Author Archives: Rick Montanez

HOMILY: Twenty Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Mark 9:30-37 19 September 2021  Fr. Ricky Cañet Montañez, AA A friend once chanced upon a social media meme with a picture of two women who are sitting on the floor each busy writing something in textbooks that lie open on their laps. They are discussing aboutContinue reading “In Recognising and Pursuing TRUE Greatness “

HOMILY: Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows Luke 2:33-35 15 September 2021  Fr. Ricky Cañet Montañez, AA Alinaya Cordero, a cardiologist, recounted on her FB post how broken she was after having to inform the mother of her youngest COVID patient that her child was gone. “Habang nasa gilid ng kalsada, kausap ko ang ina na OFWContinue reading “Facing the Sorrows of Life like…with Mary”

HOMILY: Twenty Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Mark 8:27-35 12 September 2021  Fr. Ricky Cañet Montañez, AA A friend recommended that I watch the American adaptation of the South Korean medical drama series, The Good Doctor. The plot revolves around Dr. Shaun Murphy, a young physician with autism and savant syndrome, who joins theContinue reading “Facing Hard Truths of Being Christian”

HOMILY: Twenty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Mark 7:31-37 5 September 2021  Fr. Ricky Cañet Montañez, AA I recently heard a medical practitioner lament that COVID is the most complex disease that mankind has ever encountered. He said, “Every day, it seems we discover how this disease finds new ways to kill mankind. IContinue reading “When a bit of Heaven is opened…”

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”

HOMILY: Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) John 6:1-15 25 July 2021  Fr. Ricky Cañet Montañez, AA Just when I thought things were finally getting better, we are again beset with so much fear and anxiety over the news of the highly transmissible Delta variant possibly triggering another surge of COVID cases in the country.Continue reading “When the SCANT becomes PLENTY”