HOMELIES

La résurrection du Christ étend ses effets de manière illimitée dans toutes les réalités de la vie des apôtres. Le Seigneur ne cesse de surprendre ses disciples dans les différents endroits: à la tombe, dans la maison, en route, à la rivière. L'évangile d'aujourd'hui nous décrit la scène de son apparition au bord de la mer de Tibériade.

Joy is overflowing on this feast day. We celebrate the Risen Christ, for whom we have lived 40 days of Lent in memory of his 40 days of temptation in the desert. Today, let us sing with the choir of angels and the multitude of the baptized for God's blessing on his people.

In the Passion of Christ according to Saint John, there is a remarkable revelation of the divine nature of the Son. Yet he learned to obey in order to bring salvation. His suffering had no meaning for those around him. He was a mere condemned man. But Christ takes the destiny of humanity into his own hands with complete lucidity.

Salvation is achieved through the humility of those who agree to embark on the path of passion. We relive the same journey today, as we retrace the procession that advances toward Jerusalem with branches in hand. Let us once again sing loudly and clearly HOSANNA SON OF DAVID in our various desolations and solitudes, accompanying Christ toward his passion, his death, and his resurrection.

We are celebrating the Fifth Sunday of Lent. This coming joy should motivate us to greater perseverance in the life of conversion. God is merciful toward our sins; let us cooperate with his grace to help our brothers and sisters escape the yoke of their errors instead of judging them.

The father, in the parable of this Fourth Sunday of Lent, exults with joy at the return of his lost son (15:24). This is the same attitude displayed by the shepherd who goes in search of a single lost sheep, leaving the other 99 (15:6) and by the woman who found the coin in her house (15:9).

Our history is strewn with pitfalls that rob us of our happiness. Happiness is a light that attracts the gaze of every being. It is the meaning of our struggles for survival. Let us commit ourselves today to the desert with Christ to overcome temptation, the assurance of our Easter.

Today's Gospel opens our reflection on a right conscience. These short sentences read this Sunday invite us to act with discernment and judgment in order to produce good fruits capable of pleasing God and society. All this is only possible when our hearts conceal the treasure that should enlighten our actions. To this end, I propose these three steps.

If last Sunday we were in the baths of 4 beatitudes followed by 4 lamentations, today Christ shows us the way to follow to really reach these beatitudes. It is about this passage from the animal man to the spiritual man. An obligatory scheme to savor the effects of the Kingdom from now until everything is fulfilled at the end of time.

The celebration of the Chair of Saint Peter in the Church is a call confirming the foundation stone of the Church's faith which is based on Jesus Christ, Son of God; it also reminds us of the place occupied by Saint Peter the Apostle (with his successors) among the apostles.

Around Jesus we are gathered to listen to him and experience the fulfillment of his signs. Let us make our hearts pure to welcome his Word, purify our hands to receive his body and prepare our tongue to sing his holiness.

In this Jubilee Year meditated on from the perspective of hope, Pope Francis invites us this Sunday to reflect on the following theme: "I hope in your Word" Ps 119:74. In the Gospel proposed on this third Sunday, we are placed before two texts from Luke which open us to the understanding of the scriptures doubly: from reference to extension (Luke 1:1-4) and from extension to accomplishment (Luke 4:14-21).