Category: Twenty-Seventh Week
⏰Saturday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time 1 (14 October 2017) ????Joel 3:12-21; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12 (R.v.12a); Luke 11:27-28 Yesterday, the Catholic Church in Nigeria gathered in the ancient city of Benin-City for the grand finale of Marian Year celebration and the re-consecration of Nigeria to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We prayed that we may seek to do the will of God as she did and taught (cf. John 2:5). The fruit of that prepared the ground for the commendation by the woman in the crowd (cf. Luke 11:27). To really understand the point which Luke 11:27-28...
⏰Friday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time 1 (13 October 2017) ????Joel 1:13-15, 2:1-2; Ps 9:2-3, 6 and 16, 8-9 (R.v.9a); Luke 11:15-26 Do you remember what we said yesterday about the wicked prospering while the just seem to be falling back? The prophet Malachi said that in the end, the wicked will surely weep. Hence, we are encouraged to persevere in the God of providence. The prophet Joel threaded the same line as Malachi, but in his case, the doom’s day is very imminent. And the unfortunate thing is that even the wicked are waiting expectantly for that...
⏰Thursday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time 1 (12 October 2017) ????Mal 3:13 – 4:2a; Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6 (Ps 40:5ab); Luke 11:5-13 Prov 23:17 says, Do not let your heart be envious of sinners. The Book of the prophet Malachi gives us a very familiar situation of things that we normally see around us the wicked prospering while the just wallow in poverty. But doom awaits the wicked in the end (cf. Mal 3:13 4:2). Hence, no matter how tough life becomes for us, we must never follow the way of the wicked so that we...
⏰Wednesday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time 1 (11 October 2017) ????Jonah 4:1-11; Ps 86:3-4, 5-6, 9-10 (R.v.15); Luke 11:1-4 Prayer is the raising up of the mind and heart to God. We pray to adore God, praise and thank him, and for more blessings and graces from him. Prayer also disposes us to accept the will of God. In Luke 11:1, Jesus was found by his disciples praying and they asked him to teach them how to pray. This does not mean that they were not used to praying before. As Jews, they have a system and times...
⏰Tuesday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time 1 (10 October 2017) ????Jonah 3:1-10; Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 7bc-8 (R.v.3); Luke 10:38-42 The prompt response of Jonah when God called him a second time and that of the Ninevites after Jonah had called them to repentance (cf. Jon 3:1-10) challenge us on what must be our attitude towards the Word of God. That attitude must be one of readiness at all times to give ourselves completely to God without looking back nor giving rooms to distractions or procrastination (delay). Jesus brings out that attitude more clearly in his response to Martha’s...
⏰Monday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time 1 (09 October 2016) ????Jonah 1:1-17, 2:1, 10; Jonah 2:2, 3, 4, 5, 7 (R.v.6d); Luke 10:25-37 It is a brand new week, and God has given us a message of hope to begin with as he normally does. He reminds us that his mercy is boundless and invites us to be messengers of that mercy without any hesitation. The stories in the book of Jonah, Chapters 1 and 2 explains well what the prophet Ezekiel meant when he said that God does not want the death of a sinner but that...
