Category: Year 1
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WHEN GRUMBLING BECOMES A PATTERN
July 21, 2021 – Wednesday 16th Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/072121.cfm) How difficult and annoying it will be to listen to a person who grumbles every now and then. It will truly be. It sucks out every positive energy and even inner joy to both, to the one who grumbles […]
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GOD OFFERS US FRIENDSHIP
July 15, 2021 – Thursday 15th Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071521.cfm) I AM who am is God’s name given to Moses. This name reveals to us that God remains present, sees and listens to the present situation of the people. Indeed, God’s name and presence expressed God’s concern. Moses was […]
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Hapag
July 14, 2021 – Wednesday 15h Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071421.cfm) Surely we are all now familiar of the painting called “Hapag ng Pag-asa” painted by Joey Velasco. Surely you have seen it. How could you have missed it? Like the Last Supper painting, Hapag is a painting of Jesus […]
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GOD’S RECONCILING PRESENCE IN THE HEART OF MARY
June 12, 2021 – Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Philippine Independence Day Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061221.cfm) “The love of Christ impels us.” Paul reminds us in his Second Letter to the Corinthians. This means that this love indeed urges and motivates us to go beyond and become the person God wants […]
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Blessing in Disguise
June 5, 2021 – Saturday of the 9th Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/060521.cfm) A certain village trickster would constantly make fun of his church devotee neighbor. At times he would say: “What’s the point of praying, where and when God is not even helping you.” In response, the poor lady […]
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Marriage: TO Whom and FOR Whom?
June 3, 2021 – Thursday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/060321.cfm) Having married to his childhood sweetheart only a year & a half, in fear & anxiety, a man told his father: “Dad, Marriage is not for me.” After few minutes of silence, the father gave this advice: […]
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Feast of Gratitude
May 23, 2021 – Pentecost Sunday + Manny Cabajar, C.Ss.R. D.D. Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/052321-Day.cfm) Pentecost is a big Jewish feast of gratitude for the harvest. Jesus comes to sow God’s Spirit. We see this Spirit working wonders among the blind, the sick, the lame and hungry. Jesus is condemned but returns to […]
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40 DAYS JOURNEY WITH JESUS
Reflections by Fr. Manoling Thomas, CSsR Insights from the “Scripture In Church” periodicals, and Krempa’s Daily Homilies, vol. 3, are combined with the personal reflections of this writer ASH WEDNESDAY 2021 [Joel 2: 12-18 / 2 Cor. 5: 20-6: 2 / Mt. 6: 1-6, 16-18] This day ushers in, the beginning of the Season of […]
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Prayer: A Relationship
February 23, 2021 – Tuesday of the First Week of Lent Fr. Gibo Dandoy, CSsR Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022321.cfm) I often wonder why many Catholics, when asked to lead in prayer, during some social gatherings and family events, would often decline. Even those who are regular mass-goers would do the same. They reason […]
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FASTING TO BE LIFE-GIVING
February 19, 2021 – Friday after Ash Wednesday Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021921.cfm) We always understand the religious practice of “fasting” in reducing our food intake. This religious practice which already begun even in the ancient times still takes a central place in today’s Season of Lent. The Church, in fact, asks us to […]
A DOSE OF GOD TODAY 