Monthly Archives: August 2021

HOMILY: Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) 29 August 2021 Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23  Fr. Ricky Cañet Montañez, AA I wonder if you’ve seen the video ad entitled “Pandemic Effect” before the company-sponsor was forced to take it down. It was a time-lapse video featuring a pretty girl who grows hairy, pimply and overweightContinue reading “Outwardly Fervent, Inwardly True Within”

HOMILY: Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) John 6:60-69  22 August 2021 Fr. Ricky C. Montanez, AA Are you happy to be Catholic? I know of someone who says that if he were not born in a predominantly Catholic country he would probably have been Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, or Buddhist.  He often says this whenContinue reading “Holding on to our Faith in Christ”

HOMILY: Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Luke 1:39-56 15 August 2021 Fr. Ricky C. Montanez, AA Three years ago, I received a token from a wedding I officiated in Iloilo of an old boy (an alumnus) and an old girl (an alumna) of Assumption Iloilo. The groom, who loves to sketch,Continue reading “Like Mary, Sharing the Fulness of God’s Promise”

Homily: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) John 6:41-51 8 August 2021  Fr. Ricky C. Montanez, AA “ECQ na naman!” “Back to square one!” “Wala na namang trabaho!” “Saan na naman tayo kukuha ng papakain natin sa ating mga pamilya?” “Kelan kaya matatapos ito?”  How many of us have heaved these sighs of frustration nowContinue reading “Fighting! Stepping out of Despair”

HOMILY: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) John 6:24-35 1 August 2021  Fr. Ricky C. Montanez, AA So, many triumphant photos of our national pride Hidilyn Diaz have been circulating online. She is depicted as someone victorious holding the Olympic gold medal that has remained elusive to us Filipinos for the longest time. It tookContinue reading “Hungering for the Spiritual”