Tag: Life
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A Journey towards Transformation
March 5, 2023 – Second Sunday of Lent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030523.cfm) Life is a journey. It is never meant to be static. As simple as the flow of the traffic, it goes forward until one reaches the desired destination. When life becomes stagnant, this is where we also find life uninteresting, depressing…
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I am now establishing my covenant with you
February 16, 2023 – Thursday Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021623.cfm) The Book of Genesis in the story of Noah with God, we have heard how the Lord renewed the covenant with the whole human family. The Lord God still sees hope in us. And the wonder of this renewal…
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THE END OF TIME IS A JOYFUL ONE
November 13, 2022 – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111322.cfm) How would the end of time look like? What would happen to us and to the world? When the pandemic struck us in 2020, I have friends who really asked if that was the beginning of the end of time.…
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Of Life BEFORE Death
November 13, 2022 – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111322.cfm) Whenever death & disasters happen in our lives, we cannot help but raise the question about the end-time or the end of the world. Ever-present war, pandemic, famine, pestilence, super typhoons, tsunami, hunger, earthquakes, flooding, landslides, and countless death-crimes in…
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LIVING and DYING. LIFE and DEATH.
November 6, 2022 – 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/110622.cfm) Are you living to die? Or are you dying to live? Do we seek to give life? Or do we suck out life? We have just celebrated All Souls’ Day and remembered the lives of our departed loved ones. We…
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Seeking what matters most in our life
October 30, 2022 – 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/103022.cfm) What do I seek in life? Love and acceptance? Understanding and friendship? Comfort and contentment? Health and wealth? In seeking what matters most in our life, we could experience discouragement, rejection, failure, pain or even shame. We know that not…
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GOD’S BREATH WITHIN US
February 10, 2021 – Wednesday Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Scholastica Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021021.cfm) There are people who are fond of paying more attention to trivial things and minutest details. When artists show this to their work of art, the result would really be stunning. However, when a friend…
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BREATH GOD
February 9, 2021 – Tuesday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/020921.cfm) O, Kamusta na? Nakakahinga pa? Ginhawa pa? Still breathing? With a lot of things happening & going on, to say the least, life nowadays is and can be suffocating. We do find ourselves at times breathless &…
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When God is pushed away, God makes a way
February 1, 2021 – Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/020121.cfm) Today’s Gospel story presents us two kinds of response towards the presence of Jesus. The first was with the man who had an unclean spirit and second was with the people who approached Jesus after the healing…
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The Power and Authority to Enlighten and Free People
January 31, 2021 – Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Fr. Manoling Thomas, CSsR Click here for the readings (https://adoseofgodtoday.com/sunday-liturgy/) In the world of showbiz, some aspiring movie actors and actresses, just starting in their showbiz career, resort to time-tested gimmicks! Publicly, they give out controversial statements. Others are even more daring: by behaving or actually…
A DOSE OF GOD TODAY 