Category: Third Week

⏰Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time Year 2 (28 January 2022 – Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas) 📖2 Sam 11:1-4a, 5-10a, 13-17; Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 6cd-7, 10-11 (R.v.3a); Mark 4:26-34 🎤AN IDLE MIND IS THE DEVIL’S WORKSHOP You see! Not only does the society abhor laziness or idleness, it is dangerous to our spiritual life. Can you not see what it did to David? The right thing was that David would lead the people to war as the king. Instead he stayed back at home whirling away in idleness. It was in that situation that the devil struck...

⏰Thursday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time Year 2 (28 January 2022) 📖2 Sam 7:18-19, 24-29; Ps 132:1-2, 3-5, 11, 12, 13-14 (R. Luke 1:32b); Mark 4:21-25 🎤”YOUR LIGHT MUST SHINE OUT BEFORE OTHERS” (Matt 5:16) Christianity is not a private religion but a relational one. Our lives as Christians have influence on others, positively or negatively. Remember that Jesus is the light of the world (John 8:12) and what we do as Christians is to try and follow him faithfully in order to become like him. Have we been able to become the light of the world too...

⏰Saturday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time Year 2 (27 January 2018) ????2 Sam 12:1-7a, 10-17; Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 16-17 (R.v.12a); Mark 4:35-41 Do you understand what Jesus meant when he said that all authority has been given to him (cf. Matt 28:18)? For me, it means that no other power can withstand him. Do you not see how he defeated the power of the devil in its very kingdom? The sea is often considered as the seat-power of the evil one. Today, while Jesus was passing by, this seat began to react against him (cf. Mark 4:35-41). Imagine...

⏰Wednesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time Year 2 (24 January 2018 – Memorial of St. Francis de Sales) ????2 Sam 7:4-17; Ps 89:4-5, 27-28, 29-30 (R.v.29a); Mark 4:1-20 Did you hear what God said to David concerning his offspring? “When he commits iniquity, I will chasten him… but I will NOT take my merciful love from him” (2 Sam 7:14-15). That kind of everlasting love is what we are called to emulate. Jesus goes about taking this mercy to the people in places where they are. This is why he was mostly found in synagogues and beside the...

⏰Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time II (23 Jan 2018) ????2 Sam 6:12b-15, 17-19; Ps 24:7, 8, 9, 10 (R.v.8ab); Mark 3:31-35 ????When I come into your presence, I am so happy; When I come into your presence, I am so glad; In your presence there is anointing, and the spirit moves around me; In your presence, anointing breaks the yoke.???? There is nothing as beautiful as being in the presence of God and having God in your life. For the people of Israel, the Ark of the Covenant is a sign of the presence of God. When...

⏰Monday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time II (22 Jan 2018) ????2 Sam 5:1-7, 10; Ps 59:20, 21-22, 25-26 (R.v.25a); Mark 3:22-30 My dear, in this new working week, I pray that nothing shall stand in your way to achieving your destiny and that you may emerge victorious in all things especially in your spiritual battles against the enemies of Christ. Amen. Whatever God says you shall be is what you must be. The enemy might try for a while to plant an evil seed in your life in order to bring you pains, but your faith in God...