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FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT—C (Joshua 5: 9-12 2 Corinthians 5: 17-21 Luke 15: 1-3, 11-32) The message of Jesus Christ at the beginning of his public ministry is still vibrant and meaningful today: “The Kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the Gospel”. Christ has already redeemed...
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THE SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME—C (Jeremiah 17: 5-8 1 Corinthians 15: 12 , 16-20 Luke 6: 17 , 20-26) We have been told much of Jesus as the Light of the world, and that we must be the bearers of and witnesses to this Light in our world. We do this through proper and thorough evangelization and...
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FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME—C (Isaiah 6: 1-8 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11 Luke 5: 1-11) We have been called to announce the Good News of Salvation to every creature until the Lord comes again in his glory. This apostolate requires both the Ordained Ministers and the Lay Faithful to constantly depend...
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FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME—C (Jeremiah 1: 4-5, 17-19 1 Corinthians 12: 31—13: 13 Luke 4: 21-30) To be faithful to the Gospel, we may often time place ourselves at a very sensitive and dangerous situation in life. Yet the power of God abides with us in witnessing to the Gospel, even when...
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SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME—C (Isaiah 62: 1-5 1 Corinthians 12: 4-11 John 2: 1-11) By Jesus’ presence at the Wedding at Cana, marriage has been made an important institution to reflect the glory of God in the world. Just as at the Wedding at Cana the presence of Christ was made known in...
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THE TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME—B (Job 38: 1, 8-11 2 Corinthians 5: 14-17 Matthew 4: 35-41) Having celebrated and experienced the various manifestations of God among us, we jump, without any doubt and fear, into the realm of godliness to seek, love and worship God. After all, we have been assured...
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HOLY THURSDAY (Exodus 12: 1-8, 11-14 1 Corinthians 11: 23-26 John 13: 1-15) This evening begins the Easter Triduum of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus. This Triduum is the core and the most important point in the course of the Liturgical year, just as Sunday is the most significant day in the course...
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THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT–B (Exodus 20: 1-17 1 Corinthians 1: 22-25 John 2 13-25) Holiness is about the sense of God, since God is the source of all holiness. Each of us is called to be holy as the Heavenly Father is holy. Holiness, therefore, becomes the ultimate way of life for each one of us. We...
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THE SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME–B (Isaiah 43: 18-9, 21-22, 24-25 2 Corinthians 1: 18-22 Mark 2: 1-12) Next Wednesday, we shall all embark on a spiritual journey to mortify our flesh so as to gain spiritual growth. I call it a period of a Charismatic Renewal, because we are provided with the...
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THE SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME–B (Leviticus 13: 1-2, 44-46 1 Corinthians 10: 31–11: 1 Mark 1: 40-45) We are taught in our Catechism that we are here on earth to know, love, and worship God, and to love our neighbors, so that we may one day inherit the Kingdom of God. We all have a common...
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FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME–B (Job 7: 1-4, 6-7 1Corinthians 9: 16-19, 22-23 Mark 1: 29-39) By nature, we are all religious; we believe in something as an Object of Worship. Religion comes in to give us a sort of direction to understand our nature and being. Since creation, we have all made many...
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FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME–B (Deuteronomy 18: 15-20 1 Corinthians 7: 32-25 Mark 1: 21-28) Since creation, God has been in constant communication with us. It is human kind who, because of the philosophy of anthropocentricism, or human-centeredness, has failed to reciprocate the invitation that...
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THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL, APOSTLE (Acts 22: 3-16 1 Corinthians 7: 29-31 Mark 16: 15-18) The story about the miracle of Paulʼs conversion is known to many of us. Paul, on his way to Damascus to kill the Christians, encountered Jesus Christ. From this time onward, Paul, who used to be called Saul,...
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SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME–B (1 Samuel 3: 3-10, 19 1 Corinthians 6: 13-15, 17-20 John 1: 35-42) We all have heard about the Good News. The Good News is that God has shown his mercy on us that through Jesus Christ we might not experience eternal damnation; rather, eternal life in heaven would...
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FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT—B (Isaiah 63: 16-17, 19; 64: 2-7 1 Corinthians 1: 3-9 Mark 13: 33-37) Advent is a time we anticipate the coming of Christ as he comes in our lives as the Immanuel. We also wait for his coming in the Liturgies and in our neighbors. But most of all, we wait with joyful hope...