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Fr. Ugochukwu Ikwuka’s Homily — Whatever we get is essentially by God’s grace
Fr. Ugochukwu Ikwuka, C.S.Sp., Provincial Superior of the Spiritan British Province, reflects on the Gospel of the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Whatever we get is essentially by God’s grace.
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Fr. Ugochukwu Ikwuka’s Homily — 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
Reflecting on Peter’s rebuke of Jesus after the first prediction of the Passion, Fr. Ikwuka, C.S.Sp., Provincial Superior of the Spiritan British Province, distinguishes believing in God from truly staking one’s life on that…
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Fr. Ugochukwu Ikwuka’s Homily — 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
Reflecting on Peter’s confession of faith at Caesarea Philippi, Fr. Ikwuka considers why Christ entrusted his Church to a man as flawed and unreliable as Peter — a sign, he suggests, of how God’s confidence in imperfect people so…
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Fr. Ugochukwu Ikwuka’s Homily — 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
Reflecting on the Canaanite woman’s persistent plea to Jesus, Fr. Ikwuka considers what her exchange with Christ teaches about faith that refuses to be turned away, even when met with apparent silence or rejection.
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Fr. Ugochukwu Ikwuka’s Homily — 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
Reflecting on Peter walking on water and Elijah’s encounter with God in the “still small voice,” Fr. Ikwuka considers how faith holds steady amid the storms of life, and how God is often found not in dramatic upheaval but in…
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Fr. Ugochukwu Ikwuka’s Homily — 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
Reflecting on the parable of the wheat and the weeds, Fr. Ikwuka considers God’s patience in allowing good and evil to grow side by side until the harvest, and what that patience asks of believers tempted to judge or uproot…
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Fr. Ugochukwu Ikwuka’s Homily — Let’s not make the Eucharist a fast food which some priests now microwave in 15 minutes
Taking the Parable of the Sower as his starting point, Fr. Ikwuka reflects on the quality of soil we offer the Word of God, and issues a pointed call for reverence and unhurried care in the celebration of the Eucharist.