Category: Ordinary Time

⏰Saturday of the Thirty-Second Week of Ordinary Time 2 (17 Nov. 2018 – Memorial of St. Elizabeth of Hungary) 📖3 John 5-8; Ps 112:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6 (R.v.1b); Luke 18:1-8 Remember that we already saw that love could be a veritable instrument of fostering unity. Now, the evangelist John goes ahead to encourage the early Christians on the importance of showing hospitality to strangers, especially the missionaries who have left everything for the sake of the Gospel (cf. 3 John 5-8). In doing that, we would once more be assisting Christ indirectly in line with the demands for the kingdom of...

⏰Friday of the Thirty-Second Week of Ordinary Time 2 (16 Nov. 2018) 📖2 John 4-9; Ps 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18 (R.v.1b); Luke 17:26-37 As we gradually draw closer to the end of the liturgical year, the readings of this period keep taking our minds back to the time of the ultimate end of all things. The Gospel calls us to fix our mind on this reality so that whenever it happens, it shall not be an accident to us. The point we must hold on to is that call to move out of ourselves and consider the things...

⏰Thursday of the Thirty-Second Week of Ordinary Time 2 (15 Nov. 2018) 📖Phlm 7-20; Ps 146:6c-7, 8-9a, 9bc-10 (R.v.5a); Luke 17:20-25 Have you read the Letter of St. Paul to Philemon? It is an interesting piece. Find time to read it. As you do so, you will notice the fortunes of the slave boy, Onesimus, completely for the best and beyond expectations. And I tell you this! Forget about public opinion on you and people’s condemnation of your faith, and hold on sincerely to Christ. You shall equally be lifted up beyond human expectations. Amen. Now, strictly speaking, we are...

⏰Wednesday of the Thirty-Second Week of Ordinary Time 2 (14 Nov. 2018) 📖Titus 3:1-7; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 (R.v.1); Luke 17:11-19 My dear, have you become so familiar with the daily routine of events that you fail to see the hands of God in it? Or do you consider the good things that come to you in life as God’s fulfilment of his own responsibility after you have served him? In other words, do you see it as your right to receive God’s blessings? That must have been the error of the remaining 9 lepers who did not come...

⏰Tuesday of the Thirty-Second Week of Ordinary Time 2 (13 Nov. 2018) 📖Titus 2:1-8, 11-14; Ps 37:3-4, 18 and 23, 27 and 29 (R.v.39a); Luke 17:7-10 When I was in the major seminary, one quotation from the scriptures that every one of us expected to hear from our Bishop is Luke 17:10. He used that to remind us of the importance of humility even when you feel that you have performed excellently in your pastoral duty because, the work is not ours but the God’s work (cf. John 10:32; 17:4), and so, it is a privilege that we partake in...

⏰Monday of the Thirty-Second Week of Ordinary Time 2 (12 Nov. 2018 – Memorial of St. Josaphat) 📖Titus 1:1-9; Ps 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 (R.v.6); Luke 17:1-6 May grace and peace be with you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour (Tit 1:4). Imagine how much time we spend criticizing our leaders in the society of bad leadership! The time could be put into better use but trying to do better. No matter how small a leader is, he must have diehard followers. These try as much as they can to do what he does. The identity of the...