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Traversing Emmaus

Ashwin Emmanuel Acharya

A low-key collection of homilies, and the occasional catechetical mini-series. Please enjoy, and if I could encourage you to pray for Bishop Michael McCarthy"s intentions and for the Diocese of Rockhampton, in Qld, Australia. Thank you kindly 😁.

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15:53

As with heavenly treasure, with pearl and with net,...

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2023/08/31

Homily for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Gladstone, Qld."The Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream and said, ‘Ask what you would like me to give you.’ Solomon replied, ‘O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in succession to David my father. But I am a very young man, unskilled in leadership. Your servant finds himself in the midst of this people of yours that you have chosen, a people so many its number cannot be counted or

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7:49

Each of us is being called to the Terrifying Reality...

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2023/08/26

Homily for Thursday in the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time, delivered in the Chanel College Chapel, Gladstone, Qld."The Lord said to Moses, ‘I am coming to you in a dense cloud so that the people may hear when I speak to you and may trust you always...’ Now at daybreak on the third day there were peals of thunder on the mountain and lightning flashes, a dense cloud, and a loud trumpet blast, and inside the camp all the people trembled. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God;

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6:51

The Elders know how the Word bears fruit in one place...

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2023/08/26

Homily for the Feast of Saints Anne and Joachim, Wednesday in the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time, delivered in the New Auckland Retirement Village, Gladstone, Qld."From Elim they set out, and the whole community of the sons of Israel reached the wilderness of Sin – between Elim and Sinai – on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left Egypt. And the whole community of the sons of Israel began to complain against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness and said to them, ‘Why did we

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12:25

CEW — reason to give God thanks and praise, and to...

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2023/08/26

Homily for Catholic Education Week, (Feast of Saint James, Apostle), delivered at St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School, Gladstone, Qld."We are only the earthenware jars that hold this treasure, to make it clear that such an overwhelming power comes from God and not from us. We are in difficulties on all sides, but never cornered; we see no answer to our problems, but never despair; we have been persecuted, but never deserted; knocked down, but never killed; always, wherever we may

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12:04

God has called us to offer our all, trusting that he...

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2023/08/25

Homily for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Gladstone, Qld."You show your strength when your sovereign power is questioned and you expose the insolence of those who know it;but, disposing of such strength, you are mild in judgement, you govern us with great lenience, for you have only to will, and your power is there. By acting thus you have taught a lesson to your people how the virtuous man must be kindly to his fellow men, and you have

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14:48

Just leniency, precious frailty, growth and...

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2023/08/25

Homily for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered in St Agnes Church, Agnes Waters, Qld."There is no god, other than you, who cares for every thing,to whom you might have to prove that you never judged unjustly. Your justice has its source in strength, your sovereignty over all makes you lenient to all. You show your strength when your sovereign power is questioned and you expose the insolence of those who know it; but, disposing of such strength, you are mild in judgement, you

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7:03

These archetypal stories must find a home in our...

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2023/08/23

Homily for Friday in the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Gladstone, Qld.Joined by some of our primary school children."Moses and Aaron worked many wonders in the presence of Pharaoh. But the Lord made Pharaoh’s heart stubborn, and he did not let the sons of Israel leave his country. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: ‘This month is to be the first of all the others for you, the first month of your year... This day is to be a

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8:38

Come scatter and be scattered in the richest of soil,...

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2023/08/22

Reflection with some of the school children and their parents, at St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School, Gladstone, Qld."Jesus left the house and sat by the lakeside, but such large crowds gathered round him that he got into a boat and sat there. The people all stood on the beach, and he told them many things in parables. He said, ‘Imagine a sower going out to sow. As he sowed, some seeds fell on the edge of the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Others fell on patches of rock

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7:28

O that it would be self-evident Who appointed us to...

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2023/08/22

Homily for Tuesday in the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, delivered in St Patrick's Church, Emerald, with Fr Tryc Pham."There was a man of the tribe of Levi who had taken a woman of Levi as his wife. She conceived and gave birth to a son and, seeing what a fine child he was, she kept him hidden for three months. When she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him; coating it with bitumen and pitch, she put the child inside and laid it among the reeds at the river’s edge

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14:49

Listen keenly to the singular privilege of being...

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2023/08/22

Homily for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea, Gladstone, Qld."Thus says the Lord: ‘As the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth, making it yield and giving growth to provide seed for the sower and bread for the eating, so the word that goes from my mouth does not return to me empty, without carrying out my will and succeeding in what it was sent to do.’" (cf. Is 55)."The seed that falls on good

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6:23

Our joy and strength and boast is that we never walk...

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2023/08/22

Homily for Friday in the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Gladstone, Qld."Israel left Canaan with his possessions, and reached Beersheba. There he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. God spoke to Israel in a vision at night, ‘Jacob, Jacob’, he said. ‘I am here’, he replied. ‘I am God, the God of your father’, he continued. ‘Do not be afraid of going down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there. I myself will go down to

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7:50

The Christian story is one that unexpectedly flips...

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2023/08/22

Homily for Thursday in the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Saint Henry), delivered in the Chanel College Chapel, Gladstone, Qld."Judah went up to Joseph and said, ‘May it please my lord, let your servant have a word privately with my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself... Joseph said to his brothers, ‘I am Joseph. Is my father really still alive?’ His brothers could not answer him, they were so dismayed at the sight of him. Then Joseph said to his

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6:53

With Joseph as model and guide, may we be utterly...

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2023/08/21

Homily for Wednesday in the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea, Gladstone, Qld."When the whole country of Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread. But Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, ‘Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.’" (cf. Gen 41)."Jesus summoned his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits with power to cast them out and to cure all kinds of diseases and sickness." (cf. Mt 10).Artwork:

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8:00

Where are the labourers, the wrestlers, those who...

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2023/08/21

Homily for the Feast of Saint Benedict, Tuesday in the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Gladstone, Qld."Jacob rose, and taking his two wives and his two slave-girls and his eleven children he crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream and sent all his possessions over too. And Jacob was left alone." (cf. Gen 32)."Display your great love, you whose right hand saves, your friends from those who rebel against

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36:13

Exploring major themes in our: unicity, sin,...

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2023/08/21

A conversation with some of the High school kids about what they've been learning, and some of why it all matters.Artwork: an image of children looking at an icon, generated using the Wonder app.

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17:01

You are kings! You share God's yoke in a crucial...

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2023/08/15

Homily for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Gladstone, Qld."The Lord says this: Rejoice heart and soul, daughter of Zion! Shout with gladness, daughter of Jerusalem! See now, your king comes to you; he is victorious, he is triumphant, humble and riding on a donkey..." (cf. Zech 9)."I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God; All your creatures shall thank you, O Lord, and your friends shall repeat their blessing. They shall

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5:52

You have stirred our gladness, Lord. You've dignified...

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2023/08/15

Homily for Friday in the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Gladstone, Qld."The length of Sarah’s life was a hundred and twenty-seven years. She died at Kiriath-arba, or Hebron, in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn and grieve for her... [He] buried [her] in the cave of the field of Machpelah opposite Mamre, in the country of Canaan... [Then] Abraham said to the eldest servant of his household, the steward of all his property,

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8:11

The God of Israel walks with us always, to ransom,...

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2023/08/15

Homily for Thursday in the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time (feast of Saint Maria Goretti, Virgin, Martyr), delivered in Chanel College Chapel, Gladstone, Qld. "God put Abraham to the test. ‘Abraham, Abraham’ he called. ‘Here I am’ he replied. ‘Take your son,’ God said ‘your only child Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There you shall offer him as a burnt offering, on a mountain I will point out to you.’" (cf. Gen 22)."I will walk in the presence of the Lord in the land of

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6:07

With Thomas the Twin, we see the visible and believe...

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2023/08/15

Homily for the Feast of Saint Thomas, Apostle and Martyr, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish Office Chapel, Gladstone, Qld."You are no longer aliens or foreign visitors: you are citizens like all the saints, and part of God’s household. You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets for its foundations, and Christ Jesus himself for its main cornerstone. As every structure is aligned on him, all grow into one holy temple in the Lord; and you too, in him, are being

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14:41

Christ invites us to replicate the pattern of his own...

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2023/08/14

Homily for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church (evening Mass), Gladstone, Qld."One day as Elisha was on his way to Shunem, a woman of rank who lived there pressed him to stay and eat there. After this he always broke his journey for a meal when he passed that way. She said to her husband, ‘Look, I am sure the man who is constantly passing our way must be a holy man of God. Let us build him a small room on the roof, and put him a bed in it,

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