5 August 2024 -- Monday of the ^18th Ordinary Week, even-numbered year
Jer 28, 1-17; Mt 14, 13-21

HOMILY

This multiplication of loaves, recorded in the Gospel we have just read, is the only miracle of Jesus that is reported by each of the four evangelists. This clearly shows the importance attributed to it by the first Christians. Each Gospel wants to show Jesus in its own way as the new Moses, capable of feeding his people in solitude and leading them through the desert. Matthew, in the version of the story we have just heard, explicitly describes Jesus coming to the desert, surrounded by a crowd without food.

4 août 2024 – 18^ème dimanche "B"

Ex 16, 2...15; Ep 4, 17-24; Jn 6, 24-35

H O M É L I E

          Il y a une distinction parfois subtile, mais importante entre foi et superstition. La superstition consiste à voir des interventions extraordinaires et miraculeuses de Dieu en tout ce que nous ne pouvons pas expliquer. La foi consiste à croire que Dieu est notre père, qu'il est le maître de tout et de tous, et qu'en conséquence toutes les manifestations de sa création sont en définitive des manifestations de son amour.

4 August 2024 - 18th Sunday "B”

Ex 16:2...15; Eph 4:17-24; Jn 6:24-35

Homily

There is a sometimes subtle but important distinction between faith and superstition. Superstition consists in seeing extraordinary and miraculous interventions by God in everything we cannot explain. Faith consists in believing that God is our father, that he is the master of everything and everyone, and that consequently all the manifestations of his creation are ultimately manifestations of his love.

3 August 2024 -- Saturday of the ^17th week ‘B

Jer 26:11-16. 24; Matt 14, 1-12

Homily

This Gospel presents us with two men who are very different from each other. The first, John the Baptist, is a free man, without power or ambition, and therefore also without fear. The other is a man with a great deal of power in his hands, enslaved by his calculations and ambitions, and because of that constantly torn by fear.