Category: Ordinary Time
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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…
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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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Sweet and Sour
November 18, 2022 – Friday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111822.cfm) One of the popular Filipino dishes is “Sweet and Sour” which could be of fish, pork or chicken mostly. Even in any celebration, one could have this dish. Its sweetness and the sourness and the balance of…
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When God Visits Us
November 17, 2022 – Thursday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111722.cfm) How conscious am I of God’s many visits? Certainly, the Lord visits us because God desires that we shall be blessed by His divine presence. Yet, we could be more preoccupied with many things in life that…
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How do I respond to God?
November 16, 2022 – Wednesday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111622.cfm) There are three kinds of people in today’s parable of Jesus. In each, the Lord calls us to identify ourselves and draws us to be converted to him if we would find ourselves with those who were…
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Being Lukewarm leads to death
November 15, 2022 – Tuesday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111522.cfm) When a heart becomes “lukewarm,” it is neither moved nor affected in any way from what is happening around. A lukewarm-heart becomes indifferent, denying or incapable of understanding others and seeing others or worst no compassion towards…
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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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The Call of Duty
November 7, 2022 – 32nd Week in ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/110722.cfm) It must have been difficulty and almost an impossible task to do what Jesus said to his disciples. Not to cause another to sin and to forgive one’s brother or sister many times are reasons why the Apostles of Jesus…
A DOSE OF GOD TODAY 