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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 ...

Homily – Fr Cristiano Pinheiro – December 1st, 2024 – First Sunday of Advent, C
Jeremiah 33:14-16; Psalm 25; 1Thes 3:12-4:2; Luke 21:25-28,34-36 – Fr. Cristiano Pinheiro, Shalom Catholic Community Today we begin the season of Advent. It’s a time that marks the start of a new year in the Liturgical calendar of the Church. It’s the beginning of a new time, a new chapter which is a time of waiting, because life itself is, in many ways, a kind of ‘waiting’, right? And the key question is: what do we fill this ‘waiting time’ of life with? What do we choose to focus on as we journey through life? Do we follow a specific direction? Do we know where we’re headed? Is there a HOPE or a PROMISE lighting our way ahead? Actually, that’s ...

Homily – Pentecost and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit
The love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Spirit of God, that now dwells within us! Today, God pours into the depths of our hearts the very content of His inner life. He gives us the ‘Heart of His heart’, the ‘Life of His life’. The Church is all filled with the Holy Spirit! My friends, the goal of our Christian Life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit! As early as in the Old Testament we see so many outpourings of the Holy Spirit, from God’s Heart into the heart of humanity. Likewise, and with increasing intensity, every single moment of Christ’s Life is Spirit-filled. In the life and mission of Christ, there are many ...

Homily – April 9th, 2023 – Easter Sunday, The Resurrection of the Lord
Homily – April 9th, 2023 – Easter Sunday, The Resurrection of the Lord Acts 10:34,37-43; Ps 118; Col 3,1-4; Jn 20:1-9   Yesterday, on the Easter Vigil we saw the darkness of the night being flooded with Light, all around. But it’s intriguing that the Gospel today starts off by saying that ‘Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark.’   It was dark! The stone that had rolled away from the tomb wasn’t yet speaking of ‘resurrection and life’. Mary thinks that someone had taken her Lord away from there, which would’ve been a further outrageous crime, after everything that had happened. She still sees things as everybody else does. She doesn’t ...

Homily – April 8th, 2023 – The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night
Homily – April 8th, 2023 – The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night Rm 6:3-11; Mt 28:1-10   That violent darkness that has come upon us and surrounded the Crucifixion of the Lord gave way to the joyful, peaceful and intense light of the Resurrection. It’s impressive to move from the darkness of the night into a ‘flame-glittering church’, at the beginning of the Easter Vigil. We really get to see and experience this ‘crossing’ from darkness to light.   Everything seemed to be over but, actually, it is just the beginning. How many times in our lives do we have the feeling that everything is over, that there is no more hope, but as a Christian people, as a Church, it is precisely in those moments that we need to remember that the source of our lives is this very Holy Night, when Light conquers darkness and Life conquers ...

Homily – April 15th, 2022 – Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion
  Is 52:13—53:12; Ps 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; Jn 18:1—19:42 One thing that strikes me every year when I read the Passion is that, as the Gospel is read, Jesus becomes more and more speechless, mute, His lines gradually fade out in the text… The Eternal Word of God becomes a Silent Word; He says nothing more, He simply is a silent life that is offered, a silent Lamb that is slain. These paradoxes of the Gospel are always impressive to me: where there is less, there is more. It’s puzzling, and at the same time so beautiful, to realize how ‘silence’ can be pregnant with a ‘word’ of good news. A silent word that ...
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