Homily – Page 7 – Apology Analogy

Come to the Light

April 30, 2018 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

A Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year B Imagine you’ve been in bed for a few days due to the flu. You are on your way to recovery, but you still feel lousy. Your room reeks of sickness and needs to be aired out. The waste can

Festina Lente

April 19, 2018 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

Festina Lente[1] When I was in college, I read an insightful article by the Japanese Catholic author Shusaku Endo.[2] He told the story of an ancient Buddhist temple atop a high mountain in Japan. The temple was so high and remote that it took pious pilgrims hours and even days

Holy Chutzpa

March 13, 2018 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

One of my favorite biblical characters is none other than the Canaanite woman described in the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew: At that time Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out, “Have pity

Beauty Ever Ancient, Ever New

February 18, 2018 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

One thing I ask of the LORD; this I seek: to dwell in the LORD’s house all the days of my life, to gaze on the LORD’s beauty, to visit his temple. –Psalm 27:4– In order to gain adherents to any particular doctrine, it is necessary to change truth into

Kermit and the Clock

January 29, 2018 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

A Homily for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A 18 October 2020 Shine like lights in the world as you hold on to the word of life. –Gospel Acclamation– I bet some of you are familiar with the children’s author Robert McCloskey, who died in 2003. He

Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins

January 19, 2018 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

A Homily for those Preparing for Confession Come now, let us set things right, says the LORD: Though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they may become white as wool. —Isaiah 1:18— You’ve heard the common expression: as

Oh, Deer!

January 17, 2018 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

A Homily for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary time, Year A This past Monday night, as I was coming back to my rectory from a Forty Hours celebration at Saint Theresa’s Church in Hellertown, the young man who happened to be driving me slowed his car and then came to

A Backwards Glance

November 12, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

A Homily for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A During the twenty-four years that I taught theology at Bethlehem Catholic High School, I was in residence at Notre Dame Rectory. One afternoon as I was sitting in the kitchen, in came the pastor, Msgr. Bill Handges. “Hi, Bill!”

The Storm of God’s Quick Wrath

October 18, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

A Homily for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A As Hurricane Harvey was approaching Texas in late August of 2017, officials in that state, in no uncertain terms, were telling residents in the path of the storm to get out, to waste no time in evacuating. If you

A Kintsugi Coalition

September 18, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

The statutes of the LORD are true, all of them just; more desirable than gold, than a hoard of purest gold. –Psalm 19:10-11– In his massive book, The Future of Life, naturalist Edward O. Wilson describes a fascinating battle between two species of ants. Red ants attack black ants.