Category: Fifteenth Week

⏰Saturday of the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time 2 (21 July 2018) 📖Micah 2:1-5; Ps 10:1-2, 3-4a, 7-8b, 14 (R.v.12b); Matt 12:14-21 The situation in Judah at the time that the prophet Micah prophesied was similar to that in the Northern Kingdom when Amos and Hosea prophesied. The rich were using their wealth power to oppress the poor. The Lord, who always listens to the cry of the poor then warned through the prophet Micah that he would soon punish those who perpetrate this evil (cf. Mic 2:5). Can you see how God is mindful of the poor? In Matt...

⏰Friday of the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time 2 (20 July 2018) 📖Isa 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8; Isa 38:10, 11, 12abcd and 16 (R.v.17cd); Matt 12:1-8 My dear, I pray for you today, that God may bless your day with good fortunes and also make all your ventures a success. Amen. All you need to make that materialize is to trust God, and God alone. Indeed, it is better to put trust in God than to trust in men. Note the contrast between God and the Pharisees as we read today. In Isa 38:1-22, Hezekiah cried out to after receiving a...

⏰Thursday of the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time 2 (19 July 2018) 📖Isa 26:7-9, 12, 16-19; Ps 102:13-14ab and 15, 16-18, 19-21 (R.v.20b); Matt 11:28-30 The book of the prophe Isaiah is normally divided into three parts in relation to Israel’s exile: Chapters 1-39 (seen as pre-exilic collections – prophecies before the exile); Chapters 40-55 (exilic collections – prophecies during the exile); Chapters 56-66 (post-exilic collections – prophecies after the exile. Even though Chapters 25-27 are included in the first 39 Chapters, that is the pre-exilic collections, they are actually and rightly considered as belonging to the post-exilic era. These...

⏰Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time 2 (18 July 2018) 📖Isa 10:5-7, 13-16; Ps 94:5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 14-15 (R.v.14a); Matt 11:25-27 The wise know the mind of God, what he wants of us, and then follow it. No one can know the mind of God if it has not been revealed to him by Jesus. The only ones disposed to listen to Jesus are those who humble themselves like little children. It is to these that the mind of God has been revealed (see Matt 11:25-27). The madness and pride of Assyria prevented her from recognizing that she...

⏰Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time 2 (17 July 2018) 📖Isa 7:1-9; Ps 48:2-3ab, 3c-4, 5-6, 7-8 (R.v.9cd); Matt 11:20-24 My dear, I want to let you know that no matter how much the enemy threaten to destroy you; no matter the evil they have declared upon you, as long as God is on the throne, “It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass” (Isa 7:7), Amen. God continues to assure us of his protection and provision. There is nothing we can do without him. He continues to talk to us through the different events...

⏰Monday of the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time 2 (13 July 2020) 📖Isa 1:10-17; Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23 (R.v.23bc); Matt 10:34 – 11:1 Beloved in Christ, at the beginning of this new working week, the prophet Isaiah instructs us that showing love to one another worths more than offering sacrifice to God (see Isa 1:10-17). Remember that we cannot love God perfectly if we have not learnt to love one another. The family is a kind of perfect love that ought to exist among us. In a normal family, everybody supposedly think of what would benefit others, that...