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Ordinary Time / Twenty-Ninth Week / Weekdays / Year I

“THERE IS NOW NO CONDEMNATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST JESUS” (Rom 8:1)

⏰Saturday of the Twenty-Ninth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (26 October 2019) 📖Rom 8:1-11; Ps 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 (R.v.6); Luke 13:1-9 🎤”THERE IS NOW NO CONDEMNATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST JESUS” (Rom 8:1) That sounds good to the ear, does it not? I think it is quite consoling and it is meant for everyone of us irrespective of whatever we might be passing through at the moment. Jesus Christ has died for us and saved us. He also paid all our debts. And no one can speak when he has not spoken. Now he says that everything about...

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Ordinary Time / Twenty-Eighth Week / Weekdays / Year I

“HE WHO THROUGH FAITH IS RIGHTEOUS SHALL LIVE” (Rom 1:17)

⏰Tuesday of the Twenty-Eight Week of Ordinary Time 1 (15 October 2019 – Memorial of St. Theresa of Avila) 📖Rom 1:16-25; Ps 19:2-3, 4-5 (R.v.2a); Luke 11:37-41 🎤”HE WHO THROUGH FAITH IS RIGHTEOUS SHALL LIVE” (Rom 1:17) We give thanks to the Lord for this beautiful day which he has made and given to us. We thank him for guiding us through the night and making us to sleep well. Sometimes, we think we might have a sleepless night only to be woken up the next morning by the alarm clock. That is the awesome handiwork of God. May all...

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Ordinary Time / Twenty-Sixth Week / Weekdays / Year I

“REJOICE THAT YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN” (Luke 10:20)

⏰Saturday of the Twenty-Sixth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (05 Oct. 2019) 📖Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29; Ps 69:33-35, 36-37 (R.v.34a); Luke 10:17-24 🎤”REJOICE THAT YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN” (Luke 10:20) There are many reasons people go to Church. Some are there to make up the crowd while some come to seek miracles because of troubles. Once they get the desired miracle, they are off again. For such people, God becomes a part-time friend who is visited only when the need arises. What is your own goal in this Christian journey? Where are you heading to? Are you working to...

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Ordinary Time / Twenty-Sixth Week / Weekdays / Year I

“THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD” (Zech 8:8)

⏰Monday of the Twenty-Sixth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (30 Sept. 2019 – Memorial of St. Jerome) 📖Zech 8:1-8; Ps 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23 (R.v.17); Luke 9:46-50 🎤”THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD” (Zech 8:8) What a beautiful way to begin this working week! Do you remember what we said some time ago concerning the purpose for the book of the prophet Zechariah? We did say that he came with a message of hope for the people. And that is just the fact that God himself is going to come and dwell in their...

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Ordinary Time / Twenty-Fifth Week / Weekdays / Year I

YOUR DRY BONE SHALL RISE AGAIN

⏰Saturday of the Twenty-Fifth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (28 Sept. 2019) 📖Zech 2:1-5, 10-11a; Jer 31:10, 11-12ab, 13 (R.v.10d); Luke 9:43b-45 🎤YOUR DRY BONE SHALL RISE AGAIN Are you in any way suffering because of what you lost? Are you already getting discouraged and saying that you cannot rise again? Have people suggested to you that your case is hopeless? Listen! You are not alone in that. Your brothers all over the world are suffering the same thing (1 Pet 5:9). The Israelites faced the same kind of discouragement when they came back to their land and met it...

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Ordinary Time / Twenty-Fifth Week / Weekdays / Year I

THERE IS ALWAYS A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

⏰Friday of the Twenty-Fifth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (27 Sept. 2019 – Memorial of St. Vincent de Paul) 📖Haggai 1:15 – 2:9; Ps 43:1, 2, 3, 4 (R.v.5cd); Luke 9:18-22 🎤THERE IS ALWAYS A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL The problems of the Israelites after their return from exile did not just end with the fact of lack of resources to use in rebuilding the temple. Some of them who knew the temple before it was destroyed lost hope of being able to raise the temple to such a status again. Think of losing a very precious...

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Ordinary Time / Twenty-Fifth Week / Weekdays / Year I

LIVE FOR GOD AND FOR OTHERS

⏰Wednesday of the Twenty-Fifth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (26 Sept. 2019) 📖Ezra 9:5-9; Tob 13:1b-2, 3-4a, 6efgh, 6ij, 8 (R.v.1b); Luke 9:1-6 🎤LIVE FOR GOD AND FOR OTHERS Do you want to be faithful to God? Then you definitely need to be very selfless. Think about God and others first, and be sure that God will never leave you empty handed. That is an important message that we must pick out from Luke 9:1-6, which is seen lived out by Ezra in Ezra 9:5-9, by carrying the burden of his people and intercepting for in humility. Jesus sent out...

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Ordinary Time / Twenty-Fourth Week / Weekdays / Year I

“DO NOT NEGLECT THE GIFT YOU HAVE” (1 Tim 4:14)

⏰Thursday of the Twenty-Fourth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (19 September 2019) 📖1 Tim 4:12-16; Ps 111:7-8, 9, 10 (R.v.2a); Luke 7:36-50 🎤”DO NOT NEGLECT THE GIFT YOU HAVE” (1 Tim 4:14) Have you not realized that nobody is born without a gift? Every child that comes into this world comes with a gift that would be beneficial to him and the entire society. In the same way, everyone who is born into the Church by baptism is also born with a gift. Have you tried to discover your own gift? Are you using it well for the building up...

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Ordinary Time / Twenty-Fourth Week / Weekdays / Year I

REMAIN FIRM IN YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST

⏰Wednesday of the Twenty-Fourth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (18 September 2019) 📖1 Tim 3:14-16; Ps 111:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6 (R.v.2a); Luke 7:31-35 🎤REMAIN FIRM IN YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST In 1 Tim 3:14-16, St. Paul instructs the leaders to remain attached to the fundamental truths of the history of salvation which were handed down to us. Obviously, some people, out of selfish interests, try to deviate from those fundamental truths (see Luke 7:31-35). Trying to fault them would definitely lead to persecution. Do you see how the Jews especially the Pharisees and the leaders were always looking out to see...

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Ordinary Time / Twenty-Third Week / Weekdays / Year I

“THE GRACE OF OUR LORD OVERFLOWED FOR ME WITH FAITH AND LOVE THAT ARE IN CHRIST JESUS” (1 Tim 1:14)

⏰Friday of the Twenty-Third Week of Ordinary Time 1 (13 Sept. 2019 – Memorial of St. John Chrysostom) 📕1 Tim 1:1-2, 12-18; Ps 16:1-2a and 5, 7-8, 11 (R.v.5a); Luke 6:39-42 🎤”THE GRACE OF OUR LORD OVERFLOWED FOR ME WITH FAITH AND LOVE THAT ARE IN CHRIST JESUS” (1 Tim 1:14) My dear, as you prepare to embrace the demands of this day, may Jesus, our dependable friend, be present to you so that you may have a peaceful and miraculous day through the same Christ, our Lord. Amen. There is an adage that says that a river that forgets...