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Pilgrims of hope on a missionary journey from the United States to Madagascar
On March 19, the Solemnity of St. Joseph, a group of 13 pilgrims from New York and Boston embarked on their first mission trip to Madagascar. Among global ranks, Madagascar is considered one of the least developed countries in the world, 90% of the population faces an impoverished quality of life. Given these conditions, education is broadly inaccessible and under-resourced. I was one of the blessed pilgrims that went to serve Shalom Madagascar located in Antsiranana, a city in the north of the country. We brought 13 luggage filled with generous donations and interacted with the kids there throughout the school day doing various activities like sports, painting, health checks, nutrition workshop, dance, and English classes.   Shalom Madagascar serves as ...

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 ...

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: 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 ...
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