Homilies about communion

El Amor de Dios y la Felicidad: Lecciones de la Santísima Trinidad

The homily emphasizes that God is love and that true happiness comes from loving and being loved, not from material possessions or individualistic pursuits. The priest uses the mystery of the Holy Trinity as a model for communion and family, urging listeners to combat indifference and loneliness by fostering love, solidarity, and community, especially within the family. He highlights the importance of parental love for children's happiness and encourages seeking God's wisdom and presence in all life's challenges.

The Trinity as a Symphony: How Liturgy Tunes Our Hearts to God's Love

Father Isaac

The homily uses J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Silmarillion' to explain the mystery of the Holy Trinity and creation. It posits that God created the world as a perfect harmony, and sin is a dissonant note. The liturgy is presented as the means by which we are invited to participate in this divine harmony, emphasizing that active participation transforms us and draws us into the life of the Trinity.

The Trinity: God's Love Descends to Us

Monsignor Silvio Baes

The homily for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity emphasizes that God is not a distant, isolated being, but rather a communion of love that descends to humanity. It highlights that our human condition is created for communion and relationship, mirroring the Trinitarian love. The priest connects this theological understanding to practical living, urging believers to foster inclusion, respect, and solidarity in society, rejecting division and exclusion.

Corpus Christi: The Moral Responsibility of the Eucharist

Father Henry

The homily emphasizes the moral responsibility of receiving the Eucharist, connecting it to Mary's visitation and the Holy Trinity's nature of love. It highlights two key attributes of the Eucharist: sacrifice, exemplified by the Good Samaritan, and communion, urging believers to reach out to all people's material, spiritual, and emotional needs, not just material ones.

The Mystery of the Trinity: Why We Can't Fully Understand God

The homily reflects on the mystery of the Holy Trinity, using the traditional anecdote of St. Augustine and the child trying to empty the ocean into a small hole to illustrate the limits of human understanding of God. It emphasizes that while we cannot fully comprehend God, we can know Him through His self-revelation and are called to live in communion and love, mirroring the Trinitarian love.

La Trinidad: Dios de Amor y Comunión, No de Castigo

The homily on the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity emphasizes that God is not a distant punisher but a compassionate, merciful, and loving God, as revealed through Christ. It challenges believers to reflect this Trinitarian communion of love, self-giving, and communication in their own lives, warning that a lack of love and communion can lead to a 'hell' experienced here on earth.

How the Eucharist Heals Our Shattered Hearts: A Priest's Personal Story

Father Peter Randolph

The homily emphasizes that Jesus's flesh and blood are true food and drink, not just for physical nourishment but for spiritual, emotional, psychological, and even physical healing and communion. The priest shares a deeply personal story of how the Eucharist sustained him through the grief of a loved one's death, highlighting its power to heal shattered hearts in a broken world.

Corpus Christi: Why the Eucharist is Not Just a Symbol

The homily emphasizes the literal truth of Christ's words regarding the Eucharist as his true body and blood, not merely a symbol. It explains that the doctrine of transubstantiation is a mystery of faith, not a scientific explanation, and connects the Eucharist to God's desire for communion with humanity, culminating in the celebration of Corpus Christi and the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The Trinity: Why God is Love and We are Made for Communion

Father Fred

The homily reflects on the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity, emphasizing that God is not solitary but is eternal, self-giving love. It connects the Trinitarian nature of God to human communion, arguing that humans, made in God's image, are meant for relationships, not isolation, and find true life in self-giving love rather than selfishness. The priest illustrates this with a story of three simple monks who, despite not knowing formal prayers, lived the essence of Trinitarian love through their simple faith.

Why God Made Us for Communion: Overcoming the Pandemic of Loneliness

The homily begins by contrasting the scientific search for life's origins with the Christian understanding of creation by a loving God. It then explores the concept of the Holy Trinity as a model for human communion, lamenting the increasing isolation and loneliness in modern society, exacerbated by technology. The priest emphasizes the importance of fostering real communion within families and the church community as preparation for eternal communion with God.

How the Trinity Calls Us to Active Love and Unity in a Disintegrated World

Father Da

The homily emphasizes that God, as the Holy Trinity, is a God of love, grace, and communion, actively engaged with the world. It calls believers to respond to God's love by actively engaging with the world with a heart and mind aligned with God's values, rejecting disintegration and embracing unity. The Eucharist is presented as a source of nourishment and satisfaction for personal cravings and emptiness.

The Eucharist: A Taste of Eternal Life Today

The homily emphasizes that the Eucharist is not just a promise of heaven, but a taste of eternal life and communion with God here and now. The priest uses the analogy of wine-making and soil conditions to illustrate that our hearts' disposition, characterized by radical generosity and a grateful heart, is crucial for truly receiving the transformative power of the Eucharist.

Corpus Christi: Why Jesus Says 'Gnaw' My Flesh, Not Just 'Eat' It

This homily for Corpus Christi emphasizes the distinction between the Holy Thursday and Corpus Christi celebrations of the Eucharist, highlighting the latter's focus on the resurrected Christ leading us to abide in him. The priest delves into the challenging language Jesus uses in John's Gospel, specifically the Greek word 'throgo' (to gnaw) for eating his flesh, underscoring the concrete reality of the Eucharist as a true encounter with Christ's person, not merely a metaphor.

Understanding the Mystery of the Holy Trinity: Avoiding Common Heresies

Father Vincent

The homily addresses the mystery of the Holy Trinity, emphasizing its distinctiveness in Christianity. The priest clarifies common heresies like modalism, partialism, Arianism, and subordinationism, using analogies while cautioning against oversimplifying the profound nature of God as three distinct persons in one divine nature. He stresses that the Trinity is a communion of love.

The Trinity: God's Call to Love, Unity, and Mercy

The homily emphasizes that the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity is the greatest mystery of faith, revealing God as love, unity, and communion. The priest stresses that God is not a judge but a patient, faithful, and merciful savior who desires our unity and love, urging the faithful to live in communion, not division or jealousy, mirroring the Trinity's perfect unity.

The Eucharist: For All, Not Just the 'Holy Ones'

The homily for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ emphasizes two key aspects of the Eucharist: God's infinite love in remaining with humanity through the sacrament, and the pain of those who cannot receive Holy Communion. The priest challenges the congregation to reflect on the exclusivity sometimes perceived around the Eucharist, arguing that Jesus intended it for 'all,' not just 'many,' and urges prayer for those who are unable to partake due to various circumstances, including those in irregular marital situations.

The Eucharist: Our Answer to the Hunger for Real Presence

Father Randy Sampino

The homily emphasizes the Eucharist as the true and substantial presence of Christ, not just a symbol, and how it sustains us for eternity, unlike the mana that only lasted a day. It highlights that the Eucharist addresses our deep human hunger for real presence and communion, uniting us to Christ and to one another, calling us to become what we receive by being present and compassionate to others.

Trinity Sunday: Who is God For Us?

This homily, delivered on Trinity Sunday, acknowledges the profound mystery of God as Trinity, referencing St. Thomas Aquinas's inability to fully comprehend it. Instead of attempting a full explanation, it focuses on 'Who is God for us?' emphasizing God's attributes of grace, love, and communion, and how these should be reflected in our own lives and relationships. The homily concludes by encouraging us to see God's mystery within each person we encounter.

The Trinity: A Mystery of Love, Not a Puzzle to Solve

Father Adilso Coelho

The homily emphasizes that the Holy Trinity is not a mathematical puzzle to be solved, but a mystery of love and communion to be adored. It highlights God's patience and desire for relationship, urging the faithful to reflect the Trinity's unity and love in their own lives through mutual respect, generous giving, and charity, especially in the face of differences.

Living a Trinitarian Life: Grace, Love, and Communion

Father Andre

The homily on Holy Trinity Sunday emphasizes that God reveals himself as a relational, merciful, and loving communion of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It explores how this Trinitarian nature is reflected in creation, salvation history, and even in the human person (body, mind, soul), calling believers to live lives of grace, love, and communion, actively working against individualism and for mission.