Tag: Season of Lent
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God is a Loving Parent
March 22, 2023 – Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032223.cfm) Each of us has a father. Biologically, we need a father and a mother for a child is only born out of a male and female. As we grow up, we have different experiences with our parents and…
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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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A Change of Heart
March 1, 2023 – Wednesday of the First Week of Lent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030123.cfm) There are three areas in today’s readings where a change of heart happened. First, the change of heart of the people of Nineveh. At the preaching of Jonah, the king and the whole kingdom realized their sinfulness, repented…
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Overcoming Temptations
February 26, 2023 – First Sunday of Lent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022623.cfm) “What would you do if your boss offers you big amount of money and promises you a high-paying and much better job position, if you only betray your innocent supervisor and bear false witness against him in court for money-laundering?”, a…
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L-I-S-T-E-N
February 28, 2021 – Second Sunday of Lent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022821.cfm) Once a man approached a priest and asked, “Father, how come God seems so absent and silent? Why we don’t feel and hear him listening to us anymore as He used to be? Why does God no longer speak to us…
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TOWARDS A MATURE RELATIONSHIP
FEBRUARY 28, 2021 – Second Sunday in Ordinary Time by Fr. Manoling Thomas, CSsR Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022821.cfm) As we mature and develop as persons, our relationship with others should also undergo change! An example is the way we relate now with our own parents. Surely our way of relating with them now,…
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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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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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A Genuine Fasting in this Season of Lent
February 19, 2021 – Friday after Ash Wednesday Fr. Gibo Dandoy, CSsR Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021921.cfm) Today’s readings highlight one of the main components of the season, which is Fasting. In our Catholic Tradition, we are taught that fasting is a spiritual exercise cum discipline as our way of repentance and penance for…
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THE 40-DAY JOURNEY
February 17, 2021 – Ash Wednesday Fr. Manoling Thomas, CSsR Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021721.cfm) This day ushers in, the beginning of the Season of Lent in our Catholic Liturgical Calendar. “Lent” comes from an old English word for “spring” one of the four seasons in colder countries. For those of us living in…
A DOSE OF GOD TODAY 