Month: February 2018

• 25/02/2018

  Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Lent

  Recently, I was in Washington and visited the Museum of the Bible. Its focus is the history, formation, copying, translating, printing, impact, influence of the Bible. It is new, close […]

• 19/02/2018

  Homily for the 1st Sunday of Lent

  Today Jesus is driven by the Holy Spirit into the desert, and there he is for forty days, tempted by Satan. It’s a mysterious episode: on the edge of human […]

• 17/02/2018

  Homily for Station Mass

  “[This] is the time in the vineyard of the Lord, when, at the planting of the new vines, the old vines are pruned, that they may bear more fruit” (from […]

• 14/02/2018

  Homily for Ash Wednesday 2018

  When I became bishop, I found in the house chapel a casket. Inside the casket were relics of several saints. Some of these were actually bones, one or two a […]

• 11/02/2018

  Homily for the 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B)

  The power of God’s word is what the today’s readings deliver. The Lord says to Moses, ‘I will raise up a prophet like yourself for them…I will put my words […]

• 11/02/2018

  Memoria Dei

  Talk to the Religious of the Diocese. I’d like to talk about the memory of God. It is a great theme. God remembers and so do we. So, memory is […]