Category: Season of Lent
-
TO DO MORE AND BE MORE
March 11, 2022 – Friday of the First Week of Lent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031122.cfm) Is it enough to only do what is comfortable for me? Is it enough to show to others that I am charitable? Is it enough to do what is required of being good and being pious? Is it…
-
MORE AVAILABLE FOR GOD AND FOR OTHERS
March 10, 2022 – Thursday of the First Week of Lent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031022.cfm) What are we supposed to ask actually? What is it that we should really seek? Wealth? Long life? Success and achievements in our careers? Happy family life? Peaceful life? Jesus told us to ask and to seek. Yet,…
-
Into Temptation
March 6, 2022 – First Sunday of Lent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030622.cfm) Three men and an elderly priest had once a discussion. The priest asked: “supposing a corrupt politician approaches you, gives you lots of money and promises to grant you more favors if you vote and support him in the coming election,…
-
Fasting
March 4, 2022 – Friday after Ash Wednesday Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030422.cfm) Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence from meat. Though not obliged but encouraged for below 18 & above 60 years old faithful, Catholics during Lent practice abstinence from meat during Fridays of Lent. We should understand that fasting is not…
-
Ash Wednesday (Mercy)
March 2, 2022 – Ash Wednesday Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030222.cfm) MERCY. Lenten is all about Mercy. As we begin the season of Lent today, better for us to have a good understanding of God’s mercy being continuously offered to us. Often, we think of Lent with dread because we often associate it with…
-
WHO ARE WE IN THE PASSION OF CHRIST?
March 28, 2021 – Palm Sunday Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032821.cfm) Four newly-ordained priests were summoned by the bishop for their first assignment. The bishop said, “Now, my sons, after all your theological studies and ordination as well as few months’ vacation, I am sure, you are all ready and excited for your new…
-
MISUNDERSTOOD GOD
March 22, 2021 – Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032321.cfm) A motivational speaker Terry Mark once said, “The world today is ruined more by misunderstanding than by hatred. Hatred is born out of misunderstanding”. Misunderstanding is something we are most familiar with in life. True indeed we know…
-
TO SEE JESUS IS TO BELIEVE IN JESUS
March 21, 2021 – Fifth Sunday of Lent by Fr. Manoling Thomas, CSsR Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032121-YearB.cfm) Today’s Gospel begins with “some Greeks” approaching Philip with a request: “to see” Jesus! The Greek word used means: “to visit or to meet with.” But for John “to see Jesus” means “to believe in Jesus”!…
-
Lesson from Langka
March 21, 2021 – Fifth Sunday of Lent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032121-YearB.cfm) Fruit-bearing process of Jackfruit tree is indeed amazing. Summertime during my childhood days, my parents used to ask me to strike with a bolo the trunk of the jackfruit tree, (we call langka), so that its tree would bear much fruits.…
-
Work for God OR Do God’s work?
March 17, 2021 – Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031721.cfm) Thomas Green, a well-known Jesuit spiritual director once pointed out that for those who are in one way or another involved with apostolic work and ministry, there is a big difference between working for God and doing God’s…
A DOSE OF GOD TODAY 