Category: Season of Advent
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WE ARE SIGNS OF GOD
December 18, 2022 – Fourth Sunday of Advent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/121822.cfm) Do you ask signs from God? Certainly, there are many of us who can relate well in asking the Lord to give us signs especially when we make big decisions in life. Even when we become desperate over life issues and…
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Response-ability
December 18, 2022 – Fourth Sunday of Advent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/121822.cfm) Normal for any man to defend himself when being held accountable for the things he did not do. Normal for us to ask why and to demand justice for being held responsible for the actions we did not commit. Saan ang…
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IN GOD’S OWN TIME
As we approach the end of the Advent season and embrace the spirit of the Christmas season, let me offer this reflection. Because we Christians have regularly entered into the four-year period of Advent for a very long time through the centuries, there are times when we hardly give full attention to the significance…
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GOSPEL INFLUENCERS
December 16, 2022 – Misa de Aguinaldo, National Youth Day 2022 Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/121622.cfm) Today, on this first day of Misa de Aguinaldo, the Philippine Church also dedicates this day as the National Youth Day with its theme: “Mary Arose and Went with Haste.” With this emphasis of the gift of the…
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Look around and See how God surprises us
December 11, 2022 – Third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/121122.cfm) Recently, Bro. Karl Gaspar, CSsR, a confrere of mine was hospitalized for three weeks and was admitted in the Intensive Care Unit due to complications of his veins for his regular dialysis. When he got better and can finally…
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NAGMAHAL AT UMASA
An Advent Reflection by Mabie Gonzales. Mabie is the Assistant Over-All Goal Animator of RYM-Iloilo (Redemptorist Youth Ministry) and a Youth Mission Volunteer. Advent is a “Season of Joyful Waiting, a Season of Hope.” This is what the song, “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” beautifully describes to us. This season prepares us for Christmas. Well,…
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OUR FAITH IN THE MESSIAH
December 4, 2022 – Second Sunday of Advent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/120422.cfm) Have you ever encountered a leader who is filled with vanity and only thinks of himself or herself? A leader in a group or in an organization, or in a company or community or in a nation who has become pretentious…
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CHANCE
December 4, 2022 – Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/120422.cfm) “Repent and Believe the Gospel”, sounds familiar? When was the last time we heard those words? We usually hear those familiar words during Ash Wednesday, when we receive the ashes to mark the beginning of our Lenten observance. This call…
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LONGING AND HOPING IN OUR EVERYDAY LIFE
November 27, 2022 – First Sunday of Advent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112722.cfm) Have you been so overwhelmed by your issues and enormous problems at the moment? Or by the tragedies and traumas in your life? Or are you simply so caught up with the demands of work, family life, studies and in reaching…
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Already yet Still
November 27, 2022 – First Sunday of Advent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112722.cfm) A mother once knocks at his son’s door and have this following this exchange of words. Mother: “Son, wake up.” But the son said: “Mom, I don’t want to get up.” Mom continued: “Son, Get up now. You have to go…
A DOSE OF GOD TODAY 