THOMAS THE DIDYMUS

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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...

GET SOME REST!

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SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME(Green) Cycle B/Year I (July 18, 2021)Jer 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...

THE KINGDOM OF GOD

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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...

I BRING NOT PEACE BUT DIVISION

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TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME(Green) Cycle C/Year I (August 18, 2019)Jer 38:4-6, 8-10/Heb 12:1-4/Lk 12:49-53It is shocking to listen to the words of Jesus in the gospel for this Sunday. His message is not the usual message that He gives which is always about love,...

The Canaanite Woman’s Faith

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TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Green) Cycle A/Year I (August 20, 2017) Is 56:1, 6-7/Rom 11:13-15, 29-32/Mt 15:21-28 THE CANAANITE WOMAN’S FAITH The story about the Canaanite woman is important in the mission of Jesus. It is one of the very few occasions in which we...

Jesus Ascends Into Heaven

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SOLEMNITY OF OUR LORD’S ASCENSION (White) Cycle C/Year II (May 8, 2016) Acts 1:1-11; Eph 1:17-29; Lk 24:46-53After showing to His disciples His healed wounds caused by the crucifixion, explaining to them the teachings of the bible about Himself as the Savior, and commissioning them as...

HATING ONE’S FATHER, MOTHER, WIFE, CHILD, OR SIBLING

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By: Rev. Fr. Orly MendozaTWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME(Green) Cycle C/Year II (September 4, 2023)Wis 9:13-18/Phlm 9-10, 12-17/Lk 14:25-33The family is the basic cell of society. This is true not only for any nation or country but even with our Catholic Church. In fact,...

STRIVE TO ENTER THROUGH THE NARROW GATE

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Most of us are confident that we will enter into the Heavenly Kingdom of God because we are baptized Christians and have attended the Holy Mass during Sundays and have prayed from time to time. But then confronted with the words of Jesus Christ...

Depart From Me You Evildoers!

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TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Green) Cycle C/Year II (August 21, 2016) Is 66:18-21/Heb 12:5-7, 11-13/Lk 13:22-30As Jesus was going to Jerusalem, He passed through towns and villages teaching about the eternal salvation. Someone asked Him if only few people would be saved to which He...

Take My Yoke

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FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Green) Cycle A/Year I (July 9, 2017) Zec 9:9-10/ Rom 8:9, 11-13/ Mt 11:25-30 William Barclay said that according to a legend, Jesus Christ was the best ox-yoke maker. Jesus made the best ox-yokes in all Galilee, and that from all...