Father Weerackoon’s Homilies and Talks

14th Sunday of Ordinary Time

God showed how important the Jews who returned from exile were to Him, as God is compared to a mother who comforts her child. The way we'll begin to make God a priority in our lives is by recognizing how important we are to God.

Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul

If Peter or Paul asked others in their lifetime: "Who do you say that I am?", people could say: "You're a denier" or "You're a persecutor." But even though Peter denied Christ three times and Paul persecuted the Church, Jesus transformed these man. Christ. So too will He use our own personalities – with all our weaknesses and struggles – to bring other souls to Him, and if you allow Jesus to do so, then when you ask Him: "Who do you say that I am?", Jesus will respond by saying: "You are a saint."

Corpus Christi

Jesus asks the apostles to bring whatever food they can find to Him because He wants to receive a “yes” from us that we are willing to give to Him whatever we have, however little it might be so He can unite and marry Himself to us. And when we ourselves to Him as a gift, we'll realize that God wants to give us so much more.

Trinity Sunday

The whole mystery of the Trinity – the very central mystery of our faith – is that God is a family, and we are meant to join it. And so while God could have made the perfect world, He didn’t. Instead, He did something better. He rested on the seventh day so that He could be with us because God delights in you.

Pentecost

The Holy Spirit transformed the Apostles who were buried in the upper room on Easter Sunday evening so that they could fearlessly proclaim the gospel. That same Holy Spirit will open our minds to see the meaning of our past failures and transform them to bring good out of them.

7th Sunday of Easter

Right before entering His agony in the Garden, Jesus prays to the Father saying: "Father, they are your gift to me" because you are that gift. And if we recognize we are the Father's gift to Jesus, how could we ever turn down the Father’s gift of His Son to us in the Eucharist?

Ascension

The power of today’s feast of the Ascension shows us what true sacrifice is, because Christ’s sacrifice in time is brought into eternity where He offers Himself unceasingly to the Father. And the Ascension shows us where our destiny lies - in heaven above. So do we think about heaven and do we get excited to go to heaven? Ask yourself what's the first thing you think about when you wake up in the morning, and you'll find your answer.

6th Sunday of Easter

The very peace Jesus grants us His word - which is a sword that pierces our hearts. And the more we allow Jesus into every aspect of our lives by reading the word of God, the more we open ourselves up to the healing He wants to grant us and to remove anything in our lives that is a barrier that’s keeping us from Jesus. 

5th Sunday of Easter

Jesus is drawn to us in our sufferings because He knows the deeper pains in our hearts. So like Jesus, instead of focusing on the hurts, we need to focus on loving so that we allow Christ to enter into our sufferings and abide in God's promise that He will dwell with us and we will be His people, and that God will wipe every tear from our eyes.

4th Sunday of Easter

There are a lot voices in the world and there are a lot of things we often reach out to and grasp at. There’s a vast array of opinions on how to be successful, how to be happy, how to be calm. But there’s only one voice that truly matters and there’s only one set hands in which we are safe, sustained, and loved. And that's the voice and the hands of the Good Shepherd promises: My sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me because no one can take them out of my hand.