking at God, too often we look at the problems. Its no wonder the Bible advises us in several places not to worry. Today’s readings tell us not to  worry but place all our trust and hope in Jesus who is the Way to God, the Truth to be accepted, and the Life to be shared and lived. Amen

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Last Sunday's Gospel was the Gospel of Doubting Thomas. This Sunday's Gospel is the Gospel of the Confused Disciples. The readings and psalm this sunday have one common and encouraging theme: That No matter what happens in our lives, the risen Jesus is always with us. God is always near to those who seek Him and want to live in His presence, doing His will.

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Brothers and sisters,The readings this Sunday lay great stress on the facts of Christ’s Resurrection: Christ has died, but he is not dead. He is alive! He has risen! Alleluia alleluia. Easter is a day of high expectations. The Scripture readings and songs testify to this. They are full of hope and joy. But when we think about the first Easter Sunday, it wasn’t all hope and joy. Some were distraught, some were unbelieving, some were angry and felt abandoned and some had just given up hope. They all expected the crucifixion to end Jesus’ promise that He would give us everlasting life.Let us pray for one another, that as we attempt to live this Easter season just like the original disciples did, that our hope will be resurrected and our joy be brought to new life. Let our sense of disillusionment and disappointment with the state of the world today be illuminated by the faithfulness of God in the promises of Jesus Christ. As people of faith, let us carry that faith with us not just in words or ideas, but also in action and choice. Not judging and condemning the needy in our society but feeding, sheltering them, visiting the sick & imprisoned, make efforts to reconcile with others. May we be a visible Easter people to all around us! Amen.

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The readings this sunday remind us  that it is God Who both gives us proper vision in body as well as in soul and instructs us that we should be constantly on our guard against spiritual blindness.

In today's readings we see the dominant  imagery of water - living water, the water of our baptism given freely so that we may have life and have it to the full. We all have thirst,  but what do we thirst for? The readings invite us to come to Jesus Christ the well of salvation, the source of the water that will quench our thirst, our thirst for God.

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Brothers and sisters, we can all recount experiences when we have been attacked before, whether it be verbally, physically or emotionally. And what do we generally do in such circumstances? We fight back. Revenge or retaliation is the automatic human response to violence. This basic principle of retribution is pervasive in our society. 90% of our action films are based on some variation of it. Someone is attacked by another and finds a way to strike back, often with excessive violence. This human natural justice of an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, which is the wisdom of this world implies that what you give is what you get in return.In today's Gospel, Jesus turns this principle on its head. He offers an alternative response as the litmus test for being His disciple. Instead of violence, His followers are supposed to act differently to the standard set by society. Christians are meant to respond to violence with non-violence. We are to offer no resistance to the one who does evil, that we are to turn the other cheek. The 1st reading goes even further as to warn us against bearing hatred or grudges but to love our neighbour as ourselves.In the second reading, St. Paul insists that we are God’s temple and his Holy Spirit lives amongst us. He also discloses that God would destroy anyone who destroys his temple because we are sacred. He warns against using the wisdom of this world because it is foolishness to God. Brothers and sisters let us pray that we will respond to God's call to be holy by loving those who hate us and standing up for our faith even as we pray for those who persecute us. Amen

Brothers and sisters on this 6th Sunday in OT A, the readings reveal to us divine wisdom, a wisdom which is beyond human understanding. This wisdom, the cross of Jesus Christ, we are told in the second reading surpasses the ruler of this world and can only be obtained by the spiritually mature.The first reading from the book of Ecclesiasticus reminds us that it is now within our reach to be faithful or not because God has placed in our hands life and death, and we must make a choice.In the Gospel, Jesus challenges us to not only follow his commandments but also to teach others to do the same.Christ is not asking us to obtain a degree in theology in order to do this but to do so by the examples of our lives.Let us pray today that we will make the Divine wisdom of the cross the right model of our desires. And that God will give us the enabling grace to follow and obey His commandments so that we can enjoy His blessings even more.  Amen.

Brothers and sisters today is Gaudete Sunday! Sunday of Joy. We rejoice because of the signs associated with the coming of the Messiah: the blind see again, the lame walk, lepers ... cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life and the Good News is proclaimed to the poor. These words of Jesus in today's Gospel to John the Baptist's disciples re-echo the prophesy of Isaiah featured in today’s first reading.Like St John the Baptist, we are invited to look at our Lord and all His works in this chaotic world of ours. In the midst of darkness, there is the light of His grace; in the midst of confusion, there is clarity of His teachings; in the midst of hopelessness, there is His promise of salvation. In different ways, we too are called to give witness to this faith as St John the Baptist did.  As St James tells us, “you too have to be patient, do not lose heart, because the Lord’s coming is soon.”Our problems and difficulties may be keeping our spirits low these days but let's not hesitate this Advent to lift up our burdens to the One who offers to carry them on his back and rejoice,  yes rejoice, not in any sorrow or pain that may be ours but in the One who comes from God, who is himself no stranger to all that weighs us down.We pray for the grace to deny ourselves as St John did and live unto Christ. Lets not live for the approval of man, but for the approval of God. So that on the final day, we too will receive praise from the very lips of Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen

Brothers and sisters, the season of Advent is upon us again -  a time of expectation, a time of anticipation, preparation for the coming of Christ at Christmas. This Sunday’s readings encapsulate the Christmas spirit: the spirit of peace. In today’s first reading Isaiah presents his grand vision of the Kingdom of God. In this peaceable kingdom, the poor will be judged with justice and violence will end. Wild animals will coexist peacefully with domestic animals. The lion will lay down with the lamb. calf and lion will feed together,... The infant will play over the cobra’s hole;Isaiah’s peaceful kingdom is very different from the world in which we live. In our world the poor are often judged unjustly and violence erupts in the wars of many nations, Ukrain, Congo, Cameroon, Syria,  our streets & communities and sometimes in our homes. St. John the Baptist, has a message for us. It is - “Repent,” he says “for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand.” Best way to do this is to be reconciled to those with whom we are not at peace with. Brothers and sisters, let us pray that during this Advent season we will work tooth and nail to be reconciled with everyone around us. But first, let us try hard to identify and correct the faults in ourselves which make it difficult for others to get on with us. Amen

Brothers and sisters, today is the last Sunday in the Church’s liturgical year. As we wave goodbye to year C, the readings fix our attention on Jesus as lord and king of the whole of the created universe. In the first reading, we hear  how God’s children are in need of leaders who have the mind of God and who work under the direction of the Holy Spirit. David, a man after God’s own heart, seen as this type of person is anointed the king of Israel.  In the second reading Paul tells us that we are going to share in the inheritance of Jesus Christ..And in the Gospel, the Romans executed Jesus, David’s heir, because he claimed to be “king of the Jews.” Brothers and sisters, we all share in the Kingship of Christ. By virtue of our baptism,  you are a king and I too am a king and in various ways we exercise our kingship both in the Church and the various spheres of our lives to serve our brothers and sisters.This Solemnity of today call our attention to that essential quality of Jesus Christ, the King of kings - The quality of Mercy! Evil will not persist in this world if we all exercise this quality.  Many atrocities that becloud our time would be checked if world leaders were to share the ambition to “be merciful like the Father” (Luke 6:36).We pray today that the King of Mercy will reign in our lives and transform our hearts to be merciful like His. Amen