13th Ordinary Sunday

THE CHOICE TO FOLLOW

We are advised: “Don’t enter Christianity under false pretences. Living as a Christian is living as Christ in the world.” Christianity is thus a matter of choice and not an accident. The First Reading reminds us of the unique relationship God has had with His people. God comes to the rescue of His people and gives them His blessings and graces. Saint Paul tells us that we are made right with God through Jesus Christ. He challenges us to be dead to sin and be alive to God. Jesus tells us, “One who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” Through this teaching of Jesus, he invites us to a profound union with him that may even lead us to take up the cross. We need to humble ourselves, let go of everything in this world, and cling to Jesus and him alone.

Liturgical materials for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1A8Tf1sTHUzi8esV99idAYVwBOLXLJhfz?usp=sharing

Response Hymn - https://youtu.be/QfO0cWE6mfM

12th Ordinary Sunday

CARE & PROTECTION OF THE LORD

The Readings of the day invite us to give testimony to the Lord before others without fear. When we stand for the Lord, we are sure to invite enemies. There will be hardships and hurdles. There will be oppositions and humiliations. However, we are assured of the care and protection of the Lord in the midst of every obstacle that comes on our path. In the First Reading, the prophet Jeremiah finds himself opposed to his foes and even to his friends. But he is confident of his safety under God’s protection. In the Gospel, Jesus exhorts his disciples not to fear anyone or anything in the world. Every single person is precious and of infinite value in the eyes of God. God is so intimately involved in our life that His knowledge of us is deep and minute. What is required of us is to place our full trust in him and proclaim him with courage and confidence. After all, we have the promise of his never-ending presence with us in all situations of life. Let’s be sorry for the times we have failed to stand for the Lord during fear and insecurities.

Liturgical materials for 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ignkPKRS3gNPiE6P0AA5aQuZe9A89y15?usp=sharing

Response Hymn - https://youtu.be/bsN77s3KO7Q

11th Ordinary Sunday

HARVEST IS PLENTY

The main theme of today’s readings is that we are commissioned or sent, to transform others with the “Good News” of God’s love, mercy, forgiveness, and salvation through Jesus His Son. We are called to be God’s people. The needs of God’s people are great. In a world of addiction, suicide, confusion, poverty, injustice and many other big needs, Jesus still looks and sees people ‘like sheep without a shepherd’. He calls each of us, male and female, young and old into his service. Let us abide to his call and live a life of truth and worthy of him. Today’s Gospel recounts the call and commissioning of the Twelve Apostles. Jesus gathers around him a community with a mission, a community sent to practise compassion to all. The Christian community is a community of service, imitating the Lord who came to serve.

Liturgical materials for the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JLqiTwVy10ROBg_JhtJxfArq5JuGWzxG?usp=sharing

Tamil Response Hymn - https://youtu.be/nZGXMWI9T0U

Feast of the Sacred Hearts

HEARTS BURNING WITH LOVE

The feast of Sacred Heart is the feast of God’s love for mankind as manifested through Jesus Christ. Today’s celebration is an echo of Good Friday; an invitation to immerse ourselves in the source of that immense love which brought about our salvation. The Church calls us to discover God’s love as reflected in the heart of Jesus. The liturgy reminds us that “lifted high on the cross, Christ gave his life for us, as much did he love us. As we prepare to celebrate the Eucharistic sacrifice, the sacrament of Christ’s love for us, let us be sorry for all our sins of ingratitude and coldness towards Him and His sacrament of love.

Close to the Heart of the Son is the Heart of the Mother whom the Church celebrates the day after the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Let it again be the Holy Father who illuminates us with regard to this mystery: “The heart that resembles that of Christ more than any other is without a doubt the Heart of Mary, his Immaculate Mother, and for this very reason the liturgy holds them up together for our veneration. Responding to the Virgin's invitation at Fatima, let us entrust the whole world to her Immaculate Heart, which we contemplated yesterday in a special way, so that it may experience the merciful love of God and know true peace”.

Liturgy for the Sacred Hearts Feast -

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xlAVvD7IBznMlgwtEzecROzZ8fmJMiPF?usp=drive_link 

Feast of the Corpus Christi

SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT

This feast is being celebrated in the Church with a twofold purpose: first, to praise our Lord for having given himself as our spiritual food and drink in the Holy Eucharist, and second, to help us realize the absolute necessity of the Eucharist for our Christian life. Today, we are not only celebrating the reception of the body and blood of Christ in holy communion but also the fact that we are the Body of Christ. At the end of every celebration of the Eucharist, we are sent out with this great prayer of mission, ‘let us go in peace to love and serve the Lord.’ On this wonderful day, as we honour the real presence of the Body of Jesus in the Eucharist, the source and summit of Christian life, may each of us be fed and nourished through the body and blood of Christ. Pope Francis says: “The Eucharist is not a prize for the perfect, but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.” Do we realize our unworthiness and weakness?

Liturgical materials for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ (The Corpus Christi).

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_ssia02Ahs5IL93EtjjXpHW-4F5XQ6DF?usp=sharing

Tamil Response Hymn - https://youtu.be/5vgZrcVHczA

Feast of the Most Holy Trinity

THREE IN ONE

Today’s liturgy commemorates the greatest mystery of Christian faith – the Trinity. God the Father is the Creator, God the Son is the Redeemer and God the Holy Spirit is the Sanctifier. The First Reading underlines the Father’s love, mercy, patience, faithfulness and forgiveness. God is worthy of all our love and worship. In the Second Reading, St Paul makes certain practical suggestions to manifest our faith in God with corresponding actions. God who is full of love and compassion invites all the faithful to become aware of His nature, to believe in Him and to imitate Him by living a life worthy of the Trinity. For our failures to have a strong foundation for our faith and to live by true faith, we shall implore God’s forgiveness.

Liturgical materials for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1an3lb1J6wNGmCqOMnFknAPjiAYpO09dI?usp=sharing

Tamil Response Hymn - https://youtu.be/5itbGvdvy7U

Holy Trinity Song - https://youtu.be/Np6imu3y0qM