Food For The Soul

SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER (White) Cycle C/Year I (April 28, 2019) Acts 5:12-16/Rev 1:9-13, 17-19/Jn 20:19-31Jesus appeared to His disciples late of the day of His resurrection. His disciples were praying in a locked room for fear of the Jews. Jesus suddenly appeared to them in...

TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Green) Cycle C/Year II (August 14, 2016) Jer 38:4-6, 8-10/Heb 12:1-4/Lk 12:49-53Jesus’ coming to earth is of three parts. The first happened 2,000 years ago when He came as a Savior, proclaiming the good news of salvation and offering His life...

PENTECOST SUNDAY (Red) Cycle C/Year II (May 23, 2021) Acts 2:1-11/1Cor 12:3-7/Jn 20:19-23On the evening of His resurrection, Christ appeared to His Apostles who were gathered in a closed room and after giving to them His peace and commissioning them, He breathed on...

FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Green) Cycle C/Year II (July 3, 2016) Is 66:10-14/Gal 6:14-18/Lk 10:1-9Jesus sends His disciples to towns and villages He intends to visit and says to the: “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the...

SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME(Green) Cycle B/Year IJer 23:1-6/Eph 2:13-18/Mk 6:30-34In the gospel, Jesus invited His Apostles to get some rest. This is after they arrived from a long journey for which He sent them two by two days before. Jesus knew that His...

BY; REV. FR. ORLY MENDOZAMary was born into a poor Jewish family in Galilee. Her father Joaquim and mother Ann were poor, simple, but devout Jewish parents and she became a devout and prayerful simple girl in the town. She was praying when the...

NATIVITY OF THE LORD (White) Cycle A/Year I (December 25, 2016) Is 52:7-10/Heb 1:1-6/Jn 1:1-18In 560 B.C. there was an Ephesian philosopher called Heraclitus whose basic idea was that everything is in a state of flux. His famous illustration was that it was impossible to step...

TWENTY FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Green) Cycle C/Year II (September 11, 2016) Ex 32:7-11, 13-14/1Tm 1:12-17/Lk 15:1-32The Pharisees and scribes would not have dealing with ordinary people who were not observant to the details of the law; much less to the sinners who were considered...

EDU-FAITH-IONYou were led down to the font of holy baptism just as Christ was taken down from the cross and placed in the tomb which is before your eyes. Each of you was asked, “Do you believe in the name of the Father, and...

When Yahweh descended and shared His spirit with the elders, Eldad and Meldad were not present in the group of elders but they also received the Spirit of Yahweh. So, when they prophesied, some of the elders asked Moses to stop them as they...