Category: Sunday Homlies
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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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What brings you to life?
February 12, 2023 – 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021223.cfm) What motivates and inspires you? What fulfills your day? What brings you to life? Depending of our status, situations and circumstances in life, our answers may vary from God, family, children, wife or husband, community, our career or business, our…
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SPIRIT-Behind
February 12, 2022 – 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021223.cfm) “Do you believe in chain letters? Or nowadays we may call it as Copy-Paste & Post OR-ELSE…. Facebook, Messenger, or Twitter posts?” At times, I have been asked about this, & I find myself giving the same answer. I say:…
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BE A SALT, BE A LIGHT
February 5, 2023 – Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/020523.cfm) I once encountered an old leper in Mandaue City when I was a first year Seminarian in the college. His name was Tatay Mike. He was abandoned by his own family in the leprosarium in the 60s when leprosy began…
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Influencing Influencers
February 5, 2023 – Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/020523.cfm) It was once told that weeks after ordination, four newly-ordained priests were summoned by the bishop for a meeting in his house. As they have settled down in his office, the bishop addressed them: “Young fathers, I have here some…
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Being Blessed from God’s Perspective
January 29, 2023 – Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/012923.cfm) How do we understand being Blessed? We usually think of a life that is blessed on the level of having material wealth, success, prosperity – like having a good family, a prosperous business, a successful career or a good paying…
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Price of Faith
January 29, 2023 – 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/012923.cfm) A story once told about a beggar who owns nothing but his tin rice bowl to beg. He is particularly ashamed of begging that he would just bow his head & cannot even look at the eyes of others. But…
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Better Anew
January 22, 2023 – Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/012223.cfm) If and when given another chance in life, would you do it again or would you do it anew? Would you live life as before or much better than before? Surely, if and when given another chance in life, we…
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Our Capacity to Receive and Embrace
January 15, 2023 – Sunday, Feast of the Sto. Niño Is 9:1-6; Eph 1:3-6, 15-18; Mt 18:1-5,10 A study by the Save the Children revealed that one in three households around the world reported violence during the Covid-19 pandemic.[1] The study also found that 1 in 6 children suffered violence at home. This study also…
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GREAT in God
January 15, 2023 – Feast of the Sto. Niño de Cebu Is 9:1-6; Eph 1:3-6, 15-18; Mt 18:1-5,10 During our Wednesday novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, we always ask our mother to help us learn to adapt to our growing children. Praying this, we acknowledge before the Lord that as Christians and in…
A DOSE OF GOD TODAY 