Category: Liturgical Year C
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All-Ready LOVE
February 19, 2023 – Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021923.cfm) In the comedy film Evan Almighty, God said to Evan Baxter: “If you want to change the world, build an ARK.” Only later after the fuss of exactly building a big ark that Evan Baxter realized that an ark simply…
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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…
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Our Witnessing of HIM
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) Usually during Eucharist, after the homily, we stand up and renew our faith by saying the words: “I believe in God, the Father Almighty..” These words are the very foundation of our Christian faith and…
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THE END OF TIME IS A JOYFUL ONE
November 13, 2022 – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111322.cfm) How would the end of time look like? What would happen to us and to the world? When the pandemic struck us in 2020, I have friends who really asked if that was the beginning of the end of time.…
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Of Life BEFORE Death
November 13, 2022 – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111322.cfm) Whenever death & disasters happen in our lives, we cannot help but raise the question about the end-time or the end of the world. Ever-present war, pandemic, famine, pestilence, super typhoons, tsunami, hunger, earthquakes, flooding, landslides, and countless death-crimes in…
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LIVING and DYING. LIFE and DEATH.
November 6, 2022 – 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/110622.cfm) Are you living to die? Or are you dying to live? Do we seek to give life? Or do we suck out life? We have just celebrated All Souls’ Day and remembered the lives of our departed loved ones. We…
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Of Life Beyond
November 6, 2022 – 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/110622.cfm) Last week and even week before last, we cannot help but find ourselves thinking about our experiences of death & life. Not only we were remembering our dearly beloved departed brothers & sister, we are also praying for the souls…
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Seeking what matters most in our life
October 30, 2022 – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/103022.cfm) What do I seek in life? Love and acceptance? Understanding and friendship? Comfort and contentment? Health and wealth? In seeking what matters most in our life, we could experience discouragement, rejection, failure, pain or even shame. We know that not…
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Tampo
October 30, 2022 – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/103022.cfm) A man once approached an elderly priest and asked, “Father, how come it seems that God does not speak to His people anymore? He used to speak so beautifully with such power and clarity to our prophets and apostles. But…
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Towards a Humble recognition of our failures
October 23, 2022 – 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/102322.cfm) Have you ever been judged because of what you have done before? Or because of a mistake or failure or sin that you have committed that people around you believed that you are hopeless and beyond redemption? It is truly…
A DOSE OF GOD TODAY 