March 18, 2026 - Wednesday of the 4th Week in Lent

Is 49:8-15; John 5:17-30

Homily

“My Father is always at work, and I too am at work.” It is not unimportant to note that this phrase of Jesus comes at the beginning of a discourse in which he speaks of his love of the Father and his union with him, and of the love and union to which we too are invited, if we know how to come out of ourselves.

          Yesterday, in the vision of Ezekiel that we had as our first reading, we saw Ezekiel increasingly engulfed by the waters of life (first up to his ankles, then up to his knees, then up to his waist...). Going further and further from himself, forgetting himself and allowing himself to be invaded by these waters, he returned to the shore where he had been at the beginning, to discover the trees and fruit that had always been there and that he had not seen before.

          In today's first reading, from Isaiah, God is presented as the most tender of mothers, who opens her arms and leaps for joy when her sons and daughters return from exile

The Gospel takes us to an even deeper level.   Jesus invites us to be one with our Father in heaven, just as he is one with his Father. He invites us not only to be objects of his mercy, but to share the mercy he has for all others as well as for us - not only to do his will, but to have only one will, only one will, only one love with him: which is the most radical form of obedience.

          This radical transformation of our hearts, which remains the goal of our Christian and monastic life, will be offered to us as a special grace in our celebration of the Paschal Mystery. It is also a grace offered to us in every Eucharistic celebration.

          Let us open our hearts to this grace.

Armand Veilleux

17 mars 2026, mardi de la 4^ème semaine de Carême

Ez 47,1-9.12 ; Jn 5, 1-16 

Homélie

          L’une des expressions qui revenait assez souvent dans la bouche du pape François est celle de « périphéries ». Il employait d’ailleurs le mot au pluriel. Il nous appelait tous à aller aux périphéries. Et ce mot a évidemment des sens différents selon la vocation propre des personnes à qui il s’adressait ou selon les contextes dans lesquels il l’utilisait. Son approche était évangélique avant d’être sociologique.

March 17, 2026, Tuesday of the 4^th week of Lent

Ez 47:1-9, 12; Jn 5:1-16

Homily

One of the expressions that used to come up quite often in the mouth of Pope Francis was that of ‘peripheries’. He also used the word in the plural. He called us all to go to the peripheries. And this word obviously had different meanings depending on the specific vocation of the people to whom he was addressing it or the context in which he used it. His approach was evangelical before being sociological.

16 mars 2026 – Lundi de la 4^ème semaine de Carême

Is 65, 17-21 ; Jean 4, 43-54 

H o m é l i e 

En ce début de la deuxième moitié de Carême, les lectures de l’Évangile sont tirées de l’Évangile de Jean, qui, comme nous l’avons vu la semaine dernière, est construit sur une série de signes, accompagnés de paroles. Et le lieu où ce signe est accompli a toujours son importance.

16 March 2026 – Monday of the 4^th week of Lent

Isaiah 65:17-21; John 4:43-54

H o m i l y

As we begin the second half of Lent, the Gospel readings are taken from the Gospel of John, which, as we saw last week, is structured around a series of signs accompanied by words. And the place where the sign is performed is always significant.

March 15, 2026 -- Fourth Sunday of Lent "A"

1 Samuel 16, 1…13; Eph. 5, 8-14; John 9, 1-41

                                                        H O M I L Y

   When something wrong happens to us, ‑‑ like an accident or an illness ‑‑ our first reaction, in most of the cases, is "Why? Why is that happening to me? What have I done to deserve this?" This is the question the Disciples ask, in the presence of the blind man. Or, more exactly, they want to know if that evil came to that man because of his own sins or because of his parents' sins. Jesus refuses to be trapped into that form of reasoning. For Him evil ‑‑ physical of moral ‑‑ is not a thing to be explained; it is a thing to be destroyed. It is a reality man must be freed from.