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Feasts and Solemnities / Ordinary Time / Weekdays / Year II

TO DO YOUR WILL IS MY DESIRE (Ps 40:8)

⏰Saturday of the Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time 2 (05 Sept. 2020) 📖1 Cor 4:6b-15; Ps 145:17-18, 19-20, 21 (R.v.18a); Luke 6:1-5 ????TO DO YOUR WILL IS MY DESIRE (Ps 40:8) Whose will do you do in your worship of God? Your own will or the will of God? Do you even know that it is possible for you to be doing your personal will while thinking that you are doing the will of God? Consider the actions of the members of the Church in Corinth. Their internal division in that was a result of their thinking that they are...

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“…LET IT BE TO ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD” (Luke 1:38)

⏰Solemnity of the Annunciation (25 March 2017) ????Isa 7:10-14, 8:10; Ps 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 11 (R.v.8a, 9a); Heb 10:4-10; Luke 1:26-38 ????”…LET IT BE TO ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD” (Luke 1:38) It is about 9 months to Christmas from now. Christmas is the time we celebrate the birth of the promised saviour of the world. As childbirth is not something that comes spontaneously, the Church looks back to the moment which initiated the fulfilment of that promise. The high point of that moment is in Mary’s response to the Angel’s message, “Let it be to me according to your...

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Faith, Trust and Obedience in St. Joseph

⏰The Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary ?2Sam 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16; Ps 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29; Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22; Matt 1:16, 18-21, 24a ?Faith, Trust and Obedience Today, we celebrate the solemnity of St. Joseph, the Husband of Mary. In the history of the Catholic Church, he is the most cherished Saint, only next to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Devotion to him dates as far back as the 5th and 6th Centuries and since then, there has been great attention paid on him. This is despite the fact that there is very little said...

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AT YOUR WORD I WILL LET DOWN THE NETS

⏰Feast of St. Patrick (17 March 2020) 1 Pet 4:7b-11; Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 9-10a and c (R.v.3); Luke 5:1-11 My dear, God does not demand for so much from us before he can do wonders in and through us. He only demands that we might have faith in him and be ready to cooperate with his grace in us. Consider the encounter between Jesus and Peter in Luke 5:1-11. Peter was a professional fisherman. And Jesus, if anything at all in the eyes of the society, was a carpenter. So Peter was in a better position to give orders...

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LIGHT TO THE NATIONS

⏰THE SOLEMNITY OF THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD 📕Isa 60:1-6; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13 (R.v.11); Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6; Matt 2:1-12 🎤LIGHT TO THE NATIONS! In the solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, we celebrate God’s revelation of himself to all of humanity, unhindered by any human limitation. Jesus is the light that shines for all to see (cf. John 1:9). Remember that Simeon made reference to that role of being the light to those who sit in darkness and the glory of the people of Israel (Luke 2:32). That indicates a perfect fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah...