Food For The Soul

Among the three persons of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit is the least known. We know God the Father who is the first person of the Holy Trinity as He has been known since the Old Testament times. Even until now, our liturgical...

ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Green) Cycle B/Year II (June 13, 2022) Ez 17:22-24/2 Cor 5:6-10/Mk 4:26-34 THE KINGDOM OF GOD Jesus 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...

It is our natural tendency to look for comfort so much so that when we are invited to a party, we usually look for a better seat where we think we are more comfortable not knowing that there are times when we take a...

TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Green) Cycle C/Year I (August 18, 2019) Jer 38:4-6, 8-10/Heb 12:1-4/Lk 12:49-53 It 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,...

PALM SUNDAY OF THE LORD’S PASSION (Red) Cycle C/Year II (March 20, 2016) Is 50:4-7/Phil 2:6-11/ Lk 22:14-23:56 or Lk 23:1-49 The Jews brought Jesus before Pilate with charges against Him. Pilate interrogated Jesus and concluded with this judgment: “I find this man not guilty”...

FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY (White) Cycle C/Year I (December 30, 2018) (Sir 3: 2-6. 12-14/ Col 3: 12-21/Lk 2: 41-52) “I must be in my father’s house.” This was the thought which constantly ran in our minds when, as children – enjoying so much...

FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (White) Cycle A/Year I (May 14, 2017) Acts 6:1-7/1 Pt 2:4-9/Jn 14:1-12 “Lord, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way” (Jn 14:5)? This question of Thomas the Apostle expressed the puzzlement of all the...

By: Rev. Fr. Orlando Mendoza Formation for priests in the seminary, particularly in the Philippines, is long. It takes at least nine years to finish if you enter the seminary after high school. Because of its long and rigorous formation, not all seminarians become priests....

FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT Migrants’ Sunday (Violet) Cycle C/Year I Dt 26:4-10/Rom 10:8-13/Lk 4:1-13             Today, just like thousand years ago, people worship not the real God but the gods and goddesses. The Greeks worshipped Zeus, Poseidon, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, etc. The Egyptians worshipped Osiris, Isis, Amun, Ptah, Re, etc. The...

FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT National Migrants’ Sunday (Violet) CYCLE C/YEAR I (February 14, 2016) Dt. 26:4-10/Rom 10:8-13/Lk 4:1-13 Jesus Christ was tempted on the desert for forty days and forty nights. Like the Israelites who stayed in the desert for forty years and were constantly tempted by Satan...