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Ordinary Time / Twenty-Third / Weekdays / Year II

HAVE YOU TOLD GOD ABOUT IT?

⏰Tuesday of the Twenty-Third Week of Ordinary Time 2 (11 September 2018) 📕1 Cor 6:1-11; Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4 3-4, 5-6a and 9b (R.v.4a); Luke 6:12-19 May the peace of Christ in all its fullness dwell with you. Amen. The Psalmist says in Psalm 34:19, “Many are the troubles of the just, but the Lord delivers them from them all.” Jesus himself says, “Come to me, all of you who work hard and who carry heavy burdens, and I will refresh you” (Matt 11:28). One problem that we normally have, as St Paul hinted in his letter to the Corinthians (cf....

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Feasts and Solemnities / Ordinary Time / Weekdays / Year II

“LEAD ME, LORD, IN YOUR JUSTICE” (Ps 5:9a)

⏰Monday of the Twenty-Third Week of Ordinary Time 2 (05 September 2016 – Memorial of St. Teresa of Calcutta) ????1 Cor 5:1-8; Ps 5:5-6, 7, 12 (R.v.9a); Luke 6:6-11 ????”LEAD ME, LORD, IN YOUR JUSTICE” (Ps 5:9a) My dear, it is the beginning of a new working week. This new week promises good tidings for you. And you know what! God is out to intervene in whatever that concerns you. No matter the effort of the enemy to the contrary, you shall continue to make progress.???? Indeed the enemy labours day and night to ensure that your miracle and progress...

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Feasts and Solemnities / Ordinary Time / Weekdays / Year II

TO DO YOUR WILL IS MY DESIRE (Ps 40:8)

⏰Saturday of the Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time 2 (05 Sept. 2020) 📖1 Cor 4:6b-15; Ps 145:17-18, 19-20, 21 (R.v.18a); Luke 6:1-5 ????TO DO YOUR WILL IS MY DESIRE (Ps 40:8) Whose will do you do in your worship of God? Your own will or the will of God? Do you even know that it is possible for you to be doing your personal will while thinking that you are doing the will of God? Consider the actions of the members of the Church in Corinth. Their internal division in that was a result of their thinking that they are...

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Ordinary Time / Twenty-Second Week / Weekdays / Year II

JESUS MAKES THE DIFFERENCE!

⏰Friday of the Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time 2 (07 September 2018) 📕1 Cor 4:1-5; Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 27-28, 39-40 (R.v.39a); Luke 5:33-39 May the peace and love of Christ in all its fullness abide with you. Amen. Reading through Luke 5:33-39, it might not be so right to say that the fasting of the disciples of John the Baptist and the Pharisees was not right. They were fulfilling one of the essential requirements of the Law. The problem is that they did not realize that someone greater than Moses was in their midst (cf. Heb 3:3). In Rev 21:5,...

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First Week / Ordinary Time / Weekdays / Year II

… APPOINT FOR US A KING TO GOVERN US LIKE ALL THE NATIONS

⏰Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time Year 2 (17 January 2020 – Memorial of St. Anthony, Abbot) 📖1 Sam 8:4-7, 10-22a; Ps 89:16-17, 18-19 (R.v.2a); Mark 2:1-12 🎤”… APPOINT FOR US A KING TO GOVERN US LIKE ALL THE NATIONS” (1 Sam 8:5) Social influence is not bad in itself but if it does not take us to our ultimate goal, which is found in the spiritual realm, it would be a scam.? Consider its effects in both 1 Sam 8:1ff and Mark 2:1-12. In the first, the people asked Samuel to appoint a king for them, and...

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Ordinary Time / Weekdays / Year II

“A HUMBLED, CONTRITE HEART YOU WILL NOT SPURN” (Ps 51:17)

⏰Thursday of the First Week in Ordinary Time Year 2 (16 January 2020) 📖1 Sam 4:1-11; Ps 44:10, 11, 14-15, 24-25 (R.v.27b); Mark 1:40-45 🎤”A HUMBLED, CONTRITE HEART YOU WILL NOT SPURN” (Ps 51:17) The word of God in 2 Chron 7:14 says, “… If my people who bear my name humble themselves, and pray and look for me and turn from their wicked ways, then I myself will hear from heaven and forgive their sins and restore their land.” That exactly was the difference between the Israelites who brought the ark of the covenant into the camp to ginger...

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Ordinary Time / Weekdays / Year II

…SAY, ‘SPEAK, LORD, FOR YOUR SERVANT HEARS

⏰Wednesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time Year 2 (15 January 2020) 📖1 Sam 3:1-10, 19-20; Ps 40:2 and 5, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10 (R.v.8a, 9a); Mark 1:29-39 🎤”…SAY, ‘SPEAK, LORD, FOR YOUR SERVANT HEARS’” (1 Sam 3:9) Prov 22:6 says, “Teach the child the way he should go, and he will not stray from it even when he is old.” The truth is that many of us are what we are today because our parents started on time to show us the way that leads to life. Hannah took the boy Samuel and placed him in the Temple so...

First Week / Ordinary Time / Weekdays / Year II

TAKE IT TO THE LORD IN PRAYER

⏰Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time Year 2 (14 January 2020) 📖1 Sam 1:9-20; 1 Sam 2:1, 4-5, 6-7, 8bcd (R.v.1a); Mark 1:21b-28 🎤TAKE IT TO THE LORD IN PRAYER 🎼What a friend we have in Jesus! All our sins and grief to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in prayer! Oh, what peace we often forfeit, Oh, what needless pain we bear; All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer.🎷 After receiving the comforting words from her husband, as we saw yesterday (cf. 1 Sam 1:8), Hannah went to open her...

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First Week / Ordinary Time / Weekdays / Year II

AM I NOT MORE TO YOU THAN TEN SONS?

⏰Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time Year 2 (13 January 2020) 📖1 Sam 1:1-8; Ps 116:12-13, 14 and 17, 18-19 (R.v.17a); Mark 1:14-20 🎤”AM I NOT MORE TO YOU THAN TEN SONS?” (1 Sam 1:8) My dear, I welcome you back fully to the ordinary time of the year. As we have always noted in this forum, there is nothing ordinary about the Ordinary Time; it is just the way of talking about the orderly way in which it is arranged in 34 weeks. Again, in ordinary time, the green colour is mainly used at liturgical celebrations. Green...