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Homilies and reflections from the churches themselves, in full and in three languages, with each parish’s permission. Every paragraph is the original, word for word.

Reflection · Agneskerk · 10 January
Actie Kerkbalans
Dear parishioners, In January we once again appeal for your support through the annual Actie Kerkbalans campaign. Our parish has grown into a lively community, rooted in the tradition of the Roman Rite. That is reason…
Pater Martin Kromann Knudsen FssP, pastoor
Reflection · Agneskerk · 10 January
ActieKerkbalans
Dear Parishioners, In January we once again appeal to your support through the annual Actie Kerkbalans. Our parish has grown into a lively community, firmly rooted in the tradition of the Roman Rite. This is a cause for…
Father Martin Kromann Knudsen FssP, pastor
Homily · Krijtberg · 26 October
Two ways of praying
A sixth-century wall mosaic in a church in Ravenna can serve as an illustration for today's Gospel. Two men stand in front of a small building with columns – the temple. The man on the right has his hands raised, as we…
Peter van Dael SJ · 30ste Zondag door het jaar
Homily · Krijtberg · 12 October
28th Sunday, yr. C.
Brothers and sisters, in today's readings it is about dealing with illness and also about dying. In the first reading we heard that the Syrian Naaman is wondrously healed of his leprosy by immersing himself seven times…
Pater Ward Biemans SJ · 28ste zondag, jr. C.
Homily · Krijtberg · 11 October
28th Sunday, yr. C
Dear brothers and sisters, today's readings are about dealing with illness and about dying. In the first reading we heard that the Syrian Naaman is miraculously healed of his leprosy, by immersing himself seven times in…
Fr. Ward Biemans SJ · 28th Sunday, yr. C
Homily · Krijtberg · 5 October
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
What can you do with faith? What are the benefits of the Christian faith? These are questions you sometimes hear. Sometimes these questions are asked by people who want to embrace the Christian faith or become somewhat…
Wouter Blesgraaf SJ · 27e Zondag door het jaar
Homily · Krijtberg · 21 September
Transfer of the Rectorate • Regional Superior of the Jesuits Marc Desmet SJ
Dear people of the Krijtberg, dear regular churchgoers who are more familiar with this place than I am myself, This will not so much be a homily – an exposition of the readings – as a ‘sermon’, an edifying word on the…
Marc Desmet SJ · zondag 21 september 2025
Reflection · Agneskerk
High altar in lobith
DEARLY BELOVED FAITHFUL Last week a great deal of work was carried out in Lobith. From the photographs you can gather what a great and joyous change has taken place. The new high altar has been installed, depicting…
Pater M. Kromann Knudsen, FssP
Reflection · Nicolaaskathedraal
About the liturgy
The liturgy seeks to create a space within which God and human beings can meet one another, and within which the human being can leave the church again, inspired and nourished. We confess God as a mystery who has…
Reflection · Agneskerk · March 2026
WOORD van de pastoor
BEMINDE GELOVIGEN - Tijdens de H. Vastentijd is er iedere vrijdag aansluitend op de H. Mis de oefening van de Kruisweg in onze kerk. Voor u een gelegenheid om in het lijden van de goddelijke Verlosser te delen en…
Pater M. Kromann Knudsen · Only in dutch
Reflection · Agneskerk · February 2026
Word From The Pastor
DEAR FAITHFUL — With the first Sunday of February, the pre-Lenten season already begins this year, with the Sunday of Septuagesima. These three weeks of preparation for the holy season of Lent give us the possibility of…
pater M. Kromann Knudsen, FssP, pastoor
Reflection · Agneskerk · February 2026
Candlemas
With the feast of Candlemas the Church traditionally concludes the Christmas season. On this day we recall how Mary and Joseph brought the Child Jesus to the temple to present Him to God, forty days after His birth.…
Maria Lichtmis

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2025 · 15 texts

Homily · Krijtberg · 30 August 2025
Why do people come to church ? ?
The answer – since ages - is comfort and challenge. Comfort - for your pain, your loss, the painful acceptance of your limits that you have to recognize that you failed in what you were supposed to do, or who you were…
Fr Jan Stuyt SJ
Homily · Krijtberg · 16 August 2025
20th Sunday, Year C
Dear brothers and sisters, how can we best understand Jesus' exclamation, ‘I have come to bring fire to the earth’? Or his prophecy that he will bring division? After all, there is already so much division in our world.…
Fr. Ward Biemans SJ · 20th Sunday, Year C
Homily · Krijtberg · 10 August 2025
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Abraham on the way During the holidays many people leave their familiar surroundings. Then they resemble Abraham from the second reading: they dwell as strangers in a foreign land, some even stay there in tents.…
Peter van Dael SJ · Negentiende zondag door het jaar
Homily · Krijtberg · 9 August 2025
Abraham on the Way
During the holidays, many people leave their familiar surroundings. They resemble Abraham of the second reading: they sojourn as strangers in a foreign land, some even staying in tents. Abraham, on his way to the…
Peter van Deal SJ · 19th Sunday in ordinary time
Homily · Krijtberg · 6 August 2025
23rd Sunday, Year C
Dear brothers and sisters, today we hear about doubt and wisdom. One does not necessarily exclude the other. It is human to doubt sometimes. ‘The thoughts of mortals are unsure,’ says the Book of Wisdom. Often,…
Fr. Ward Biemans SJ · 23rd Sunday, Year C
Homily · Krijtberg · 29 June 2025
Saints Peter and Paul, St. Francis Xavier Church
Brothers and sisters, in the centre of Rome there is a church called St. Peter in Chains, San Pietro in vincoli in Italian. Beneath the altar lie the chains which we believe the apostle Peter wore when he was imprisoned…
Pater Ward Biemans SJ · HH. Petrus en Paulus
Homily · Krijtberg · 28 June 2025
Solemnity of Sts. Peter en Paul
On this day, we remember the death as martyrs of the Apostles Peter and Paul, the culmination of their witness to the Lord. Both have publicly confessed the Christ as Messiah, the Son of God. They have proclaimed his…
Fr. Ward Biemans SJ · Solemnity of Sts. Peter en Paul
Homily · Krijtberg · 22 June 2025
The miracle of the multiplication of the loaves
Today we celebrate Corpus Christi. The gospel is about the miraculous feeding of the multitude. We can understand this story on three levels. First level: sharing with one another Nearly nine percent of the world's…
Peter van Dael SJ · Sacramentsdag
Homily · Krijtberg · 25 May 2025
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Years ago I visited a church in Haarlem, built in a quarter with low houses, a neo-Gothic building from the beginning of the 20th century. A large space with everything still on it and in it. The parish priest had built…
Peter van Dael SJ · Zesde zondag van Pasen
Homily · Krijtberg · 20 April 2025
Seeing and believing
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb. Thus begins the Easter Gospel. While it was still dark: these words recall the first verse of the book of Genesis: The earth…
Peter van Dael SJ · Paaszondag
Homily · Krijtberg · 9 March 2025
1st Sunday of Lent, year C
Brothers and sisters, we heard in the first reading that God delivered the Jewish people from Egypt, where they had to work as slaves. The Lord gave them back their freedom. In response to this, Moses says that the…
Pater Ward Biemans SJ · 1e zondag Veertigdagentijd, jr. C
Homily · Krijtberg · 8 March 2025
1st Sunday Lent, Jr. C, Xavier Church
Dear brothers and sisters, we heard in the first reading that God freed the Jewish people from Egypt, where they had to work as slaves. The Lord gave them back their freedom. In response, Moses says the people of God…
Fr. Ward Biemans SJ · 1st Sunday Lent
Homily · Krijtberg · 23 February 2025
Giving and forgiving love
To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, we heard in the Gospel reading. This sentence is taken from a long speech by Jesus in which he formulates the basic principles of his message. His…
Peter van Dael SJ · Zevende zondag door het jaar
Homily · Krijtberg · 26 January 2025
Books come to life
Books must be read A book plays a central role in the first and third readings. The first reading takes us to a square in Jerusalem. That square is filled with people who have returned from the Babylonian exile. They…
Peter van Dael SJ · Derde zondag door het jaar
Homily · Krijtberg · 1 January 2025
New Year, Holy Mary, Mother of God
Brothers and sisters, I hope you had a good turn of the year. This morning I rewatched Pieter Derks' New Year's Eve conference. Very funny and refined. It is also good to pause and consider the concerns for the family…
Ward Biemans SJ · Nieuwjaar, H. Maria, Moeder van God

2024 · 2 texts

Homily · Krijtberg · 25 December 2024
The word became flesh
Christmas means: warmth and light in the middle of the cold winter night, expectation and hope when the days are short and the nights long, a looking forward to a new beginning while the year draws to a close. The…
Peter van Dael SJ · Kerstmis
Homily · Krijtberg · 8 December 2024
2nd Sunday of Advent, yr C
Dear brothers and sisters, a good observer may have noticed: today's Bible texts twice speak of the Lord saying that ‘every valley must be filled, every mountain or hill must be levelled or made flat. The first time…
Ward Biemans SJ · 2e zondag Advent

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