Category: Christmas Season
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Time of Letting Go. Time of Letting God. Time of Welcoming
December 31, 2020 – 7th Day in the Octave of Christmas and the Last Day of the Year Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/123120.cfm) We have reached the last day of the year of 2020. We have been through a lot this year. There are too many to mention them. Not just to few of […]
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Our Longing for God
December 30, 2020 – Wednesday 6th Day in the Octave of Christmas Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/123020.cfm) Homily During the Season of Advent, we have been invited to wait patiently and to long lovingly God’s coming. The season was to prepare our hearts and minds to consciously welcome the Lord and celebrate fully the […]
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God finds refuge in us
December 28, 2020 – Feast of the Holy Innocents Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/122820.cfm) Homily God looking for a refuge? Can you imagine that? Yes. This happened. Joseph had to bring Mary and the baby Jesus out of danger and find refuge, to find a safe haven for them. The cruelty and the violence […]
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GIVE THANKS. EMBRACE. PRAY.
December 27, 2020 – Solemnity of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/122720.cfm) Homily Few days before Christmas, I gave an Advent Recollection to a group of Church volunteers. At the beginning of the recollection, I asked them to describe their gratefulness as well as their feelings at […]
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Christmas Message (Jn 1:1-18)
Above all, it’s about Christmas than holidays “And the Word became Flesh, and Dwelt amongst us” It has always been a great honor and pleasure to be visited by someone special in our lives. Whenever special people pay us a visit in our home, we usually do our best to be a good worthy host […]
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CHRISTMAS 2020: God finds a way
Homily On December 20, a policeman shot dead in broad-daylight a mother and her son. The mother was shot twice. The first was shot while she was embracing her to keep him from the policeman. The second was made when she already fell on the ground. It was merciless. It was not just heartbreaking, but […]
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You are my beloved child
In God’s heart and eyes, we are His beloved children. And by virtue of our baptism, we are consecrated to be God’s children. We are His beloved, not because we did anything, not because we proved ourselves or not because of what we did and have achieved in life. God still and always loves us whatever we do or whatever happens in our life, whether born out of wedlock, adopted, unwanted, or raised by irresponsible parents.
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God making himself known to us
January 5, 2020 – The Epiphany of the Lord Click here for the readings http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/010520.cfm Homily shared by Fr. Mar Masangcay, CSsR – a Redemptorist Missionary based in South Korea. Once a woman asked me to bless her Rosary beads. After blessing it, I said, “Surely, this rosary must be very precious & now would […]
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Following ones dream
This feast tells us also of the story of the three magi or wise men who have been in search of the shining star. These three men who were probably, astrologers, had the same goal. They have been following and searching for this mysterious star that had appeared in heaven. The star that they had seen could have been their deepest dream.
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Allowing the Lord to look at us intimately
January 4, 2020 – Saturday before Epiphany Click here for the readings http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/010420.cfm Homily Jesus began to call his first disciples. The first two of them were John (the beloved) and Andrew who later introduced his brother Simon to Jesus. Simon has been called by Jesus as Cephas or Peter, which means the rock. John […]
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