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32nd Sunday Ordinary Time November 12, 2023
Readings: Wisdom 6:12-16, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, Matthew 25:1-13
The Book of Wisdom tells us that we must love and seek wisdom if we are ever going to live in wisdom.. One of the aspects...
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31st Sunday Ordinary Time November 5, 2023
Readings: Malachi 1.14 – 2.2,8-10, 1 Thessalonians 2.7-9,13, Mathew 23.1-12
Hypocrisy is what really ticked Jesus off. This is the reason why he oftentimes criticized the Scribes and Pharisees. He characterized...
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30th Sunday Ordinary Time October 29, 2023
Readings: Exodus 22:20-27, 1 Thessalonians 1:5-10, Matthew 22:34-40
Christianity is a very concrete and practical religion. It might be easy enough to love God but the simple test of whether we do or not...
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29th Sunday Ordinary Time October 22, 2023
Readings: Isaiah 45.1,4-6, Thessalonians 1.1-5, Mathew 22.15-21
This Day invites us to reflect anew on the mission at the heart of the Christian faith. The Church is missionary by nature; otherwise...
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28th Sunday Ordinary Time October 15, 2023
Readings: Isaiah 25:6-10, Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20, Matthew 22:1-14
The Gospel says today, “For many are invited, but few are chosen.” Chosen means called, elected or accepted. When we say &ldquo...
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27th Sunday Ordinary Time October 08, 2023
Readings: Isaiah 5:1-7, Philippians 4:6-9, Matthew 21:33-43
The images that are used in Scripture sometimes leave us with a sense that God is just waiting to judge us and throw us in Hell...
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26th Sunday Ordinary Time October 01, 2023
Readings: Ezekiel 18: 25-28, Ps. 25, Philippians 2: 1-11, Matthew 21: 28-32
Every judgment made is based on the level of knowledge available and the wisdom one has. Often times we judge from the poverty of our...
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24th Sunday Ordinary Time September 17, 2023
Readings: Ecclesiasticus 27:30-28:1-7, Romans 14:7-9, Mathew 18: 21-35
This contains the story of a man who was very good at begging mercy for himself but was very poor at extending mercy to others...
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23rd Sunday Ordinary Time September 10, 2023
Readings: Ezekiel 33:7-9, Romans 13:8-10, Matthew 18:15-20
There is a valuable message in what Jesus says in the Gospel today… “If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with...
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22nd Sunday Ordinary Time September 3, 2023
Readings: Jeremiah 20:7-9, Romans 12:1-2, Matthew 16:21-27
Peter was very open to Jesus as the Christ as he saw the role of the Christ but he wasn’t ready for Jesus to be...
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21st Sunday Ordinary Time August 27, 2023
Readings:Isaiah 22:19-23, Romans 11:33-36, Matthew 16:13-20
The first reading, from the Prophet Isaiah, uses terminology that Jesus uses in today’s Gospel from Saint Matthew. The first thing to note in both...
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20th Sunday in Ordinary Time August 20, 2023
Readings: Isaiah 56:1, 6-7, Romans 11:13-15, 29-32, Matthew 15:21-28
Crumbs in the Kitchen: Why does Jesus want to limit himself to “the lost sheep of the house of Israel?” Was he...
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Transfiguration of the Lord
Readings: Daniel 7.9-10,13-14, 2Peter 1.16-19, Mathew 17.1-9
Transfiguration means change and not just regular change but significant change. The word means a change in the figure but more technically it means incredible...
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17th Sunday in Ordinary Time July 30, 2023
Readings: 1kings 3.5-12, Romans: 8-28-30, Mathew 13.44-52
King Solomon asks for wisdom in order to be able to guide the people of his kingdom. The surprise is that King Solomon does not...
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16th Sunday Ordinary Time July 23, 202
Readings: Wisdom 12.13,16-19, Romans 8.26-27, Mathew 13.24-43
Jesus teaches something about his spiritual Kingdom. We would like God to “fix” all the sinful situations that surround us in this world, and...
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15th Sunday Ordinary Time July 16, 2023
Readings: Isaiah 55:10-11; Romans 8:18-23; Matthew 13:1-23.
The readings of this fifteenth Sunday talk about the word of God. The first reading emphasizes the principle of the word of God. The word...
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14th Sunday Ordinary Time July 9, 202
Readings: Zechariah 9.9-10, Romans 8.9, 11-13, Mathew 11.25-30
Looking around him at the people who are following him, Jesus recognizes in them a hustling activity and business, a burdensome application, that is, he can...
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12th SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME - JUNE 25, 2023
Readings: Jeremiah 20.10-13 , Romans5.12-15 , Mathew 10.26-33
In today’s gospel reading, Jesus says: ‘What I say to you in the dark, tell in the daylight; what you hear in whispers, proclaim from...