Food For The Soul

FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (White) Cycle C/Year II (April 24, 2016) Acts 14:21-27/Rev 21:1-5a/Jn 13:31-33a, 34-35It is said that the “Last Will and Testament” is a letter in which a person, usually dying, communicates his final wishes especially regarding his possessions. Because it is the will...

BY: REV. FR. ORLY MENDOZA/PRIEST/MAYNGAWAY, SAN ANDRES, CATANDUANESThis Sunday, we celebrate the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity which is one of the dogmas of the Catholic Church. When we say dogma, it means a Catholic doctrine that can never be mistaken because it...

THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Green) Cycle C/Year II (November 6, 2016) 2 Mc 7:1-2, 9-14/2 Thes 2:16-3, 5/Lk 20:27-38Heaven is always a puzzle to us. We do not know what we will become in the second life, especially in heaven. Normally, we think of...

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...

ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME(Green) Cycle B/Year II (June 13, 2022)Ez 17:22-24/2 Cor 5:6-10/Mk 4:26-34THE KINGDOM OF GODJesus Christ compares the kingdom of God into a seed that grows by its own self. The farmer simply plants the seed into the farm and waters...

One day a teacher asked his pupils to write in their paper the Seven Wonders of the World. The pupils unanimously answered the following: 1. Egypt’s Great Pyramids, 2. Taj Mahal, 3. Grand Canyon, 4. Panama Canal, 5. Empire State Building, 6. St. Peter’s...

THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Green) Cycle A/Year I (Jan. 22, 2017) Is 8:23; 9:3/1 Cor 1:10-13, 17/Mt 4:12-23 William Barclay said that the Greeks used to tell how Xenophon first met Socrates. Socrates met him in a narrow lane and barred his path with his...

TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Green) Cycle A/Year I (October 15, 2017) Is 25:6-10/Phil 4:12-14, 19-20/Mt 22:1-14One of the famous religious maxims is this: “Many are called but few are chosen.” More often than not, this dictum is used for priesthood since usually there are many...

I remember when I was still a college seminarian, Msgr. Ping Molina was the Vicar General of the Diocese and at the same time, he was the parish priest of the Virac Cathedral. He was famous in the country because, during the time of...

Jesus Christ and His Apostles were tired from preaching and serving the multitude of people and so Jesus told His Apostles that they would be going to a far place where they could be alone themselves to take their rest and also pray. The...