Category: Season of Easter
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RISE UP & BE READY
May 16, 2021 – Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/051621-Ascension.cfm) Somehow these insights and thoughts offer us much deeper meaning and appreciation of our faith in the Lord’s resurrection. Easter proclaims the Lord has indeed risen. And this would mean that our risen Lord is not only alive…
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Grow Up for Better LIFE
May 9, 2021 – Sixth Sunday of Easter Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/050921.cfm) “They said if you love someone, you set them free. If they come back again, till the end, you are meant to be.” Does it ring a bell? Sounds familiar, no? That’s a line from a popular song sung by Barbara…
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CALLED TO BE SHEPHERD
April 25, 2021 – Fourth Sunday of Easter; Good Shepherd Sunday + Manny Cabajar, C.Ss.R., D.D. Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/Bible/readings/042521.cfm) What is the value of the priesthood in our life? St. John Vianney says, “Without the priest, the passion and death of our Lord would be of no avail. It is the priest…
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“Feel Ko? Feel Mo?”
April 25, 2021 – Fourth Sunday of Easter Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/Bible/readings/042521.cfm) Once while giving a graduation speech, the late-Philippine lady senator Miriam Santiago made a joke. She said… Beside the swimming pool, two girls are having this following conversation. G1 said to G2: Know what? you are going to float (Alam mo.…
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FAITH SHARING
April 18, 2021 – Third Sunday of Easter Bishop Manny Cabajar, C.Ss.R., D.D. (Bishop-Emeritus of Pagadian) Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041821.cfm) If last Sunday’s gospel was on experiencing the risen Lord, today’s gospel is on sharing our faith with others. Christ wants us to be his witnesses which means that we are called first…
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Friendship over a Meal
April 18, 2021 – Third Sunday of Easter Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041821.cfm) “Have you anything to eat?” Jesus asked his disciples. It was a very ordinary question from Jesus yet, this question brought the disciples into a deeper realization of themselves and a deeper encounter with the Risen Jesus in a meal, in…
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The Lord in our Midst, in Flesh & in Need.
April 18, 2021 – Third Sunday of Easter Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041821.cfm “The Lord has risen, indeed. Let us be glad and rejoice. Alleluia”. As Easter people, we Christians proclaim our faith in the Risen Lord – that is, our Lord Jesus Christ has indeed resurrected from death and always with us alive…
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MIGHT NOT BUT MORE THAN WHAT IT SEEMS
April 15, 2021 – Thursday of the Second Week of Easter Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041521.cfm) Usually, we see things not as they are, but as we are. Normally we see things as we are, not as they are. The way we see things are always clouded by our own perspective. The way we…
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BELIEVE
APRIL 11, 2021 – 2ND Sunday of Easter Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041121.cfm) Once a Catholic missionary tried to lead a young atheist to accept God’s grace by faith in Jesus Christ through the Church. But the young man just said, “I will never believe until I have an experience of Christ.” And the…
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GOING FORWARD AND TAKING RISKS
April 9, 2021 – Friday within the Octave of Easter Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040921.cfm) Jesus who was thought to be the Messiah and Son of God was crucified and died on Friday. He was buried in a tomb but on Sunday morning Jesus resurrected. However, his disciples like Simon Peter, Thomas, Nathanael and…
A DOSE OF GOD TODAY 