Your city
Categories
Ordenar por




Jesus makes us look at the ordinary so we can draw out the extraordinary
A homily from Father Cristiano Pinheiro – January 19th, 2025 – Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, C Isaiah 62:1-5; Psalm 96; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11; John 2:1-11 Today, we dive into the story of a wedding feast. Actually, all the readings in today’s Mass will use a ‘spousal’ language; a ‘spousal’ imagery. The prophet Isaiah just breaks into song: ‘As a young man marries a virgin, your Builder (your God) shall marry you.’ It’s such a powerful way to speak, right? Of course, God, our ‘Builder’, isn’t going to marry us in the same way a husband and wife do. But in our human language, the most beautiful and perfect way to describe this deep union that God wants to establish ...

Join Us for the Shalom Open Vocational Discernment Retreat 2025
Are you searching for the purpose that will bring true fulfillment to your life? Do you feel called to a path of holiness and self-gift, but need clarity and guidance? The Shalom Open Vocational Discernment Retreat is the perfect opportunity for you to begin this transformative journey. This year, the retreat will be held in three different locations: Sunday, January 26th, 2025, at 9:00 AM Shalom New York 85 North 15th St., Brooklyn, NY 11222, USA Sunday, January 26th, 2025, at 12:00 PM Shalom Evangelization Center 879 St. Clair Ave W, Toronto, ON, Canada Sunday, February 2nd, 2025, at 12:00 PM Shalom Boston 42 Sciarappa St., Cambridge, MA, USA The theme for this year is “Holiness, Life Offering, and Radicality”, ...

Homily – Jan 1st, 2025 – Eighth Day, Octave of Christmas – The Mother of God
Nm 6:22-27; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Gal 4:4-7; Lk 2:16-21 Right after we’re born, we become aware of ourselves as ‘a person’, as a human being, when we come face-to-face with someone who validates the goodness of our being. Someone whose gaze, whose facial expressions say: “How good it is that you’re here, alive!” When we are valued, not for any advantage we might bring to someone, but SIMPLY FOR BEING WHO WE ARE. We come to “be” when someone looks at us with delight, joy, and satisfaction because we exist… yes… simply because we exist.  And one of these priceless moments – maybe the first of all these moments (maybe you don’t remember that) is when our MOMS ...

Homily – Fr Cristiano Pinheiro – Dec 29th, 2024 – Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, C
Sir 3:2-6, 12-14; Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5; 1 Jn 3:1-2, 21-24; Lk 2:41-52 The Book of Sirach, from which today’s First Reading is taken, is one of the so-called ‘wisdom books’ in the Bible. It’s packed with practical advice for living a virtuous life—with guidelines that lead those who read to a life that’s fruitful, virtuous, and holy. And today, it encourages us to honor our mom and dad, even when they fall short sometimes. ‘My son, take care of your father… Even if his mind fail, be considerate of him.’ It’s likea lesson about love—free, unconditional love. The truth is, many times, we didn’t receive from our parents what we truly needed. No matter how good they were in ...

Homily: Christmas Day – Fr Cristiano Pinheiro – December 25th, 2024
Isaiah 52:7-10; Psalm 98; Hebrews 1:1-6; Jn 1:1-18 “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who announces peace, bearing good news of salvation.” We can say that the first image we get from the readings today is of a Pilgrim from Heaven—a messenger of Good News with beautiful feet! You know, the lowest and dirtiest part of a pilgrim’s body is his feet, which are probably calloused, bruised, and covered in blisters, right? But here’s a paradox: those same ‘pilgrim’s feet’ stand out for their beauty. Right away, we can picture the tiny feet of a newborn baby, which ‘melt our hearts’ when we see them. In their frailty and smallness -and beauty- they bring good news ...

Homily – Third Sunday of Advent, C – Father Cristiano Pinheiro
Zep 3:14-18a; Psalm: Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6.; Phil 4:4-7; Lk 3:10-18 As we draw closer to Christmas, we’re called to rejoice! Gaudete, in Latin, is in the imperative form, Rejoice! Today we’re summoned to ‘Rejoice’ in the nearness of Jesus’ birth! So, everything today is filled with an atmosphere of intense joy! Because we are the community of those who are reached by the love of Christ; we have been saved and we know it! We are the community of the forgiven; the community of the redeemed. So, our hallmark is JOY. Joy is what defines us! So, rejoice – you are saved You know, especially under Pope Francis, we as a Church have entered into a kind of kairos ...
1 … 17 18 19 20 21 … 76