Category: Liturgical Year A
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ARK: Acts of Random Kindness
February 23, 2020 – 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/022320.cfm) Homily In the comedy film Evan Almighty, God said to Evan Baxter: “If you want to change the world, build an ARK.” Only later after all the trouble of exactly building a big ark that Evan Baxter realized that an…
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Being consistent with who you are now with what you do
Important here is the consistency between our being and our doing now as Christian. In a way, Jesus is teaching us that our actions must reflect our being now as blessed and blessing people. In other words, Be consistent with who you are now with what you do, as Christian.
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Light of the World and Salt of the Earth
February 9, 2020 – 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/020920.cfm) Homily Let me tell you two stories. First, ten years ago I met, Nanay Elisabeth, a leprosy infected-old lady. She was confined in a hospital in Cebu that especially takes care of leprosy patients. Due to her illness, she never…
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Sugar within our Communities
February 9, 2020 – 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/020920.cfm) Homily Weeks after ordination, four newly-ordained priests were summoned by the bishop for a meeting in his house. As they have settled down in his office, the bishop addressed them: “Young fathers, I have here some piece of stone, cotton,…
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You are a Light of the world
February 1, 2020 – Feast of the Presentation of the Lord Click here for the readings (http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/020220.cfm) Homily Usually every Sunday some families gather together in the church not only to celebrate Eucharist but also to attend and witness the baptism of children to become new members of their respective family, parish and of the…
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Responding in gratitude
January 26, 2020 – 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time: National Bible Sunday Click here for the readings http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/012620.cfm Homily I am sure that each of us here has our own experience of God, an experience that made us confident and changed us to be more grateful to God and to respond with grateful heart to the…
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Repentance: A call for everyone
January 26, 2020 – Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/012620.cfm Homily If and when given another chance in life, would you do it again or would you do it anew? Would you live life as before or much better than before? Surely, if and when given another chance in life, we…
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We are God’s beloved Children
January 19, 2020 – Feast of the Sto. Niño de Cebu Homily shared by Fr. Mar Masangcay, CSsR, a Filipino Redemptorist Missionary based in South Korea. In our Wednesday novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, we always ask our mother to help us learn to adapt to our growing children. Praying this, we acknowledge…
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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…
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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…
A DOSE OF GOD TODAY 