Category: Twenty-Seventh Week

⏰Friday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time 2 (12 October 2018) 📖Gal 3:7-14; Ps 111:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6 (R.v.5b); Luke 11:15-26 May the peace of Christ be with you. What is the point which St. Paul tried to drive home in Gal 3:7-14? Was he really condemning the law? No! We must try not to misinterpret Paul as doing that. Paul was a Jew and a Pharisee at that. He had respect for Moses, and Moses was the one who received the Law from God. So St Paul must be understood as elevating an understanding of the spirit of the...

⏰Tuesday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time 2 (09 October 2018) 📖Gal 1:13-24; Ps 139:1-3, 13-14, 15 (R.v.24b); Luke 10:38-42 My dear, the presence of God in your life can create so much difference in the kind of fruit you bear. Yesterday, we talked about bearing the fruit of love instead of discrimination; it is only by the presence of God in our life that we can choose to love. In Gal 1:13-24, St. Paul testified that his zeal to preach was informed by his encounter with Christ, and the content of his message was a revelation from Christ,...

⏰Monday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time 2 (08 October 2018) 📖Gal 1:6-12; Ps 111:1b-2, 7-8, 9 and 10c (R.v.5b); Luke 10:25-37 May the peace and love of Christ reign in your life in this new week and beyond. Amen. At the beginning of this new working week, we are called to a reorientation of the value and understanding of love, especially love of God. This is because many think that they love God whereas they are actually filled with hate. St John, in his first letter reminds us that we cannot love God genuinely if we cannot love...

⏰Saturday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time 2 (13 October 2018) 📕Gal 3:22-29; Ps 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 (R.v.8a); Luke 11:27-28 Yesterday, we tried to evaluate the position of the law in the life of a Christian, the righteous. We concluded that what St Paul condemned was the wrong application of the law which makes us slaves of the law instead of free children of God (see Mark 2:23-28). Using an idea of an ancient Roman practice where slaves are employed to the households of nobles to train their children, St Paul explains the place of faith and the law...

⏰Thursday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time 2 (06 October 2016) 📕Gal 3:1-5; Luke 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75 (R.v.68); Luke 11:5-13 May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you. Amen. The outburst of St Paul in Gal 3:1-5 obviously indicates that some Galatians were already yielding to the deception of those Jews who insisted on the circumcision of the gentiles before they could become Christians (cf. Gal 1:7; Acts 15:1). They were more contented with pleasing man than with pleasing God. What happens to us when...

⏰Wednesday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time 2 (10 October 2018) 📕Gal 2:1-2, 7-14; Ps 117:1-2 (R. Mark 16:15); Luke 11:1-4 One of our grandfathers in faith, Msgr Pius Nwaobi has a funny way of passing this message of firmness. He would say, “I must say the truth! If you like, cut off my head, it will bounce like John the Baptist’s head…” A major criterion that separates martyrdom from other kinds of suffering and death is the firmness and consistency in the profession of faith especially when it becomes very difficult to do so. Consider the anger of...