Category: LiturgIcal Year B
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Again OR Anew
November 21, 2021 – Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112121.cfm) “If & when given another chance, would you do it again or anew? Would you do it as before or better than before?” 2014, before going to Korea to minister our Filipino Migrants & workers, […]
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LIFE-lived In & With CHRIST
November 14, 2021 – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111421.cfm) Corrie Ten Boom, a Nazi concentration camp Christian survivor, now a well-known inspirational writer, once said: “If you look at the world, you will be distressed. If you look within yourself, you will be depressed. If you look at God, […]
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GENEROSITY IN OUR POVERTY
November 7, 2021 – 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/110721.cfm) At the beginning of this pandemic, if you can remember, there was a kind of panic buying that happened. When the government announced to impose ECQ then MECQ in major cities, people lined up in markets and supermarkets to secure […]
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GENEROUS HEART
November 7, 2021 -32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/110721.cfm) I remember once on a Sunday mass, after preaching about the boy (our so-called accidental hero) in the gospel about the Multiplication of Loaves, a small boy went up in the sanctuary during the offertory bringing with him his offering. He […]
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HOW IS OUR WAY OF LOVING?
October 31, 2021 – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/103121.cfm) HOW DO I LOVE? WHY DO I LOVE? Have you asked yourself this question? Or have you asked how is your way of loving? Kyle (not his real name) seemed to be so kind and warmhearted around his friends. He […]
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EXPERIENCED LOVE
October 31, 2021 – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/103121.cfm) It was once said that the Dalai Lama was invited as the keynote speaker to a gathering of world leaders. The world leaders were looking forward for this gathering to hear from the Dalai Lama about his message to the […]
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Heart’s Desire
October 24, 2021 – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/102421.cfm) “What is your heart’s desire?” Surely we know and are familiar with the words: Your heart’s desire. It somehow describes the steering and longings of our heart directed towards something in the future or yet-to come. Its fulfillment or completion […]
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WANTED: Responsible Leaders
October 17, 2021 – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/101721.cfm) “Great power comes with great responsibility”. Surely you have heard of these words before. These are the very words of Peter Parker alias “Spiderman” and the very message of the movie “Spiderman 1”. Perhaps you may have only heard these […]
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THE STORY OF US
October 10, 2021 – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/101021.cfm) In a recent Facebook post, a young man named Seth Adam Smith who, after being married for a year and a half, realized, and said: “Marriage is not for me.” Why…? After all these months of marriage, eventually he comes […]
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ANGELS WITH ONE WING
October 3, 2021 – 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/100321.cfm) A wise man once said, “Each one of us are angels… But, with one wing. We can only fly by embracing each other.” Reflecting on these words, such wisdom somehow reflects our daily experience and journey of being human and […]