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ARE YOU WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB?

⏰Saturday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (27 July 2019) 📖Exod 24:3-8; Ps 50:1-2, 5-6, 14-15 (R.v.14a); Matt 13:24-30 🎤ARE YOU WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB? My dear, how has your spiritual journey been since we began reading from the book of Exodus? Do you try to evaluate yourself through the Israelites’ encounters with God? Have you seen the need to join them in this covenant renewal today? So far, we have seen a faithful God patiently managing an unfaithful people. During the week, we saw how they were complaining about everything around them. In fact,...

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“THE LORD GAVE THEM BREAD FROM HEAVEN” (Ps 78:24)

⏰Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (24 July 2019) 📖Exod 16:1-5, 9-15; Ps 78:18-19, 23-24, 25-26, 27-28 (R.v.24b); Matt 13:1-19 🎤”THE LORD GAVE THEM BREAD FROM HEAVEN” (Ps 78:24) Have you lived or stayed with someone who is always complaining, almost about everything? Such persons can be so irritating and unfortunately, at the situations they complain about, they would become the worst of all. If you have encountered such people, it will be easier for you to understand how God ought to feel at the complaints of the Israelites. Just imagine! Recently we read of how they...

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“I WILL SING TO THE LORD, FOR HE HAS TRIUMPHED GLORIOUSLY” (Exod 15:1)

⏰Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (23 July 2019) 📖Exod 14:21 – 15:1; Exod 15:8-9, 10 and 12, 17 (R.v.1a); Matt 12:46-50 🎤”I WILL SING TO THE LORD, FOR HE HAS TRIUMPHED GLORIOUSLY” (Exod 15:1) Do you remember what we said when we began reading from the book of Exodus? We had begun from the point where Pharoah issued a decree for the destruction of the Jewish race. Then we did say that though we are beginning with that sad note, it will not always end in sadness. Can you not see that from the experience of...

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Ordinary Time / Sixteenth Week / Year I

“HE WHO HEARS THE WORD AND UNDERSTANDS IT; HE INDEED BEARS FRUIT” (Matt 13:23)

⏰Friday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (28 July 2017) ????Exod 20:1-17; Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11 (R. John 6:68c); Matt 13:18-23 Where is the Word of God planted in your life? How is it growing up in you? Does it have a rich soil in you to germinate? As we already have seen, what determines the kind of soil we provide for the growth of the word of God in us is our disposition. It is about what we understand about it and how we do so. There are some of us who only believes because the...

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Ordinary Time / Sixteenth Week / Year I

“BLESSED ARE YOUR EYES, FOR THEY SEE, AND YOUR EARS, FOR THEY HEAR” (Matt 13:16)

⏰Thursday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (27 July 2017) ????Exod 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20b; Dan 3:29-30, 31, 33, 32, 34 (R.v.29b); Matt 13:10-17 God is all powerful yet he has made himself so simple for us to experience and encounter. From the encounter the people of Israel had with God in the First Reading, we see the desire he has to reveal himself to man. That revelation is for our good. For the Israelites, it served to encourage them and build their trust around Moses and in the promised salvation. Yet, to have that encounter with God, it...

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Feasts and Solemnities / Ordinary Time / Sixteenth Week / Year I

“THE LORD GAVE THEM BREAD FROM HEAVEN” (Ps 78:24)

⏰Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (26 July 2017 – Memorial of Ss Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary) ????Exod 16:1-5, 9-15; Ps 78:18-19, 23-24, 25-26, 27-28 (R.v.24b); Matt 13:1-19 Have you lived or stayed with someone who is always complaining, almost about everything? Such persons can be so irritating and unfortunately, at the situations they complain about, they would become the worst of all. If you have encountered such people, it will be easier for you to understand how God ought to feel at the complaints of the Israelites. Just imagine! On Monday,...

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Ordinary Time / Sixteenth Week / Year I

“FEAR NOT, STAND FIRM, AND SEE THE SALVATION OF THE LORD” (Exod 14:13)

⏰Monday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (19 July 2021) 📖Exod 14:5-18; Exod 15:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 (R.v.1a); Matt 12:38-42 Again, at the beginning of this new work week, I remember that artwork I saw first on Facebook which has the following inscriptions: DON’T TELL GOD THAT YOU HAVE A BIG PROBLEM; TELL YOUR PROBLEM THAT YOU HAVE A BIG GOD! When God had delivered the Israelites from Egypt, the Egyptians soon realised that they were going to miss their services, and so pursued them (cf. Exod 14:5ff). So, as the Israelites saw themselves trapped the Red Sea and...