Tag: Sunday
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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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Look around and See how God surprises us
December 11, 2022 – Third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/121122.cfm) Recently, Bro. Karl Gaspar, CSsR, a confrere of mine was hospitalized for three weeks and was admitted in the Intensive Care Unit due to complications of his veins for his regular dialysis. When he got better and can finally…
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OUR FAITH IN THE MESSIAH
December 4, 2022 – Second Sunday of Advent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/120422.cfm) Have you ever encountered a leader who is filled with vanity and only thinks of himself or herself? A leader in a group or in an organization, or in a company or community or in a nation who has become pretentious…
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LONGING AND HOPING IN OUR EVERYDAY LIFE
November 27, 2022 – First Sunday of Advent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112722.cfm) Have you been so overwhelmed by your issues and enormous problems at the moment? Or by the tragedies and traumas in your life? Or are you simply so caught up with the demands of work, family life, studies and in reaching…
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Already yet Still
November 27, 2022 – First Sunday of Advent Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112722.cfm) A mother once knocks at his son’s door and have this following this exchange of words. Mother: “Son, wake up.” But the son said: “Mom, I don’t want to get up.” Mom continued: “Son, Get up now. You have to go…
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A King at our side
November 20, 2022 – Solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112022.cfm) What is your image of a king? How does he look like? What does he do? With so much influence from the cartoons, anime and movies that I watched since I was young, I would…
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Our Witnessing of HIM
November 20, 2022 – Solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112022.cfm) Usually during Eucharist, after the homily, we stand up and renew our faith by saying the words: “I believe in God, the Father Almighty..” These words are the very foundation of our Christian faith and…
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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…
A DOSE OF GOD TODAY 