Forgiveness – Apology Analogy

“Failure Is Not Final”

May 18, 2019 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

A Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter, Year C How many jokes do you know that begin with someone walking into a bar? Here is one, for example: A termite walks into a bar and asks, “Is the bar tender here?” Just as there are a lot

I’m Not the Man I Used to Be

May 10, 2018 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar, and there recall that your brother has anything against you, leave your gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Settle with your opponent quickly while on the

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

I Know What You Did

April 5, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

A Homily for the Third Sunday of Lent Year A Here is one of my favorite stories. It is entitled, “Grandma’s Pet Duck,” and its author is Pastor Steven Cole. I give it to you with a few embellishments: When little Johnny was visiting his grandparents, he was

A Prayer for Mercy

January 22, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Other

Almighty and everlasting God, you do not will that a single sinner should perish, and so you gave the world your Son Jesus, who is Mercy Itself. Make me a mirror of Divine Mercy. Through prayer, the sacraments, and works of charity, grant me the grace to seek your

Sanctified Sleep (Can’t Forgive? Sleep on It!)

January 21, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

So will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each of you forgives your brother from your heart. –Matthew 18:35– I firmly believe that the eight most difficult words in the Our Father are: “as we forgive those who trespass against us.” For most of us, especially if we

The Leprosy of Sin

January 21, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

And a leper came to him, entreating him, and kneeling down he said, “If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.” –Mark 1:40– Once, when I was about eight or nine years old, I said to my sister Marybeth, “Hey, Marybeth! Wouldn’t it be neat if we couldn’t feel

Sweet Revenge

January 21, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

Pray for those who persecute and calumniate you. –Matthew 5:44– I love fairy tales, and by far the very best author of fairy tales is George MacDonald. In his wonderful story, The Day Boy and the Night Girl, an evil witch named Watho mercilessly torments a young hunter named Photogen