Category: Fr. Jom Baring, CSsR
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We are Products of our Family Stories and of God’s Story
December 17, 2022 – Second Day of the Misa de Aguinaldo Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/121722.cfm) Each of us is a product of our vast family history. It is not that we are doomed and chained by the past, but we are being enriched by a vast history. Our families have our own history…
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GOSPEL INFLUENCERS
December 16, 2022 – Misa de Aguinaldo, National Youth Day 2022 Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/121622.cfm) Today, on this first day of Misa de Aguinaldo, the Philippine Church also dedicates this day as the National Youth Day with its theme: “Mary Arose and Went with Haste.” With this emphasis of the gift of the…
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Look around and See how God surprises us
December 11, 2022 – Third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/121122.cfm) Recently, Bro. Karl Gaspar, CSsR, a confrere of mine was hospitalized for three weeks and was admitted in the Intensive Care Unit due to complications of his veins for his regular dialysis. When he got better and can finally…
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OUR FAITH IN THE MESSIAH
December 4, 2022 – Second Sunday of Advent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/120422.cfm) Have you ever encountered a leader who is filled with vanity and only thinks of himself or herself? A leader in a group or in an organization, or in a company or community or in a nation who has become pretentious…
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We too can bring others closer to Jesus
November 30, 2022 – Wednesday Feast of St. Andrew, Apostle Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/113022.cfm) Who was that significant person who brought you closer to the Church and closer to Jesus? I am sure, each of us here has a particular person or people who became significant in our faith journey. Others could have…
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LONGING AND HOPING IN OUR EVERYDAY LIFE
November 27, 2022 – First Sunday of Advent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112722.cfm) Have you been so overwhelmed by your issues and enormous problems at the moment? Or by the tragedies and traumas in your life? Or are you simply so caught up with the demands of work, family life, studies and in reaching…
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What gives you hope?
November 24, 2022 – Thursday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112422.cfm) It’s gloomy and depressing, filled with death and destruction. Chaos is overwhelming and seems to be there is nowhere to go but a horrifying end. These are the images that we could imagine as the Book of…
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A Contradiction
November 23, 2022 – Red Wednesday, 34th Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112322.cfm) A friend who believes in integrity and honesty in his work, who is filled with passion to be at the service of others found himself in an environment of conflicts and contradictions. In his desire to be fair…
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Who do we follow?
November 22, 2022 – Tuesday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112222.cfm) Who do we follow? What do we follow? What matters to us most? These are three questions that brings us into the message of the readings today. These will allow us also to see what is in…
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A King at our side
November 20, 2022 – Solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112022.cfm) What is your image of a king? How does he look like? What does he do? With so much influence from the cartoons, anime and movies that I watched since I was young, I would…
A DOSE OF GOD TODAY 