Father Weerackoon’s Homilies and Talks

30th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Too often, we easily become blind to what God is doing in our lives because we only see the frustrations we encountered, the hurtful things others say, the lack of care from those around us, and our own sins. So let us pray like Bartimaeus: "Master, I want to see" so that we see the kind affirmation a coworker gave us, an insight from our spiritual reading, the joy of a loved one’s presence, and so that we see God's unending love.

29th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Jesus knows what it is to be tired, exasperated, angry, sad, and troubled because He is true man. We too can unite our stress, pain, and sorrow to Jesus because He is true God and our high priest who never fails to help us, but also because Jesus is true man and He knows what it is to experience it, because we do not have a high priest who is able to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has similarly been tested in every way.

28th Sunday of Ordinary Time

When God asks us to let go of a sin, addiction, or attachment, He looks at us with such love and He will give us a hundred times more in this life and eternal life in the age to come. And if God does take anything away, it's only because God wants to give you so much more.

27th Sunday of Ordinary Time

The opposite of addiction is communion. Beginning this month of October, which is the month of the Holy Rosary, begin by praying the Rosary each day with your family, because prayer in the family will help overcome addictions and help us to live in communion with God, with our family, and with each other. The family that prays together, stays together.

Solemnity of the Archangels

The devil loves to distort the truth and convince us that we are alone of that God won't help us. But God sends us the archangels to strengthen us, to heal us, and to defend us to cast into Satan and all the evil spirits, because there is no one who is like God.

25th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Jesus took a child in His arms, held the child, and pressed the child close to Him. Sometimes, we forget how valuable we are to God, but if we allow ourselves to be held by Jesus and if we allow Him to press us close to Him, they each of us will remember: God values me.

24th Sunday of Ordinary Time

God has given each of unique gifts and talents to build up His kingdom. If we simply devise our own plans and follow our own desires, we’re like the Peter who stands in front of Jesus, wishing to do what we want so that we can save our life, but we’ll ultimately lose it. But if we’re humble and follow Christ and His plan for us, then we're like the Peter who followed Jesus, meaning we’ll lose our life for Christ’s sake and the gospel, and thus save it.

23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time

Jesus pulled the deaf man aside so the deaf man could be alone with Jesus. Our lives too are defined by those intimate moments when we come before Christ, when we put ourselves in His presence and we listen to Him.

22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time

If we want to overcome the things that defile us - our judgmental thoughts, our lustful thoughts, our prideful thoughts, our selfish thoughts, then we must ask God to fill our hearts with His love and thank God for specific qualities He has given others so we come to appreciate what He's done in them. Then, we will be doers of the word, and not hearers only.

21st Sunday of Ordinary Time

Jesus's disciples left Him because of what He taught. But His words are true because all the money, success, pleasure, and things of this world can't bring us happiness. Only the Lord can, because only He has the words of eternal life.