Category: Sixth Week

⏰Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time II (21 February 2020) 📖Jam 2:14-24, 26; Ps 112:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6 (R.v.1b); Mark 8:34 – 9:1 🎤FAITH AND ACTION My dear, the psalmist again reminds us today that those who take delight in the Lord’s commandments are indeed blessed. Listen to what the psalmist says about such a person, “Riches and wealth are in his house; his justice stands firm forever. A light rises in the darkness for [him]; he is generous, merciful and just” (Ps 112:3-4). Can you see that it pays to be just and obedient to God? Indeed, it...

⏰Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time II (19 Feb 2020) 📖Jam 1:19-27; Ps 15:2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5 (R.v.1b); Mark 8:22-26 🎤FAN INTO FLAME YOUR FAITH The gradual healing of the blind man in Mark 8:22-26 is a good description of our relationship with God. Just as the blind man gradually regained his sight, we gradually grow in Christian Maturity and God is always patient with us even in our many failings. But it is expected that that growth must be steady and devoid of any hypocricy. Hence, St. James asks us expel from us everything that will block us...

⏰Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time II (12 Feb 2017) ????Jam 1:1-11; Ps 119:67, 68, 71, 72, 75, 76 (R.v.77); Mark 8:11-13 It is a new working week. I pray that God may visit you with renewed strength to do all you can this week to follow him faithfully and do your work with the good of others in mind. May you spend the end of this week recounting in testimonies, the multiple blessings of God. Amen. I often wonder what Jesus would call our generation now if he called his own generation a wicked one simply because...