Virtue – Apology Analogy

The Narrow Way

June 20, 2023 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

A Homily for the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C “Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.” –Luke 13:24– If you have heard this story from me prior to 2022, you are probably

Grant Us Wisdom, Grant Us Courage.

May 23, 2018 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit. –1 Corinthians 12:4– Whenever I taught my students about the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, I would always mention the 1970 Academy-Award-winning Hollywood film Patton, starring George C. Scott. There is that classic scene: It’s 1943.

Follow the Bouncing Braids

January 22, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

A Homily for the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C We hear that some are conducting themselves among you in a disorderly way, by not keeping busy but minding the business of others. Such people we instruct and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and to

Of Vice and Men

January 21, 2017 Father Bernard J. Ezaki Homily

Let both grow together until the harvest. –Matthew 13:30– In his famous experiments of the 1960s, Yale University’s social psychologist discovered that his subjects were, in obedience to authority, surprisingly willing to administer what they thought were high voltage electric shocks to poor learners. As a teacher who is