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HOMILIES
Deacon Raymond Chan’s Homilies
December 2025
- Fourth Sunday of Advent A – My Personal Fiat
- Third Sunday of Advent A – The Search for Truth
- Second Sunday of Advent A – The Danger of Detached Worship
November 2025
- First Sunday of Advent A – The Two Advents of Jesus
- The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe – Jesus Christ, Our King
- Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time C – By Patient Endurance We Save Our Lives
- Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran – Celebrate Being Church
- The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls) – The Reality of Purgatory
October 2025
- Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – How to Pray
- Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – Merciful and Loving Father
- Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time C – The Danger of Spiritual Pride
September 2025
- Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – Who Might be the Lazarus I am Called to Serve?
- Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant
- The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross – Find Your Personal Cross
- Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time C – Forgive and Forget
August 2025
- Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time C – Humility–Living Under His Mercy
- Twenty-first Sunday of Ordinary Time C – Embracing Our Christianity
- Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – With Eyes Focused on Christ
- Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – I have Decided to Follow Jesus, No Turning Back
- Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time C – Vanity and Vanity, All Things Are Vanity
July 2025
- Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – PRAYER
- Sixteenth Sunday in ordinary Time C – There is Need of Only One Thing
- Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – Living the Law of Love
- Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – A Church with a Mission
June 2025
- The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of the Lord – Behold the Lamb of God
- The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity – We Have Been Given the Life of the Trinity
- The Solemnity of Pentecost – Jesus’ Spirit will be with us Always
- The Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord – The Lord Ascends, His Power Descends
May 2025
- Sixth Sunday of Easter C – Protecting Our Culture
- Fifth Sunday of Easter C – The New Jerusalem
- Fourth Sunday of Easter C – They washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb
- Third Sunday of Easter C – Life’s Charcoal Fires
April 2025
- Second Sunday of Easter C (Divine Mercy Sunday) – “Blessed are those who have not seen but believe.”
- Passion (Palm) Sunday Year C – The Triumphant Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem
- Fifth Sunday of Lent – Blessed Are the Compassionate
March 2025
- Fourth Sunday of Lent C – The Value of Our Inheritance
- Third Sunday in Lent C – God’s Backup Plans Are Always Better
- Second Sunday of Lent C – Climb every Mountain, Ford every Stream, Follow every Rainbow…Dont you ever Give Up !
- First Sunday of Lent C – Forty Days Towards the Eucharist
- Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – For From the Fullness of the Heart, the Mouth Speaks
February 2025
- Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – The Christian and Hatred
- Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – The Dignity of Man, Beatitudes on the Plain
- Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C – We are all Called to be Fishers of Men
- The Presentation of the Lord – He Shared Fully in our Humanity
January 2025
- Third Sunday in Ordinary Time C – We are Not a Number, but an Integral Part of Christ’s Body
- Second Sunday in Ordinary Time C – Do Whatever He Tells You
- Feast of Baptism of the Lord – This is my Children, my Beloved, in whom I am well Pleased
- The Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord – Be a Wise Man or a Wise Woman
December 2024
- The Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph – The Family, the Heart of the Domestic Church
- Fourth Sunday of Advent C – Feast of the Winter Visitation
- Third Sunday of Advent C – How can we Keep from Singing for Joy!
- Second Sunday of Advent C – Mountains and Valleys
November 2024
- Solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe – Lord Jesus, may your kingdom come!!
- The Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time B – We Do Not Need to Know When the End Will Come
- The Thirty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time B – God Prefers Generosity from the Heart
- The Thirty First Sunday in Ordinary Time B – Which commandment is the first of all?
October 2024
- The Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – Will Jesus Call us by Name and Heal our blindness?
- The Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – Saints Weren’t Perfect! If you Feel Down in the Dumps of Sin, Pick Yourself up and Start Being a Saint Today Again
- The Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time B – God Is Demanding Because He Loves Us
- The Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time B – For the Married, Remember Husband and Wife Are “One Flesh.”
September 2024
- Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – The Grace of Our Eldads and Medads
- The Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – “There’s More than one Way to be the Greatest and be a Champion.”
- The Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time B – Ephphatha, Hear and Proclaim
- The Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time B – Why we join a Religion and go to Church?
August 2024
- The Twenty First Sunday in Ordinary Time B – Our Faith Matures Through Testing
- The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – The Eucharist Fulfills Christ’s Promise
- The Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – The Gift of Faith Gives us Access to Eternal Life, and the Eucharist, Nourishes Eternal Life
- The Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – We Christians “Do not Work for Food that Perishes, but for the Food that Endures for Eternal Life.”
July 2024
- The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – God Can Work Wonders from Our Poor Efforts
- The Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – Prayer and Action, The Two Poles of Christian Life
- The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – Every Christian is called to be Prophets
- The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – God’s Power is Made Perfect in our Weakness
June 2024
- The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – Sickness and Death
- The Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – Conqueror of Chaos
- The Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time B – We Need to be Strong Members of the Church, and God will Work the Miracle of His Growth
- The Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – Have the Courage to Embrace and Fulfill His Will here on Earth No Matter what Obstacles we may Face
May 2024
- The Solemnity of The Most Holy Trinity – The Great Revelation of the Church
- The Solemnity of Pentecost – Pentecost, the Beginning of the New Era
- The Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord – The Mystery that Summons us
- Sixth Sunday of Easter B – Love the Heart of Christianity is a many Splendored Thing
April 2024
- Fifth Sunday of Easter – I am the True Vine, and my Father is the Vine Grower, He takes away every Branch in me that does not Bear Fruit, and every one that does he Prunes so that it Bears more Fruit
- Fourth Sunday of Easter B – I am the Good Shepherd, Says the Lord; I know my Sheep, and Mine Know Me
- Third Sunday of Easter B – The Peace of the Resurrected Christ Is What We Need
- Divine Mercy Sunday – You never know how much you Really Believe anything until its Truth or Falsehood becomes a Matter of Life and Death to you
March 2024
- The Solemnity of the Resurrections of the Lord – “I am the Resurrection and the Life. Do you Believe this?“
- Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion – Which Victory are we Celebrating?
- Fifth Sunday of Lent B – The Purpose of our Daily Work is to do His Fathers Will
- Fourth Sunday of Lent B – Whoever Lives the Truth Comes to the Light
- Third Sunday of Lent B – Jesus Brings us in His Person Cleansing from Sin, True Light, and New Life
February 2024
- Second Sunday of Lent B – Faith, Hope, Love
- First Sunday of Lent B – Lord, Teach us your Paths; Show Sinners the Way
- Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – If You Wish, You Can Make Me Clean
- Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – Merciful God Hear my Prayers and Heal my Wounds
January 2024
- Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time B – Teaching with Authority
- Third Sunday in Ordinary Time B – The Wonder of Gods Mercy
- Second Sunday in Ordinary Time B – Come and See
- The Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord – The Journey
December 2023
- The Feast of The Holy Family – Being a Holy Family
- Fourth Sunday of Advent B – He has Cast Down the Mighty from their Thrones and has Lifted up the Lowly
- Third Sunday of Advent B – Rejoice in the Lord
- Second Sunday of Advent B – Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye, My People Says Your God
- First Sunday of Advent B – Keep Awake, be Alert
November 2023
- The Solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe – The Type of Kingdom
- Thirty-Third-Sunday in Ordinary Time A – Developing His Given Talents
- Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time A – Using Time Wisely, we Know Neither the Day nor the Hour the Bridegroom will Come
- Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time A – The Challenge to Be who we are, Catholic
October 2023
- Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – What is the Greatest of All the Laws?
- Twenty Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – To Caesar what’s Caesar and to God what is God’s
- Twenty Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – We are all invited to God’s Feast of Rich Food and Choice Wines in His Kingdom
- Twenty Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time A – Caring for the Vineyard
- Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – Walk our Talk, Real Faith Requires Real Action
September 2023
- Twenty Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – Jesus Christ Is Extraordinarily Generous
- Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – The Lord is Kind and Merciful, Slow to Anger, and Rich in Compassion
- Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time A – Do Not Treat them as Enemies but Warn them as Believers
- Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time A – Do Not Conform Yourselves To This Age, But Be Transformed By The Renewal Of Your Mind
August 2023
- Twenty-first Sunday of Ordinary Time A – The One Who Holds the Keys
- Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – Never, Ever Give Up On Hope, Never Doubt, Never Tire, And Never Become Discouraged.
- Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – Only Christ Can Save Us from Life’s Storms
- Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord – Our Part in Jesus’s Transfiguration
July 2023
- Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – Those Who Seek, Always Find
- Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – Weeds Among the Wheat
- Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – The sower is dependable. Trust the sower. Trust the seed. Be good soil.
- Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – On Being a Joyful Christian
- Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us
June 2023
- Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – “Do not be afraid, I am with you; do not be anxious for I am your God”
- Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time A – Father’s Care and Love
- Solemnity of the Body and Blood of the Lord – Reverence for the Eucharist
- Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity A – Knowledge leads to mystery, and mystery leads to knowledge.
May 2023
- The Solemnity of Pentecost A – Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.http://The Solemnity of Pentecost A – Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.
- Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord A – Tell the World that Jesus Lives
- Sixth Sunday of Easter A – “And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”
- Fifth Sunday of Easter A – “I go to prepare a place for you. … I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.”
April 2023
- Fourth Sunday of Easter – I am the gate for the sheep. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture
- Third Sunday of Easter – “Were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?” Pilgrimages
- Second Sunday of Easter – Leaping into the Arms of Divine Mercy
- Easter Sunday for Year ABC – ‘As Christ was raised from the dead by the Father’s glory, we too’ are called ‘to live a new life’
- Palm Sunday A – From Hosanna to the Son of David to Crucify Him, Crucify Him
March 2023
- Fifth Sunday of Lent A – “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.”
- Fourth Sunday of Lent A- “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life
- Third Sunday of Lent A – I am thirsty
- Second Sunday of Lent Year A – This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased_ listen to him
February 2023
- First Sunday of Lent A – And lead us not into Temptation, but deliver us from Evil, Amen
- Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time – “And Jesus said ‘Love Thy enemies’”
- Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – _I came not to abolish the law and the prophets, but to fulfill them
- Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – Be the salt of the earth and light of the world, the keys to the Kingdom
January 2023
- Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time A – Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty
- Third Sunday in Ordinary Time A – _The Kingdom of God is at hand
- Second Sunday in Ordinary Time A – Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the World
- The Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord – All people would be co-heirs of the Grace of Christ.
- Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God – Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.
December 2022
- The Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord, Christmas – Joy to the World the Lord has come
- Fourth Sunday of Advent A – The Call to Be a Christian
- Third Sunday of Advent A – The Church Is the Evidence for Joyful Hope
- Second Sunday of Advent Repent, Live into God’s Dream with Hope
November 2022
- First Sunday of Advent A – Remembering God’s Time During Our Time
- Thirty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe – The Paradox of Christ’s Kingship
- Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time C – He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end
- Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time C – All souls go to Heaven
- Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time C – He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end
October 2022
- Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time C – Christ’s Mission and also Church Mission, Seeking and Saving What Was Lost
- Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – Jesus, I believe in your love for me. Have mercy on me, a sinner.
- Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – Pray always without becoming weary
- Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – Gratitude is the best Attitude and the Virtue of Joy
- Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time C – The Power of Faith
September 2022
- Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – The Church’s Mission, the Poor
- Twenty- Fifth Sunday in Ordination Time C – For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.
- Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – God’s True Opinion of Sinners
- Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time C – “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, … and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple”.
August 2022
- Twenty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time C – Conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved… Humble yourself… and you will find favour with God.
- Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time C – We Must STRIVE to enter by the narrow gate for Salvation
- Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing
- Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – Be prepared to serve for the return of our Master
July 2022
- Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time C – Vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!
- 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 23/24 – Year C – The Lord’s Prayer in Luke
- 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 9/10 – Year C – The Story of the Good Samaritan
- 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 2/3 – Year C – We’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy Down in our heart
June 2022
- 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time – June 25/26 – Year C – The Cost of Discipleship
- The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of the Lord – June 19/20 – Year C – Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb
- The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity – June 11/12 – Year C – In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen
- Pentecost Sunday – June 4/5 – Year C – The Inauguration of Church’s Universal Mission
May 2022
- Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord – May 28/29 – Year C – Why do you stand looking up toward heaven?
- 6th Sunday of Easter – May 21/22 – Year C – Every Christian soul is a Temple where God truly dwells
- 5th Sunday of Easter – May 14/15 – Year C – I give you a new commandment, that you love one another
- 4th Sunday of Easter – May 7/8 – Year C – Hearing the Voice of the Good Shepherd
April 2022
- 3rd Sunday of Easter – April 30/May 1 – Year C – Do you love me? If you do, then Feed my sheep!
- 2nd Sunday of Easter – April 23/24 – Year C – Feast of Divine Mercy – My Lord and my God
- Easter Sunday the Resurrection of the Lord – April 17 – Year C – Be Easter People, Practice Resurrection
- 2nd Sunday of Easter – April 23/24 – Year C – Feast of Divine Mercy – My Lord and my God
- 5th Sunday of Lent – April 2/3 – Year C – God always Gives Us Another Chance
March 2022
- 4th Sunday of Lent – March 26/27 – Year C – Rejoice and be Christ’s Ambassadors
- 3rd Sunday of Lent – March 19/20 – Year C – Making the Best Use of His Time
- 2nd Sunday of Lent – March 12/13 – Year C – God’s Hidden Work in the World to fulfill His promise
- 1st Sunday of Lent – March 5/6 – Year C – Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
February 2022
- 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time – February 26/27 – Year C – Our Lord, through his grace, works that brokenness into something that gradually takes shape from here to eternity
- 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time – February 19/20 – Year C – “Do to others as you would have them do to you”
- 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time – February 12/13 – Year C – Sermon on the Plain: ‘Blessed are you who are poor, hungry, weep; and when people hate you, exclude you, revile you, and defame you.”
- 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time – February 5/6 – Year C – The Kind of Fishers God Calls Us to Be
January 2022
- 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time – January 29/30 – Year C – We were created to be loved, and to love
- 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – January 22/23 – Year C – Mission Statement, Jesus’ and ours
- 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – January 15/16 – Year C – Celebrating Marriage at Cana
- Feast of the Baptism of the Lord – January 8/9 – Year C – Baptism makes us a New Creation
- Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord – January 2 – Year C – The Wise are Still Seeking Him
- Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God – January 1 – Year C – The Baker Woman, with Jesus and Mary
December 2021
- Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph – December 26 – Year C
- Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord – December 25 – Year C – Pax Christi!
- 4th Sunday in Advent – December 18/19 – Year C – The Winter Visitation of Elizabeth, the Magnificat
- 3rd Sunday in Advent – December 11/12 – Year C – We are called to be joyful as we await the coming of the Lord
- 2nd Sunday in Advent – December 4/5 – Year C – A Good Work is Underway, “the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.“
- 1st Sunday of Advent – November 27/28 – Year C – Advent Means Getting Ready with Hope, not Just Waiting Around
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