Homily Archives 2004

The following are Archives of Fr. Coutt’s homilies, early 2004 through Easter Sunday.

• Easter Sunday - Each Easter we read the same story of the Resurrection. Yet each year our lives have changed. There are new wars, new atrocities, new heroes emerge. The same Gospel is seen in a new light - the kaleidoscopic colours change. The story of Mary Magdalene at the tomb is O! So new ...
   
• Good Friday - Good Friday? - The agony in the Garden, the Crowing with thorns, a whipping at the pillar, the carry of the Cross and the humiliating nailing to the Cross. Was there no other way?
   
• Holy Thursday - “We remember, We celebrate, We believe.”
   
• Palm Sunday - 2004 - After the long and dramatic reading of the Passion, it would be hard to remember the second reading, much less the very first line of that reading. "Put on the mind of Jesus Christ." 
   
• Service of Light - A service that savours some of that richness. We have a "rehearsal" we look out for what is meaningful and significant. Secondly: Walking in the Light is not a once in a life time experience. It is not like Baptism and Confirmation: - however we have constantly and continually to get back...
   
• Fifth Sunday In Lent - "Don't pet sweaty things, don't sweat petty things" ...
   
• Fourth Sunday In Lent - The fourth Sunday of Lent very aptly falls on the first day of Spring. How appropriate because the theme of our readings is "everything old has become new again." Everything that looked dead during winter will soon shows signs of new life: the buds on the trees and the new leaves.
   
• Third Sunday in Lent - We are midway through Lent, "Make sure your seat belts are fastened, your chairs and tables are in the upright and lock position, your handbags are in the overhead bins or under the seat in front of you, as we prepare for take off" - (3/14/04)
   
• Second Sunday in Lent - The Transfiguration (3/7/04)
   
• First Sunday In Lent (2/29/04)
   
• Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (2/22/04)
   
• Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (2/15/04)
   
• Fifth Sunday In Ordinary Time (2/8/04)
   
• Fourth Sunday In Ordinary Time (2/1/04)
   
• Third Sunday In Ordinary Time (1/25/04)
   
• Second Sunday In Ordinary Time (1/17/04)
   
• The Baptism of Jesus (1/11/04)
   
• Feast of the Epiphany, year “c” (1/4/04)