Category: Third Week

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January 30, 2019

“LET US HOLD FAST TO THE CONFESSION THAT GIVES US HOPE” (Heb 10:23)

⏰Thursday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time 1 (31 Jan 2019 – Memorial of St. JohnBosco) 📖Heb 10:19-25; Ps 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 (R.v.6); Mark 4:21-25 🎤”LET US HOLD FAST TO THE CONFESSION THAT GIVES US HOPE” (Heb 10:23) Today is the feast day of St. JohnBosco, the patron saint of the youth. More importantly to me, he is my patron saint. So I beg you to pray for me today so that I can also achieve the level of sanctity he achieved and so appear before the throne of God on the last day, pure as he did. Once...

Ordinary Time / Third Week / Weekdays / Year I

January 30, 2019

IS YOUR HEART RICH ENOUGH FOR JESUS?

⏰Wednesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time 1 (30 Jan 2019) 📖Heb 10:11-18; Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4 (R.v.4bc); Mark 4:1-20 🎤IS YOUR HEART RICH ENOUGH FOR JESUS? The truth that we can never tired of speaking is that Jesus is all that we need. There is no achievement that we make in this life which can be compared to the glory and victory that is gained by being with him. Yes, nothing in this life satisfies. But Jesus has provided all we need. He says to us, “Come to me, all who labour and are overburdened, and I...

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January 28, 2019

WHO IS CHRIST TO YOU?

⏰Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time 1 (29 Jan 2019) 📖Heb 10:1-10; Ps 40:2 and 4ab, 7-8a, 10, 11 (R.v.8a, 9a); Mark 3:31-35 🎤WHO IS CHRIST TO YOU? Is he your son, or your brother or your friend? In Mark 3:31-35, the family of Jesus came to take him home since people were now feeling he was going out of hand. So Jesus used the opportunity to catechize the people on the nature of his relationship with them because they lacked proper understanding of him. So he taught them that his real relatives are those who do the...