Category: Feasts and Solemnities

⏰Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time 1 (14 Feb 2017 – Memorial of Ss Cyril & Methodius) ????Gen 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10; Ps 29:1a and 2, 3ac-4, 3b and 9c-10 (R.v.11b); Mark 8:14-21 “BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES…” (Mark 8:15) How did things get so bad that God would regret creating man (cf. Gen 6:6)? At the end of creation, God looked at all that he had done, and indeed, it was very good (Gen 1:31). However, great evil arose on earth and the extent and consequence of that as reported in Gen 6:5-8 show that all...

⏰Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time 1 (10 Feb 2017) ????Gen 3:1-8; Ps 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7 (R.v.1a); Mark 7:31-37 GOD IS ENOUGH FOR YOU; BE CONTENTED WITH HIM Do you trust God? Do you believe that he can never deceive you? Do you believe that with him beside you, there is nothing you shall want (Ps 23)? Then why would you want to play God? Eve was not contented with the envious position which God gave her as a human being; she wanted to be like God and have her eyes opened (Gen 3:5). So she believed...

⏰Monday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time 1 (06 Feb 2017 – Memorial of St. Paul Miki and Companions) 📖Gen 1:1-19; Ps 104:1-2a, 5-6, 10 and 12, 24 and 35c (R.v.31b); Mark 6:53-56 🎤”HE SPOKE AND IT CAME TO BE” (Ps 33:9) The creation account in the Book of Genesis serves a number of purposes. It gives the theological explanation of the existence of all things that are. More than that however, it shows us the faithfulness and the all powerful nature of God, who spoke the word and things came into existence. The faithfulness was explained with the...

⏰Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time 1 (31 Jan 2017) ????Heb 12:1-4; Ps 22:26b-27, 28 and 30, 31-32 (R.v.27b); Mark 5:21-43 HOPING EVEN AGAINST HOPE It is once again my feast day, the memorial of St JohnBosco. I request your prayers in a special way especially for an increase in faith. I need to possess that kind of faith that moves mountain (cf. Matt 17:20). Have you ever seen yourself in a condition that made you declare that quitting is the only option? This quitting could even be quitting life itself. Do you believe that Jesus can help...

⏰Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time 1 (24 Jan 2017 – Memorial of St. Frances de Sales) ????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...

⏰Saturday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time 1 – Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (21 Jan 2017 – Memorial of St. Agnes) ????Heb 7:1-3, 15-17; Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4 (R.v.4bc); Mark 3:1-6 HOW COMMITTED AM I? The world today is more interested in bearing titles than in carrying out the duties attached to the titles. You often hear people say, “Do you know I am?” And I normally reply to those people, “Six feet!” That’s if the people are kind enough to even dig up to that when burying the person. Some will not answer their names...