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The Kingdom of God is Like Yeast
Our Lord Jesus Christ teaches us today in the gospel of the mass important and interesting imageries for us to understand a little more about His Kingdom. He…
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Jesus Chooses His Instruments
Our Lord chooses his apostles among His big pool of disciples. The list is mentioned in the gospel today. We celebrate the feast of two of them, namely, St…
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Go; Your Faith has Saved You
We meet Bartimaeus in the gospel today. He was a blind beggar in Jericho, and he caught wind of Jesus passing by. He shouted to get His attention. When he…
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Leave the Fig Tree One More Year
Jesus opens to us this ocean of God's mercy in the gospel today. What He wants from us is to acknowledge our sins and repent from them. He forgives. He is even…
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Some Practical Advice
Jesus today offers us some practical examples to illustrate His teachings. He uses everyday examples to elucidate what He is trying to teach. Let us listen to…
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Spread the Fire, Spread the Love
Today, the Lord tells us how much He would like a certain fire to be spread around the world. We may wonder what that fire was all about and about what it had…
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Will you be Prepared to Meet the Son of Man when He Comes?
The gospel today pounds again on the same message as in yesterday's gospel, namely, the idea of being ready. Today, it is that of being prepared for the one…
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Be Ready!
Today, Our Lord Jesus Christ tells us to be ready all the time. That is because the devil is always on the prowl to get victims. He wants us to commit sin…
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Fool! Tonight You Will be Called to My Presence
Our Lord will call us this way when we are excessively concerned for material things and owning so much. He tells us the story in the gospel today about the…
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Have You Tried Being Ransom for the Others?
That is what Jesus did when He became flesh and assumed our human nature. He was as human as we are, except having any sins. He became man so He could be…
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Loyalty to Christ
Our Lord is plain in the gospel today. He commits Himself to declare Himself for those who declare themselves for Christ in this life. Wow! What a great and…
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Peace Be With You
Today is the feast of St. Luke, Evangelist. The Lord tells us in the gospel about His sending of the 72 disciples ahead of Him to evangelize the people they…
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Why do we shut down the Prophets?
Jesus calls out the people who murdered the prophets sent by God. These instruments of God only transmitted what God wanted to be told to His people. Many…
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You Overlook Justice and the Love of God
The Lord tell us in today's gospel His beef against the Pharisees and scribes or lawyers. They were meticulous about fulfilling the regulations they themselves…
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God Looks for the Conversion of the Heart
We read today in the gospel of the holy mass about Jesus calling out the Pharisees who were so concerned about His having not washed His Hands before dining…
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Do You Want to Be Truly Wise?
Wisdom is to be sought after more than anything else in this life, according to the first reading of the mass today. The gospel puts this principle into live…
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Happy the womb that Bore You and the Breasts you Sucked
This was the loud cry that rang out the day as Jesus was speaking to the crowd. Obviously, she was awed by the words of the Son of Mary. We learn at least a…
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Beware of Jealousy
The Lord today in the gospel shares with us His sad experience in some of the people. It must have been a frustrating one for Him. He just did a good deed…
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Ask, Ask, Ask, and You Shall Receive
Jesus reminds us in the gospel about a fundamental aspect of our prayer life. That is about petitions. We need to persevere and insist on what we petition for…
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How to Pray
The gospel today teaches us how Jesus taught His disciples to pray. We learn how to pray from Jesus Himself. The gospel states, “Once Jesus was in a certain…
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Martha Works, Mary Listens
Jesus frequently visited the home of Martha, Mary and Lazarus in Bethany. It is so nice to see Him living as a true human being. He sought their company, to…
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I am the Handmaid of the Lord
This is the basic and most important disposition of the human creature before his Creator. This was the disposition of Mary, who began to bear the Son of God…
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From the Beginning...
Jesus in the gospel today brings back the institution of marriage to the way it was when God created the universe in the beginning. Moses had permitted the…
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Rejoice that Your Names are Writtten in Heaven
The seventy-two disciples Jesus appointed came rejoicing to report about their day. Wow! They were jubilant! They were so elated that the devils were subject…
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If you Reject me, You Reject the One Who Sent Me
Jesus makes this plain to us. Yesterday, we commented in the homily about the Lord preparing His disciples to go ahead of Him to the towns He would visit. They…
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We are Ambassadors of Christ
St. Paul stated this title for today's homily. Jesus appoints 72 more disciples, and He assigned them to go ahead of Him to the towns He was going to pass…
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My Dear Guardian Angel
Our Lord teaches us about the existence of these angels, since today we celebrate the feast of the guardian angels. These splendid creatures are connected to…
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Discrimination by Creed
Jesus is rejected by a Samaritan town since He was set to proceed to Jerusalem. He suffered being discriminated against. His attitude to the Samaritan woman is…
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The Least Among You All is the Greatest
The disciples argue about who among them was the greatest. This almost sounds funny. Why do we argue about this matter? It must be that they wanted to position…
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Do Not Stop Him from Doing a Miracle in Jesus' Name
John the Apostle reported to Our Lord about someone casting out devils in the name of Jesus, although he was not one of their number. Our Lord corrected him…
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We Need this Self-Knowledge
Maturity in our faith requires from us a certain level of self-knowledge. That knowledge about our very core. We are sinners, and we have this basic tendency…
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You Are the Christ of God
We are presented today in the gospel, Jesus' question to His disciples about what people say about Him. Who was He according to them? Then, He turns the…
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Are you given in to rumors, gossips, idle talk of the people?
We hear about what happened to Herod and his people. With Jesus doing prodigious deeds like miracles and raising the dead, they had to find an explanation for…
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Lamp-stands and Receiving More
The Lord speaks to us in the Gospel today when he mentions us to be a light. Light is an image God uses to refer to Jesus, the Messiah. However, Jesus wants…
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Who is the Greatest in the Kingdom of God?
Jesus replies in the gospel today that the greatest is the child. This is not just any child. But he is the child who is innocent, humble, simple, open to…
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Who Needs a Doctor?
It is the sick who need the doctor. Jesus says this at the end of the gospel of the mass today to celebrate the feast of the evangelist and apostle, namely…
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Women priests?
The Gospel today tells us about the women who accompanied Jesus and His band of apostles to provide their own resources and help for their undertaking. This…
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Her Many Sins Have Been Forgiven For She Has Shown Great Love
The Devil may use our perception of our sinfulness or our many sins to discourage us. The Gospel today describes what we need to do in such situations. This…
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They Just Wouldn't Dance
We find Our Lord Jesus expressing His frustration. He expressed it by describing what He thought of the people of His generation, although what He describes is…
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The Widow was so Happy to see Her Son Alive again!
Today, we read in the gospel of the mass about a widow who has the huge problem of finding out how she would support herself, now that her husband had died and…
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Give the Word, and My Servant Will be Healed
Today, we read in the Gospel of the Mass of the encounter of Jesus with the centurion. A centurion was an officer in the Roman Army in charge of a hundred men…
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Jesus is Destined to Suffer
We are unable to celebrate liturgically the memorial of the Sorrowful Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the foot of the Cross. However, the gospel of the…
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Be Comfortable with What is Uncomfortable
Today is the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. We remember the value of the Cross of Jesus. God was not constrained to save us by dying on the Cross…
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Blind Leads the Blind!
Jesus talks about the problem with the blind leading the blind. Both will simply fall into the pit. We remember that we are all on a trip to Heaven. Thus, we…
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Be Merciful as Your Father in Heaven is Merciful
Today, Jesus encourages us to learn to face the music. If we do something deserving a penalty, then we need to expect that penalty to come upon us. Some escape…
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We are Actually very Lucky
Our world is fallen. We are all fallen. We have in our souls the aspiration to infinity and perfection for eternity. However, this world cannot provide us with…
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Jesus chooses the Twelve Apostles
How He does it is the subject of this Gospel and homily. He prays the entire night before He chooses them. Then, we chooses not in the manner we choose people…
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Is the Sabbath for Doing Good or For Doing Evil
The crux of today's Gospel centers on the tension between the Jews and the Lord in the synagogue. Such tension was all about what was licit on a Sabbath, the…
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Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Today, we celebrate her birthday. We celebrate her Immaculate Conception on December 8. So, counting forward nine months, we get to September 8. Liturgically…
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Who is Your Lord on the Sabbath?
Jesus, Our Lord, clarifies His teaching about the observance of the Sabbath duties. The Pharisees and scribes argue about the absolute necessity to observe…
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When to Fast
This was a question very much in the Jewish mind. It is clear that fasting was required. But regarding the extent and intensity of fasting, this would depend…
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The Hound of Heaven
This is the eternal invitation of God to all of us in our lives. Parallel to the Gospel narration about the miraculous catch of fish and the subsequent call of…
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Jesus Does not Permit the Devils to Speak About Who He is
Today's Gospel brings us various points for consideration. First, He cures Simon Peter's mother-in-law. For our lesson, that woman immediately got up from bed…
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Have you Come to Destroy Us?
The Lord addresses today a prevalent concern we all suffer from in this fallen world of ours. That is about a tinge of doubt lurking in our consciences about…
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Sacred Scriptures are Being Fulfilled This Day
We need to get this straight. Our Lord Jesus Christ became man to lead us to Heaven. His very life is our model to reach there. Hence, the scriptures that talk…
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Human Traditions Trump God's Commandments?
Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ clarifies with the Pharisees and Scribes about what truly defiles a man. Defilement is sourced from outside man, and that is the…
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Your Talents Should Bear Fruit
Today, we read the second of three stories in Chapter 25 of St. Matthew's Gospel. It is usually referred to as the Parable of the talents. By the way, the term…
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St. John the Baptist loses His Head
Today, we celebrate the martyrdom of the Precursor of Jesus Christ, St. John the Baptist. How he was beheaded is fairly well-known. It can be traced back to…
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You Are the Sons of those who Murdered the Prophets
Jesus continues to read the riot act for the scribes and pharisees. Basically, he called them hypocrites. This is like what we saw in the Gospel yesterday. He…
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Clean first the Inside of the Cup and Then the Outside too
Jesus continues to point out to the scholars of the scriptures what they were doing wrong. The scribes and pharisees were so particular of the external…