The Mass – Apology Analogy

Oh, You Shouldn’t Have!

December 9, 2020 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

(A Not-So-Nice Homily for Christmas) Delivered Christmas 2019 Relations, sparing no expense’llSend some useless old utensil,Or a matching pen and pencil.“just the thing I need! how nice!”It doesn’t matter how sincere itIs, nor how heartfelt the spirit,Sentiment will not endear it,What’s important is the price. “A Christmas Carol” –Tom Lehrer–

The Third Eye

January 19, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

A Talk for the Serra Club’s Dinner for Newly Ordained Priests I have often told Jesus that if I had to invent a religion, I could not come up with a seemingly stranger one than Catholicism. How can the Eucharist, what appears to be bread and wine, really be