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- Making Friends With The Lord Jesus
The Saint of the Ordinary
Today, we celebrate the feast of St. Josemaria Escriva, Founder of Opus Dei. During his canonization mass, St. Pope John Paul II referred to him as the saint…
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Enter By The Narrow Door
Our Lord Jesus winds down His monumental Sermon on the Mount with shorter teachings, but no less important ones. First, He commands us not to be wasteful of…
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A Voice Crying Out in the Desert
We celebrate the Birth of St. John the Baptist today. His significance stems from his role in Salvation history. He was assigned to prepare for the arrival of…
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Even the Wind and the Sea Obey Him
Our Lord asked His Apostles why they were frightened when He was there with them, only sleeping at the stern of the boat they were on to transit to the other…
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Why Worry?
Worrying is part and parcel of daily living. That stems from our certain attachments to certain creatures like comfort, wealth, making an impression in the…
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Where Is Your Treasure?
Jesus challenges us today in the Gospel regarding where we put our treasure. He points out the seriousness of the matter. One's life is lived according to the…
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Our Father in Heaven
Jesus addresses today in the Gospel of the Mass the matter of how to pray. He criticized the multiplication of words in some prayers. He wants us to pray…
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Do You Want to be Noticed?
Today, Jesus elucidates on the intentions we may have in doing our good deeds. He reminds us that we should not want to simply attract men's notice. We need to…
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Love Your Enemies
Our Lord Jesus Christ teaches us we need to go beyond what was practiced before Him, namely, Love your neighbor and hate your enemies. The Divine Lord requires…
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Eye for an Eye and Tooth for a Tooth
Jesus points out today in the Gospel that this principal enunciated in the title was development of Jewish law or the Mosaic Law. However, Jesus perfects it by…
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The Kingdom of God
Jesus illustrates to us through parables what the Kingdom of God is like. He uses today the images of seeds, plants, sowing and harvesting. He underscores the…
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Say Yes If you Mean Yes, Say No If you Mean No
The Lord emphasizes simplicity in speech. We fall for egoism and primacy of selfishness when we lie and complicate our speech. Truthfulness is the best to…
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Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery
Today's Gospel sends to listen to Jesus Christ who on His own authority as Creator and, therefore, as Supreme Lawgiver, teaches that it is enough to look at a…
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How Should we Deal with our Anger
The good Lord explains to us today in the Gospel of the Mass that we need to address the waywardness of our passion called Anger. It should be the right kind…
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Relive the St. Barnabas, the Apostle's Live
The Church sets up the life of St. Barnabas for our contemplation today. We can learn from him a lot, especially how he disagreed with the Apostle of the…
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I have come to complete the Law
The sense Jesus gives us about the Law and the Prophets is that these latter were incomplete. Jesus came to complete them, i.e., to perfect them. Thus, He…
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Salt and Light
Today, we celebrate the feast of St. Barnabas, Apostle. Our dear Jesus expounds in the sermon on the mount after mentioning the Beatitudes that we are salt and…
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Learn to be Gentle
We read today the Beatitudes according to St. Matthew. They are the new commandments of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. We need to learn to live them by depending…
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Do you want to be related to Jesus?
We can be His mother, His brother, or His sister as long as we do His Will! It is as simple as that. The Jews were so full of themselves as members of the…
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Heart of Mary
After celebrating the Sacred Heart of Jesus yesterday, the Church praises God today for the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Her Heart is immaculate because it is…
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Heart of Jesus
God has a Heart! With Jesus Christ, we appreciate God's Heart that loves all of us. He proved the extent of His love when He died on the Cross. After the…
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Love God with All We Have
It is so moving to see a marathon runner never giving up in making it to the finish line. He gives this endeavor everything he has. This could be a fine image…
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Why don't we Take God at His Word?
Our tendency is to put obstacles to His Will, to our getting to know His Will and to us accomplishing His Will. The Gospel today gives us an idea how Jesus…
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Render to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's
Roman emperors were seen as divinities during the Roman times. They printed their faces on coins. So, in reply to whether he was for paying taxes to the Romans…
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The Practice of Examining our Conscience
The Lord used parables to preach and teach His listeners. He employed stories to help in understanding certain concepts and practice of virtues. The ones…
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Take and Eat
Our Lord Jesus Christ, on the night before He was to be crucified, instituted the Holy Eucharist. He commanded us to do this in memory of Him. This is how we…
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Let us be Sincere in our Thinking
The religious authorities in the Temple of Jerusalem confront Jesus and demand from Him the authorization He has for preaching and teaching the people. They…
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Mary Visits her Cousin Elizabeth
The Gospel narrates to us what happened when Mary visits her cousin Elizabeth. We are given words inspired by the Holy Spirit. First, we have the second part…
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Pray with Faith
The Gospel today tells us about Bartimaeus, the blind man, who shouted asking for God's mercy from Jesus who was passing by. He persisted in calling out His…
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Express your Faith by Counting on God's Grace to Fulfill His Will
We have in the Gospel today the reply James and John gave to Jesus when He asked them whether they will be able to drink the cup that He was to drink. They…
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What About Us? We have Left Everything and Followed You
St. Peter posed this question to Our dear Lord Jesus after He had expressed to them the great difficulty so-called rich people will have in entering Heaven. We…
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Sell all you Have and Come Follow Me
A rich man received this invitation from Jesus. But he turned it down. Apparently, he preferred his great wealth to the adventure God had in mind for him. This…
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One God in Three Divine Persons
We celebrate today the highest mystery of our Catholic Faith, i.e., The Most Blessed Trinity. Our daily life as Catholics is dotted with different expressions…
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We need to become like little children to enter Heaven
We read today the revelation of two principles of Christianity, namely, the need to deal with all people observing their dignity as persons and as children of…
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What God has united, Man Must Not Divide
Jesus speaks about the indissolubility of marriage. Divorce and remarrying is adultery, even when there are good reasons for remarrying like one becoming young…
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We Need to Learn to Sacrifice Ourselves
Today, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the Eternal High Priest. He is the Priest because He sacrificed Himself in Calvary for…
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Anyone who is not against us is for Us!
Our Lord Jesus Christ replied this way in the title to the protest of John about wanting to stop someone who was casting out devils in Jesus' Name, but was not…
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We Need to become Little and Humble in God's Kingdom
The Gospel of today tells us several things. First, Jesus spent more time, effort, and resources in training those who would speak and preach in His Name. How…
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Mary, Mother of the Church
The Church that Jesus founded was born yesterday Pentecost Sunday. But the Church as the Bride of Christ was born when Jesus died on the cross. To make sure…
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Pentecost Sunday
Pentecost means 50. In other words, fifty days after the resurrection of Jesus, the Holy Spirit descended upon the group of His followers in a bigger room…
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Each one of us is Unique
Jesus is asked by Peter about what would happen to John, the youngest of the Apostles. Jesus had prophesied how Peter would die. Jesus tells Peter that he need…
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Loving Jesus and how to show It
Jesus asks St. Peter whether he loved Him more than the others did. He replies in the affirmative. Jesus repeats this questions two more times, saddening Peter…
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More on Unity
Jesus stresses the point of unity in His prayer to His Father. In fact, He assigns it so much importance that it signifies that the one possessing it is from…
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We need to be One like the Father and the Son are One
Today's Gospel tells us about Jesus' prayer to His Father that we all be one, as He and His Father are one. Unity is an essential attribute of God. There is…
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He Became an Apostle after the Lot fell on Him
Tossing lots was a Jewish custom. A fortuitous event was believed to show God's Will, as long as there was no manipulation by man. St. Matthias became an…
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Practice Hope
This valley of tears that we all need to traverse is part of God's plan. The discomforts here should help us aspire for the definitive life in Heaven, where…
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Our Lady of Fatima
Several things should come to mind when we recall her apparitions to three shepherd children. There is God. God is offended by man's sins. We need to do…
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Go Out to the Whole World and Preach the Good News
We cannot shirk from the responsibility of obeying the Lord's last words on earth prior to ascending to Heaven. Go out to the whole world. We find ourselves…
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When asking God for Something We need to name drop
The name we need to use to get what we ask for is the Name of Jesus Himself. But this name-dropping assumes we have a relationship with Him. Thus, we need to…
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Let us Continually Hope in God
Hope is the theological virtue we all absolutely need to get to Heaven. This world is only a leg of our trip. We have all these difficulties here, even with…
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Joy in the pilgimage of Life to Heaven
According to the Gospel today, Jesus forewarns His followers of His coming departure. He encourages them despite the loss because they would see each other…
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Love for the Truth
More on the Holy Spirit! He will move us to love the truth. He will spur us to be united with God. It is proper of love to be united to the beloved, while what…
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The Loss of Jesus will Bring us the Holy Spirit and His Action on Us
Losing things we value always gets us thinking about the situations. We will miss those important items, and we are moved to re-evaluate ourselves. Losing…
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Going against the Grain
This is how our lives as Christians is to be described. The Gospel today tells us so much about it. We need to be loyal, hardworking, honest, charitable to…
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Love one Another
The Gospel for the Sixth Sunday of Easter tells us about Jesus' invitation to remain in His Love by following His Commandments, just as He remains in His…
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We should long for Heaven
The Lord forewarns us of what we will face if we are truly followers of His. Persecutions! If we become worldly, then we would not expect these attacks on…
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Jesus as the Way, the Truth and the Life
Jesus taught more than in the manner of Moses. He taught with personal authority. He did not cite any other authority to back up his teachings and claims. The…
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God is Love!
Since He is Love, He cannot but love us. We do not need to do anything to deserve His love for us. He simply loves us. We are able to love the others when we…
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Without Him We can Do Nothing
The Church presents again for our reading and contemplation the allegory of the vine and the branches. We underscore the statement of Jesus that without Him or…
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Are you at peace?
Jesus tells His followers that He pray for peace for them. This is a peace that the world cannot give. The peace it offers is so shallow and temporary. God's…