Tag: Holy Spirit
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UNITY: How are we called to unite in the Spirit?
October 21, 2022 – Friday 29th Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/102122.cfm) Is unity in itself a good thing? Unity in itself is something neutral and it depends on how such unity is to serve its purpose. When thieves, corrupt leaders, those who want to advance their self-interest and people with…
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What influences me?
October 14, 2022 – Friday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/101422.cfm) What usually influences me? There are many influences in our life. These influences can be in the form people who are significant in our life and so we could become dependent on what they tell us. This…
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To live in the Spirit
October 12, 2022 – Wednesday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/101222.cfm) How do I assess my inner-self? Am I dictated by my inmost desires and needs that I tend to be selfish? Am I driven by my passions and impulses to the point that I judge and act…
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To Be-Relate-Live with the Holy Spirit
May 23, 2021 – Pentecost Sunday Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/052321-Day.cfm) Have you ever experienced a time when you are so caught up with the wonders of the moment that made you say how great it is in your own native language? And then, a foreigner caught up with the same experience as you…
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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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THE DESERT. WILD BEASTS. ANGELS.
February 21, 2021 – First Sunday of Lent Fr. Manoling Thomas, CSsR Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022121.cfm) The Gospel evangelists: Matthew, Mark, and Luke mentioned Jesus’ experience of temptation when he spent 40 days in the dessert. Mark has the shortest account, just in two sentences [Mk. 1: 12-13]! Today’s Gospel [Mk. 1: 12-15]…
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God’s Beloved: I am & we are
January 10, 2021 – Feast of the Baptism of the Lord Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/011021.cfm) Who are you? How do people define yourself? How do you define yourself? Henri Nouwen, a known pastoral theologian and spiritual teacher once said: “We are not what we do. We are not what we have. We are…
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There is more in our Faith
January 10, 2021 – Feast of the Baptism of the Lord Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/011021.cfm) Are Filipinos more religious because of Covid-19? This is the title of the analysis of Jayeel Cornelio, PhD, a sociologist of religion.[1] This article was published in October 25 at rappler.com. The article discussed significant subjects particularly on…
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Look at God, and you will be at rest
May 31, 2020 – Pentecost Sunday Click here for the readings (http://cms.usccb.org/bible/readings/053120-day.cfm) Corrie ten Boom, a Nazi concentration camp Christian survivor of the Holocaust once said, “If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God, you’ll be at rest”. Though her words was…
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Waiting for your RATION? Let the Spirit fill you up
We might be waiting for our food ration to arrive, but there is this vital gift that is waiting to be received by us. The gift of Easter, this gift of the Spirit that the Gospel tells us is abundantly gifted to us. God does not ration the gift of the Spirit. God gives the…
A DOSE OF GOD TODAY 