Category: Twenty-Sixth Week

⏰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...

⏰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...

⏰Friday of the Twenty-Sixth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (06 Oct. 2016) ????Baruch 1:15-22; Ps 79:1-2, 3-5, 8, 9 (R.v.9bc); Luke 10:13-16 It is said that “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people” (Prov 14:34). After the Jews had returned to their land from exile, some of them remained and settled in some of the colonies of the nations of their exile. They, nonetheless, maintained their religious and cultural identity and still gathered in synagogues. The Book of Baruch came from this setting and was meant to correct the godlessness and materialistic tendencies that have...

⏰Thursday of the Twenty-Sixth Week of Ordinary Time 1 (05 Oct. 2017) ????Neh 8:1-4a, 5-6, 7b-12; Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11 (R.v.9ab); Luke 10:1-12 What effect does the word of God have on you when you hear it? Does it incite to repent and begin to live better or are you among those who have become so familiar with it that it makes little or no meaning to them? According to St. Paul, “All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refuting error, for correcting and training in righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16). But today, many of...