29 May 2025 - Solemnity of the Ascension

Acts 1:1-11; Heb 9:24...10:23; Lk 24:46-53

Homily

          This is the fortieth day of our celebration of the Lord's Passover, which will conclude in ten days' time with the Solemnity of Pentecost. What we are celebrating today, on the feast of the Ascension, is just one facet of the same Paschal Mystery. Indeed, it was not until the 5th century that Christians began to celebrate the Ascension liturgically as a festival distinct from the Resurrection. In fact, these two feasts are simply two facets of the same mystery.

31 mai 2025 -- Visitation de Marie

So 3, 14-18; Rom 12, 9-16; Luc 1, 39-56

H O M É L I E

          Dans les deux premiers chapitres de son Évangile Luc nous introduit à tous les grands thèmes de son Évangile. Il manifeste sa connaissance profonde de l'Ancien Testament, y puisant un très grand nombre d'images qui lui servent dans ses récits hautement symboliques.

Le 29 mai 2025 – Solennité de l'Ascension

Ac 1, 1-11; He 9,24...10,23; Lc 24, 46-53

H O M É L I E

          Nous en sommes au quarantième jour de notre célébration de la Pâque du Seigneur, qui s’achèvera, dans dix jours, avec la solennité de la Pentecôte. Ce que nous célébrons aujourd’hui, en la fête de l’Ascension, n’est qu’une facette du même mystère pascal. Ce n’est d’ailleurs qu’à partir du 5^ème siècle que les Chrétiens commencèrent à célébrer liturgiquement l’Ascension comme fête distincte de la Résurrection. Ces deux fêtes sont en effet simplement deux facettes du même mystère.

May 28,2025 – Wednesday of the 6th week of Easter

Acts 17, 15. 22--18, 1; John 16, 12-15 

Homily 

          We have reached almost the end of that beautiful and long discourse of Jesus to His disciples at the Last Supper. He told them many things already, some of them profound and difficult. Now He tells them that He has still many more things to reveal to them, but they are not yet able to bear them. He also announces to them that the Spirit about whom He has been talking to them since the beginning, and whom He always call the “Spirit of Truth”, will guide them to all truth. There are two things that should be noticed in this promise. The first one is about the verb “to guide”.