Homily – Page 14 – Apology Analogy

Ever So Gradually

January 21, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and through it all the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.

The Holy Bible: More Precious than Diamonds

January 21, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

When I found your words, I devoured them: they became my joy and the happiness of my heart, because I bore your name, O Lord, God of hosts. –Jeremiah 15:16– For the word of God is a light to the mind and a fire to the will. It enables man

H.M.S. Incarnation

January 21, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

For he [i.e. Christ] assumed at his first coming the lowliness of human flesh, and so fulfilled the design you formed long ago, and opened for us the way to eternal salvation…. –Preface I of Advent– Have you ever wondered how craftsmen are able to put model ships inside

Going to the Dogs

January 21, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

For the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants Notre Dame of Bethlehem Church Bethlehem, PA 9 July 2011 You are of more value than many sparrows –Matthew 10:31– In his book Marley & Me, John Grogan admits that, even though he was raised a Catholic, he and his new bride

This Will Fix Your Wagon!

January 21, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

Some years ago, I met a five-year-old girl named Mary who had just, only a few days earlier, been presented with a brand new red toy wagon. She never tired of giving her dog Sheppy rides in it. Little Mary smiled at me and whispered: “You know what? I

Stewards of the Sacred

January 21, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

Homily for the First Mass of Father David Matthew Anthony Notre Dame of Bethlehem Church, Bethlehem Pennsylvania 5 June 2016 Tenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C Thus should one regard us: as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Now it is of course required of

Slammed If You Do, Slammed If You Don’t

January 21, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

Jesus said to the crowds: “To what shall I compare the people of this generation? What are they like? They are like children who sit in the marketplace and call to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance. We sang a dirge, but you

Recall the Avocado

January 21, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

Thus is the kingdom of God; as though a man should cast seed into the earth, then sleep and rise, night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow without his knowing it. For of itself the earth bears the crop, first the blade, then the ear, then the

Plunge into Purity

January 21, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God. –Matthew 5:8– Some years ago, an experienced teaching sister at Immaculate Conception Elementary School in Allentown, Pennsylvania, stood before her second-grade class on the first day of school. “Boys and girls,” she began, “my name is Sister Assunta.”

Of Vice and Men

January 21, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

Let both grow together until the harvest. –Matthew 13:30– In his famous experiments of the 1960s, Yale University’s social psychologist discovered that his subjects were, in obedience to authority, surprisingly willing to administer what they thought were high voltage electric shocks to poor learners. As a teacher who is