LATEST HOMILY
GOOD FRIDAY
April 3, 2026

Focus: Christ’s death shows the Intentionality of God’s Love for all His Children.

Function: Be intentional in all encounters we have with another as Christ is intentional with His love for us in His Passion.  

Today as we celebrate the Lord’s Passion, I reflect on  this past week that  I watched the Passion of Christ with our Young Adults. It has dawned on me that every time I watch this dark yet emotional film, I find a new insight from it. The first time I watched it, I came to realize that Christ’s suffering was far more than the human mind can fathom. After the first showing, I had a much deeper insight that Christ’s love for us is so immense and intense that He even makes excuses for us before the Father. In the film as Christ is being nailed to the Cross, He prays: “O Father forgive them! They don’t know They don’t know!” Every time I watch that scene my heart is full and I can’t help but to beat my breast. But as I watched it for the first time with our Young Adults, I realized something that I’ve never seen before. Christ’s beautiful act of intentionality that is fueled by His love for us. Intentionality! It is the validation of real and genuine Love. If there is no intentionality in one’s action then we can be assured that there is little to no love. Intentionality is more than just willing the good of the other. It is also seeing the other person and the whole of them as if they are seeing themselves through you. Intentionality steps outside of one’s own self to have another share in the love that we already have for ourselves. Christ in His Passion for us demonstrates the prime and perfect example of such intentionality. Even before the cross, Christ reveals His intentionality from His birth by becoming one of us. Christ sees us! He comes outside of His Father’s glory to be like us in all things but sin and He dies in such a way that He wants to feel every pain that we have felt because of sin (Mathew 27:34). Though rejected, despised and mocked Christ is intentional with His Love. Though he thirst for Love He pours it out. What Christ does is intimidating to follow because we know how hard it is to be intentional in a world that rejects Christ and us . We have experienced so many different forms of hurt from so many different people. On the other hand, Christ has left us an example to follow. We are not called to be accepted by everyone, we will not be loved by everyone and for every ten persons that are for us there will be one or two that will be against us. But what does this matter whether we are liked or not by others? What does matter is that we live a life being intentional around all who come our way. Like Jesus who laid down His life with great intentions to suffer for us so we too are called out to suffer for others. We may not feel up to being our best some days, but how rewarding it would be if we gave the best to others even we are down. We may not be filled with warmth and compassion every week but how such little  warmth and compassion we may have  could light up a cold and harden heart that was days away from shattering to pieces. Christ knew  that He would be killed mercilessly but He was intentionally anyway. Why, because He knew that who was within Him was greater than what others wanted to do to Him and so He loved anyway. Love anyway! If you have been abused love anyway, if you have been rejected love anyway, if you have been lied to or cheated on love anyway and be intentional! When  we are intentional with loving actions, we give the world hope that someone cares for humanity just as Christ cared for all humanity on this great Solemnity of Good Friday. 

Amen!

MASS of the LORD'S SUPPER
April 2, 2026

Focus: The Entrance of the Sacred Triduum call for Silence into the Lord’s Passion, Death and Resurrection.

Function: Enter into the Silence of these Sounding Holy Days.  

A.The Lamb Mute Before the Sharrer. 

• My dear friends we have now completed the forty days of,
• Lent and now have entered into the shortest but most, 
• Powerful season of the Liturgical Calendar. The Sacred,
• Triduum. We begin of course with Holy Thursday where we,
• Commemorate the washing of the feet which is the,
• Institution of the priesthood. And of course, the institution, 
• Of the Eucharist as well.
• Tomorrow we will mourn the death,
• Of the Lord with Good Friday. Reflecting with contrite,
• Hearts the painful suffering Jesus endured for our salvation. 
• Realizing in our hearts that it was us who should have been, 
• In His place, rather He took it Himself. And finally, 
• On Saturday we keep vigil at the tomb as the Lord rests. 
• But as the sun sets in the west, in the dark of night we will,
• Gather around the paschal fire that will bring in the light of,
• World who shatters our darkness and destroys our death. 
• These high holy days my friends are the reason for why we,
• Are a Church. Why we worship and why the sacramental,
• Life of the Church is so important. 
• Without this sacred worship we cannot enter into the, 
• Magnitude of what Christ has done for us. And the Church,
• Calls each and everyone of us to enter into deep silence and,
• Prayer to reflect on such measures Our Lord took to save,
• Our lives.  
• I am sure many of you noticed that as you journeyed here, 
• For Mass you would have seen Easter holiday activities. 
• Bars open and shops still hustling and bustling before the,
• Public holiday sets in place. It is not a judgement on,
• Those immersed in such secular activities, rather it is a
• Wake up call for all of us not to be asleep. If we have not, 
• Noticed already we are surrounded by noise. Not sounds, 
• But noise that disrupt the sacred sound of silence. 
• As we prepare to commemorate the Holy Death of Jesus, 
• He invites us into that same silence He entered into,
• when He was mute as a lamb before the Sharrer. 
• Christ spoke, taught, laughed and spent,
• Quality time with His friends and family. But when the hour,
• To glorify His Father had come. He was silent and He,
• Entered into the great supplication for our salvation. 
• Jesus shows the sanctity of his Death and Resurrection by,
• Being silent before the world that does not know Him,

B.The Powerful Sound of Silence

• Many of us are afraid of silence and this is normal. 
• Silence conjures up the deep inner thoughts and emotions, 
• Of the heart. It brings to mind the unanswered questions of, 
• Our own lives that we wish not to explore. Silence can be a
• Frightening place my friends. And that is where we can,
• Meet the Lord Jesus. If we think silence, is a scary place, 
• Imagine the Lord when we He was in agony in the garden,
• On this most holy and tension—filled night of His life. 
• As He was in the garden Christ was faced with the daunting,
• Reality of His suffering, His agony, His abonnement,
• And His Death. 
• This was the night He showed the fullness of His Love, 
• The centre of His Incarnation, and The Sanctifying office,
• Of His Sacred Priesthood. All of these things and more, 
• Were brought upon Christ as He prayed in silent agony. 
• Beautiful as it sounds, it was just as heavy to bear and to,
• Reflect on. But He pulled though it. And He invites us to do,
• The same. Like Christ we have so many chalices that we,
• Wished to pass from us. But we must unite our will to the,
• Father in Christ and drink. We may hurt for some, 
• Time, But God is with us, in us and through us as we bear, 
• Our crosses. In the silence we meet Jesus, we meet Him, 
• In our agony, in our abandonment, and in our death.
• My friends, if we claim to follow Christ, we have to follow, 
• Him in the priesthood He has bestowed on us. And that is to,
• Sacrifice our fears for Love of God and Neighbour, 
• As we celebrate the ministerial priesthood, we also 
• Celebrate the priesthood of all the baptized.
• That is each and everyone of us who are baptized.  
• Like Christ we are called to offer up a pleasing sacrifice to, 
• The Father and that sacrifice is us and all that we come with. 
• Everything we embrace and are afraid of. 
• Exercise the office of the priesthood each and everyone of, 
• Us were baptized into. Sit a while in silence with Christ this,
• Evening. 
• Do not run off so quickly after this evening’s Mass. 
• Come and stay a while at the altar of repose, watch and pray. 
• Join with Christ in the agony so that your agony may be,
• Heard. Sweat with Him great drops of blood so that, you
• May exorcise the fears, and lies the evil one has placed in 
• you. But most importantly remain with Him in silence and,
• Recognize that as Christ has given Himself up as food for,
• His sheep in the form of bread and wine. 
• We are called to be,
• Food for others. We are slaves for Christ for the sake of the,
• Other my friends. That is what awaits us in the silence. That,
• This where Christ calls us to die with Him so a new self, 
• May rise in glory. Silence is more powerful than we think. 
• It is in the silent rest of the tomb the world changed, 
• forever. And such silence has been sounding off for over 2,000 years.  

Amen!