1. Year B / Ordinary Time / Week 17 / Sunday (Rite of Acceptance @COTT)
    Readings: 2 Kings 4.42-44 / Psalm 144.10-11,15-16, 17-18 (R/v cf 16) / Ephesians 4.1-6 / John 6.1-15

    Sisters and brothers, have you ever tried to feed a baby animal, like a kitten or a puppy or a lamb?  You probably filled you hand with some food, and then extended it towards the animal.  You probably coaxed it, encouraging it with soothing words. You might have tried to move closer to feed it, then, waited patiently for it to come to you.

    Did you pay attention to how the animal approached you eventually? Probably, it crept  up to you cautiously. Maybe it circled around, looking at you, looking at the food in your open hand. Maybe it came up close, sniffed the food a bit, then withdrew, and then repeated these steps a few times. Then, maybe after some time, it came right up to you, tentatively taking some nibbles of the food, before eating out of your hand. 

    Maybe then you touched it, patted it, stroke its back. Maybe then, the both of you felt comfortable with each other.

    Have you ever wondered what allows the animal to reach this moment?  I’d like to suggest it is trust.  The animal's trust that it could come to you safely. That it could come because you would feed its hunger. Come to you because it sensed you would care for it. Come to you because it wanted to. Come because it trusted you.

    Isn’t this a bit like what our friends here on the RCIA journey have been doing thus far?  Whether they are seeking Baptism or full communion with the Catholic Church, they have glimpsed something of God and are seeking to know about more about God. They want to draw closer to God. Some may have stepped away, only to find that their desire for God draws them back here again.

    And so, they have all began their RCIA journey. They have come, I believe, because they trust God will meet them and draw them into fullness of life with him.

    Today’s Rite of Acceptance celebrates their trust to let God draw them closer to Himself. For the unbaptized, their trust is their ‘yes’ is to become catechumens preparing for Baptism. For the baptized from other Christian traditions , their trust is their ‘yes’ is to live the Christian faith more fully and truly as Catholics. Their ‘yes’ is their commitment to accomplishing these.

    What we must also celebrate  today is God’s trust in them to come to Him and to let Him lead them.

    This is why today’s Rite of Acceptance involves movement. Movement from outside that expresses their desire to say ‘yes’ to their entrance amongst us, and shortly to them standing in front of the altar and making their commitment to God with a firm ‘yes’. 

    And where will their ‘yes’, their trust, lead them to? Not to a place, but to the person of Jesus in whom God meets them as they come to Him.  Jesus who extends and opens his hands to feed them. Jesus who also enlarges his heart to embrace them and who offers his life to be their life. They come to Jesus who shows them the way to God and the fullness of life. 

    This is in fact the good news today’s gospel proclaims. Often, we focus on the miracle of the multiplication of the five loaves and two fish Jesus did. But there is a greater miracle at work: Jesus loving us and wanting us to live.

    We see this in how he feeds the multitude. He has done his work of preaching God and God’s love. He knows they hunger. He does not have to feed them, but he does because they really hunger for God. So, he makes real what he proclaimed as Good News about God: God loves by giving life.

    Feeding the multitude from what little is available is more than a miracle of multiplying to feed the hungry. It is more truly God’s gratuitous grace for us to live. Jesus’ actions expressed his unreserved love to provide God’s boundless abundance to all peoples, including you and me.

    Our friends in RCIA desire this grace to live with God.  This is why they are making their commitment to prepare well for next Easter when they will be baptised and received fully into the Catholic Church.

    What about us who come to Mass every Sunday, pray daily, serve others often and strive to live holy lives?  Do we desire God as fervently, as single-mindedly, as they do?

    Where their desire, and our desire too, will lead everyone to is Jesus. He alone fulfils the deep human longing in all of us to have enough. And if we are honest, to have enough and a little more.

    Today’s readings remind us that we will have enough, and, in fact, a little more than enough. We cannot accomplish this through our actions.  Only God’s good and gracious action gives us these always. The Lord fed the 100 people in the first reading and there was some left over. Jesus fed 5,000 and more in today’s gospel passage, and there was enough left over to fill 12 wicker baskets. Always enough, with a lot more left over. All of this is God’s loving, saving action, at work in our lives and for our wellbeing, which is what salvation also means.

    Haven’t we too received enough from God in our lives? Enough love each day to carry on with life? Enough forgiveness when reconciliation is needed? Enough laughter and joy when all seems dark and sad? Even enough mercy and hope to get us through un expected struggles and pains?  And in all these moments, weren’t there always a little more left over for us?  Isn’t God still doing all this in our lives today?

    Why would God do this? Simply because God knows our longing to believe in God, our yearning to live our faith in a manner worthy of the call we have received, and our striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace amongst us. All these make up the hope that is God’s call for us to be Christians, as our second reading reminds us.

    I believe our RCIA friends heard this call of God and have this hope. It gives them the trust to come and take the next steps today. I know the rest of us have also heard this call and we have this same hope. This is why we are here every Sunday at Eucharist: we trust God will meet us in our sinfulness, forgive us in mercy and make us better though his saving love.

    Isn’t this hope then the trust we need to have faith, and, more so, to live in faith? If our answer is ‘yes’, then, let us come like lambs to Jesus, our Good Shepherd. Come to him who wants to love and care for us. Come to him whose deepest desire is to save and uplift us.  Yes, let us come to Jesus for it is only “the hand of the Lord who can feed us and answer all our needs” (Responsorial Psalm 144.16).



    Preached at Church of the Transfiguration
    photo by john hunt (internet)



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  2. Year B / Ordinary Time / Week 16 / Sunday
    Readings: Jeremiah 23.1-6 / Psalm 23.1-3,3-4,5,6 (R/v 1) / Ephesians 2.13-18 / Mark 6.30-34


    The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
    In verdant pastures he gives me repose;
    beside restful waters he leads me;
    he refreshes my soul.

    We are all very familiar with these lines from Psalm 23. We proclaim them at Eucharist, sing them at funerals and pray them at retreats. No matter how often we encounter these lines, our familiarity with them goes much deeper: they echo our deepest longing for peace.

    We spend much of our everyday time looking for peace. When school is done, the younger ones amongst us put away their studies for some quiet and peace. During lunch breaks, some of us log off the computer, mute the handphone and turn the chair around for some peace of mind. And when death comes, we believe that our eternal rest is God’s peace. Yes, we all want peace.

    In today’s gospel story, Jesus’ disciples are in need of peace. They have returned from their first mission trip. They are exhilarated and eager to share stories of healings, exorcisms, and effective teaching, and may be, even some stories of failure, rejection, and hardship. But they are exhausted. 

    Sensing this, Jesus recognises their need for solitude: some space for peace, some time of peace. Jesus attends to their needs as a good shepherd does. He calls them to “come away to a deserted place to rest.” There is an urgency; the crowds are gathering around them. Jesus’ invitation is tender and longing; all he wants is for them to rest, to recuperate, to be at peace.

    Haven’t you and I also experienced Jesus leading us into the peace of God’s presence, as only the Good Shepherd can? 

    It could have been when we needed quiet to grieve a beloved’s death. Or, when we yearned to give thanks for a job well done. Or, when we longed for a retreat’s solitude. I believe we have all experienced God’s peace in such times. That elusive peace we sought, we needed, and we had to have to carry on our Christian pilgrimage.

    But peace is not the same as tranquility. 

    Tranquility is lying on the ground, enchanted by the countless twinkling stars. Tranquility is standing at the lapping water’s edge and losing ourselves in the expansive horizon at sunset. Tranquility could even be the stillness we experience as we fall into the enveloping silence. In all these moments of tranquility, the stresses, insecurities, and anxieties of life fade away; we can let go and we know all will be fine.

    In this respect, tranquility isn’t bad. We need it. In fact, our busy, anxious life will be calmer, healthier and happier from disciplined tranquility and stillness, which we experience in prayer and in retreat. 

    If tranquility isn’t the same thing as peace, what kind of peace is Jesus calling his disciples to? I would like to suggest that we can glimpse an answer by reflecting on our exchange of peace each Sunday at Eucharist. 

    Like you, I’ve long associated the “Peace be with you” that I say as a wish for another to have tranquility, a greeting to calm another, a hope that your stresses would slow down. 

    In liturgy, however “Peace be with you” symbolises the restoration of ourselves to right relationship with God and with one another. We anoint each other in this exchange for the community we will become in communion, which we behold in the Eucharist: the Body of Christ. 

    And isn’t this the peace Jesus’ message proclaims: that we are the one body, the one community of God on earth as it is in heaven through salvation? Jesus’ peace is therefore a peace that restores. It is not a retreat into tranquility and quiet stillness. 

    In our gospel story, Jesus leads his disciples away to be by themselves and to rest. They didn’t go away seeking peace, as we understand it. They just went seeking quiet. And in the quiet, Jesus gave them peace that refreshes, reenergises and repairs individual and community. This peace restores. 

    Jesus himself received this same peace from God. Whenever Jesus went away to be alone, to pray, or to rest in the gospels, God gave him peace that restored him for the mission. Christian peace is not just about being quiet before God; it is also about being commissioned to bring about God’s kingdom. 

    We know this is the work of peace from how the gospel story ends: Jesus called the disciples away to peace, but the demands of other people for peace interrupted them. Jesus was with them in the quiet. But when he disembarked and he saw the crowds, he cared for them with compassion. The disciples learnt from Jesus how God’s peace that restores is indeed the same peace that must be bestowed on all who seek peace. 

    Like the disciples, we would be wise to learn from Jesus’ example. Then, we will know that God’s peace will truly give us fullness of life only when we do as Jesus does. Today Jesus calls us again to go and do what he does as the Good Shepherd: to restore all in God’s ways and into God’s embrace. 

    When we dare to share God’s peace with others, we become more like Jesus the good shepherd to one another, but, most of all, to the last, the lost and the least. 

    We would be most Christian then when we listen and attend to our family and friends who seek our understanding, to the increasing have-nots in our midst who cry out for our assistance, and to those whom we have discriminated against and who demand we stop as they plead “no more.” 

    Jesus’ peace is therefore not the sound of tranquility, or respite from pain, or even the absence of suffering. It is peace for justice. 

    Such peace must be disturbing: it is like a sword cutting through the petty, oppressive and hurtful ways we sometimes practice towards one another at home, in school and at work. Jesus’ peace is indeed holy disturbance. And Jesus commands that we share this peace. Why? Because we can then better restore the souls of others and the wellbeing of our world in God’s love and into God’s life.

    Very soon, we will exchange the sign of peace. Today, we learn that it cannot be about words we say or handshakes, nods and hugs we make. No, the exchange of peace we will share must be our concrete commitment to shepherd one another into God’s peace that restores us all. 

    Will you and I accept this commitment? Will we then express it by saying “Peace be with you” wholeheartedly and mean it?

    I believe we can. We can because 
    the Lord is our shepherd; we shall not want.
    In verdant pastures he gives us repose;
    beside restful waters he leads us; he refreshes our souls.

    Give us this peace, Lord Jesus, 
    so that we can say to each other and to all, 
    “Yes, peace be with you and with your spirit,”
    for God’s love always refreshes, and eternally restores.




    (inspired in part by David Henson, "Peace is Not Tranquility")


    This homily was first preached on 19 July 2015

    Preached at St Ignatius Church, Singapore
    photo: www.modernmedievalsim.blogspot.com 
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  3. Year B / Ordinary Time / Week 15/ Sunday
    Readings: Amos 7.12-15 / Psalm 84.9ab and 10, 11-12, 13-14 (R/v 8) / Ephesians 1.3-14 / Mark 6.7-13


    Dear sisters and brothers, have you ever travelled light, carrying less than you thought you required, only to find that you needed more?

    Like when you visited a friend overseas and had to borrow a sweater, or when you worked overseas and needed those work files you left behind, or perhaps when you hiked over the weekend and could do with more food and water for the climb.

    Traveling light is a theme in today’s gospel.

    We hear it in Jesus’ very first instruction to “Take nothing for the journey, but a walking stick—no food, no sack, no money in their belts. To wear sandals but not a second tunic”. 

    Usually with this gospel we focus more on the themes of Jesus sending his disciples on mission and on his instructions about handling acceptance and rejection, success and failure. 

    Today, let us contemplate Jesus’ instruction to take nothing for the journey, that is, to travel light through life and on mission. 

    Doesn’t this instruction seem odd, even counter-intuitive, to ensuring success? Yet Jesus insists that his disciples travel light. And yes, their mission does succeed: they preached repentance, drove out demons and cured the sick. So, what are we to learn from this?

    Some good lessons for Christian life. Like this lesson on kindness I learnt during my recent travel to New York City for a summer school programme. After walking around the city one weekend morning, I entered Dig Inn, a café serving seasonal American food, mostly vegetables, from local farmers. I picked out the vegetables, protein and starch I wanted to fill my lunch bowl with. At the checkout, the cashier asked me to pay using a card. The café had gone cashless to be efficient since my last visit.  As a religious, I have no credit or debit card. I had cash only. The cashier insisted: “Pay by card”. I could see my lunch disappearing, my hunger growing. A staff member of Dig Inn, Bernard, spoke to the cashier. Then he smiled at me, shook my hand and said, “Lunch is on me”. Perhaps, you’ve experienced similar acts of surprising kindness and care by strangers by loved ones. 

    I’ve thought about Bernard a lot as I prepared this homily. Why would he care for me, a stranger? What made him sacrifice his own lunch to feed me? Could it be his values? Was it his upbringing? Could he be paying forward the charity he had received before? Was it his religion? 

    I will never know the reason. But I am certain of a fundamental Christian truth Bernard’s kindness revealed: that God made humankind to be good. To be kind and gracious, to be compassionate and generous towards one another. To be good towards one another and for each other.

    To be good because this is how God is in our lives. God is good. And Jesus revealed this goodness of God in his life, through his ministry and by dying to save all. This was Jesus mission. This is also our mission as Christians: to do good to others and to save them.  But we can only accomplish this mission for all by creating space for God to do this good through us. 

    This is why traveling light, or taking nothing for the mission, as Jesus instructs, is indeed today’s good news. It is God’s wisdom for us.  Sound wisdom for us to live purposefully as Christians. Wisdom that helps us become more and more like God who is good. Wisdom that frees us to act like Jesus on mission, and that his disciples learnt by traveling light.

    If we imbibe and practise this wisdom, we will free ourselves even more to do God’s work. Free ourselves from 
    our fixations with having right knowledge and skills that trap us from volunteering for ministry,  
    the overemphasis  on  holiness, piety and obedience that scare many from letting Jesus lead us into God’s saving work, and
    our fears and shame that we are not good enough and that imprison us from being Jesus’ collaborators on mission.
    This wisdom frees us because it invites us to depend totally on God, so that we can travel far in life and faith, on mission and in service. 

    I believe we can be confident that we can put Jesus’ instruction into practice. St Paul tells us why this confidence is ours in our second reading. Simply put, it is because we are “in him”. Paul uses this phrase “in him” repeatedly to remind us that it is in him, in Christ, in Jesus, that we can indeed let go and let God lead us in life, in faith and on mission because: 
    In Him who is Christ, God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing. 
    In him, God has chosen us before the world began. 
    In him who is love, God has destined us to be his adopted children.
    In him, we have redemption and forgiveness.
    In him, we know the wisdom and insight of God’s mystery in our lives: to save us
    In him, you and I have heard this truth, the gospel of our salvation, so that we might exist for the praise of God’s glory. 
    To hear the truth of our salvation and to praise the glory of God. This was Jesus’ mission. This is also our mission.

    Why does God choose us to do this? For the same reason he chose Amos. In the first reading, God did not choose him because he had been educated or trained to be a prophet. God simply chose him and said, “Go, prophesy”. And God chooses you and I for the same reason.  Not because we have theologically trained or are formed for pastoral ministry. Not because we are pious or devout. Not even if we are obedient and God fearing. No, God chooses us because God simply wants us to be his prophets. 

    Others, including the Church, may regard us not ready or ill-suited or unworthy for mission. But God calls us because God desires no one else to continue Jesus’ mission. As St Teresa of Avila reminds us: “Christ has no body on earth but ours”. We are to be Christ to others. This is what Christian means: bearing the name of Christ. This is what Communion does: transform us into the Body of Christ.

    This is why traveling light matters: it enables us to make room for God in our lives. Necessary room for God to labor in us and with us for Christ-like work for all. Christ-like work: 
    like the many Bernards who make real God’s compassion and kindness in our lives.
    like those in Chiang Rai, Mosul and on the US-Mexico border who care for, rescue and save others from harm, injury and death because God values life.
    like those who forgive the unfaithful and sinful among family and friends to bring them home like God always does. 
    like those who overcome hatred, prejudice and discrimination to accept and welcome the divorce and unwed, gays and lesbians, criminals and migrant refugees because God’s love embraces all.
    like those who feed the hungry, seek out the lost, comfort the afflicted, and free the burdened because God’s life is for all.
    Some of these acts are extraordinary. Many however are everyday acts you and I are already doing for one another. 

    Our everyday kindness, compassion, forgiveness, care, and love. All of these are the simple ways we are already witnessing to others about God’s goodness working in the world. This is how we are prophets, in deeds, more than in words, to all. I believe we are able to do these because we have created room for God in our lives.

    Today, we hear again Jesus' simple instruction, “take nothing for the journey”. He is not repeating himself; he is in fact inviting us to travel light so that we can create even more space within ourselves for God.  More space to let God direct our lives. More space for God to be with us. More space for us to let God be God to us. More space so we can be who God wants us to be for others: God’s prophets announcing God’s goodness.

    Now isn’t it worthwhile to travel light so that God can travel far with us for the good of all?




    Preached at the Church of the Transfiguration
    photo: www.procaffenation.com/hitchhiking (Internet)

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  4. This is the final homily I preached at the 2018 Lasallian Buttimer Institute Summer Programme.

    Graduation Mass for Buttimer Class 2018
    Readings: Acts 12.1-11/ Psalm 33.2-4,4-5, 6-7, 8-9 (R/v cf. 5) / 2 Timothy 4.6-8, 17-18 / Matthew 16.13-19

    Dear sisters and brothers, have you ever considered what gives you the confidence to sign off on a student’s report card, on a colleague’s year-end appraisal, on the school budget, on a job well done, or on the right person you think you’ve found to hire?

    As we end our time at Buttimer, I would like to invite us to consider the signatures we make.

    Signatures because these are associated with graduation certificates that mark the end of a time of learning, even as one begins a new phase in life. And this evening we celebrate the graduation of my classmates and I in Buttimer 3.

    Signatures too because our gospel reading has to do with Jesus sending his disciples  to go forth to teach the nations, to baptise them, and to make them his own.  Here is Jesus signing off on his disciples – signing off on their worthiness, their readiness for mission. 

    Signatures, I suggest, then, because we must consider how our time in this year’s Buttimer has indeed been one of preparing all of us better for our own Lasallian mission, especially those of us in Buttimer 3 who began the programme in Moraga, California, three years ago.

    Let us consider our time at Buttimer using today’s readings that are about how God works in humankind. They offer us three thoughts to help us appreciate how God has been labouring in our lives throughout Buttimer.

    First, Buttimer called us into God’s holy presence.

    We began each morning, each class, each prayer with John Baptist de la Salle’s call to remember that we are in the holy presence of God.  What our Founder asked of his Brothers, he asked of his students and teachers since the work of the Institute began, and we, like all Lasallians today, continue doing the same when we gather to work, to pray and to play.

    Our response to de la Salle’s call echo Jesus’ disciples.  From the very first time he called them, and in each time he revealed God’s presence to them, they said “yes” to Jesus’ invitation to enter into God’s holy presence.  God’s holy presence that they experienced when he healed the sick and preached to the seekers, when he forgave the sinner and reconciled the lost, when he lifted up the downtrodden and transformed the lives of all the abandoned. 

    God’s holy presence that they experienced most of all when Jesus died to save us all. This is who God is in our lives and how he acts for us. We hear this truth in our first reading: “God is my salvation,” Isaiah proclaims. 

    This is the same God de la Salle wanted his Brothers then and now, and  all Lasallians, to know. But, more than know, to enter more deeply into presence with. To enter and be more intimate with. To enter and to live more fully with. To enter, and in this presence to grow in confidence that we are loved. 

    To be in the holy presence of God is not to be displaced from one space to another,  as it is always to enter in the ever present relationship with a God who I can trust is my strength and defense, and so I do not have to be afraid. Haven’t everything we learnt, experienced and prayed about in Buttimer revealed this God to us too?

    Second, Buttimer helped us to contemplate the mystery of God in our lives.

    The Gospels tell the story of Jesus forming his disciples to love, to live, to serve, and to be saved. By washing feet at the Last Supper he showed them the humble, selfless way to love God and love neighbour. By dying on the cross, he manifest the fullness of this love: to be sacrificed totally and to be lived fully to the end.

    This is the kind of love the Good Shepherd of our Psalm has.  Everything the Good Shepherd does speak of this love. Leading the weary to green pastures and quiet waters to renew and refresh. Guiding lost along right paths. Encouraging the fearful and ashamed through dark valleys. Providing a banquet for the persecuted and outcast. Anointing the beloved with oil. Gathering all into his home, not house. All these speak of love divine and love excelling, love to care and love to save. 

    De la Salle calls us to share this kind of love with our students, our colleagues and all we meet. He calls us to shepherd to them, to be older brothers and sisters to our students, to be guardian angels for all.  But we can  only give the love we have. 

    Hasn’t Buttimer blessed us with such love?  Such love through friendships made, through learning that has enlightened, through faith lives that are transformed, through the challenges that make us better, through unexpected goodness that has blessed us and surprising hopes gleaned that encourage us onward.

    If we have, and I believe we have, then we are richer to share.  And richer most of all because we have glimpsed more clearly who God was to de la Salle and how God worked in his life:
    • God, who led he forward in stages, but surely to unite himself Godself and Jesus’ saving mission of making children whole again through education.
    • God, who his pedagogy called teacher to proclaim and the students to know.
    • God, who his spirituality invites all to embrace it so as to procure the salvation of all souls.
    Third, Buttimer convicted, or formed us, better for our Lasallian mission.

    Jesus formed his disciples for life with God through lives of service. He accompanied them to know him, to love him and to follow him. He formed their hearts, made it big-hearted for God and for all. Even when they failed Jesus in death, he returned to them as their risen Christ with peace that forgave and love that counted them still good enough and ready for mission.

    I’d like to think that de la Salle learnt to see the first Brothers with the same love. Though not educated and skilled teachers and though they challenged him to sacrifice his riches to be like them and with them for the work, they taught him to value them as God’s providence for the mission. And because de la Salle did so, loving them as a father and inspiring them as a brother, he attracted and convicted more to join the mission.

    I’d like to think something like what happened to Jesus’ disciples and de la Salle’s brothers, has happened to us in Buttimer. Our conviction for the mission has grown stronger. Let us then depart to serve with joy, to minister with gentleness, to work without anxiety, to pray always to God as our second reading encourages us to do.

    So what has happened to us in Buttimer?  We have been transformed. Transformed because our time here has called us into God’s holy presence, allowed us to contemplate God’s mystery at work, and convicted us even more for the mission. 

    Transformed because three thoughts are really movements that echo de la Salle’s dynamics of interior prayer. If this prayer forms us from within for God and for the work of salvation all of us are called to, then, these movements are the graced ways Buttimer has blessed us to know God working in de la Salle’s more clearly, to love this God more intimately, and to follow this God more closely. This is our transformation; we are better for it and for the mission ahead of us. And so, we go home transformed in some way. 

    Jesus saw transformation in his disciples, as de la Salle saw it in his first Brothers

    Our transformation is what gives Jesus, more than anyone else, the confidence to sign off on our lives, like he did with de la Salle once, and that he wishes to do today. Sign off because we have been better formed in his image and to continue his work. Formed most distinctly as Lasallian because here at Buttimer he has formed in the spirit of de la Salle.

    A signature is in fact an imprint. The tip of the pen presses into the paper as one signs on it. Today we hear again so clearly what we know so dearly: the truth of Jesus’ imprint on our lives:  “I am with you always, to the end”

    This how he signs off on us today. With his promise to abide in us and with us always. With his hope in all the good we will do with Jesus to save the world.

    There is then no other human response we can be properly make as Lasallians than this and only this: “yes, live Jesus in our hearts, forever.”


    Preached at Buttimer Institute, Manhattan College, New York City
    Photo: from Internet: www.affinityonefcu.org


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