Dear Friends By now many of you know that I am the new pastor of St. Cecilia’s parish. My name is M. Leo Felix Monroe, SAC. I was born on January 22, 1953, I come from the southern part of India from the province of Tamilnadu. A land full of…

Dear Friends The gospel of the Thirteenth Sunday of the year tells us:” when the days drew for him to be taken up, Jesus set his face to go to Jerusalem.” (Lk.9.51). Jesus knew what awaited him in Jerusalem. He knew that he will be handed over to the chief…

Dear Friends Today’s Reading from the Gospel of Luke [Lk. 9:18-24] delivered a number of spiritual messages to us. The attention is drawn on Jesus. Who was Jesus? Who did the crowds think that He was? Who did Saint Peter think that Jesus was? There were those who believed that…

Dear friends: Today’s gospel describes to us many characteristics of Jesus, namely sociability, his enjoyment of hospitality, his sympathy towards the sinner, his power of forgiveness of sins. The gospel says.” And a woman in the city. who was a sinner, having learned that Jesus was eating in the Pharisee’s…

Dear Friends: Last Sunday we celebrated the feast of the Most Holy Trinity. We praised God for the wisdom, the power and the love displayed in the creation of the world and still more in His work to save all men. We praise Him in particular for His wonderful ways…

Dear Friends: Today we are celebrating the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday. One God three persons, truly distinct from one another. Many of us think, the Holy Trinity is a myth but a mystery. A myth is unreal but conceivable. A mystery is real but incomprehensible. Trinity is…

Dear Friends: Today we have come to the feast of Pentecost, the most solemn day of the year, after that of Easter. The two feasts are intimately connected: the Feast of the Resurrection of Jesus marks the beginning of Easter time which is brought to completion by the feast of…

Dear Friends: We celebrate today the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ into heaven. We find in the readings of today two accounts of the Ascension of Jesus into heaven, both given by St. Luke, one at the end of his gospel (Lk.24.50-55) and the other at…

Dear Friends: In the Liturgy of the word today, Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words.” (Jn.14,23.24a)…

Dear Friends: Jesus says: “I give you a new commandment, that you Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also must love one another . By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another,” (John 13:34-35) In today’s gospel…