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- Making Friends With The Lord Jesus
St. Catherine of Siena
We celebrate today a great saint in the Church. In fact, we recall St. Catherine of Siena who was declared by St. Pope Paul VI in 1970 a Doctor of the Church…
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Jesus is the Vine, While His Father is the Vinedresser and We are the Branches
The Gospel of the Fifth Sunday of Easter presents us with the teaching of Jesus regarding Him as the Vine while we are the branches. We are connected to the…
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If you have seen the Son, you have seen the Father Also
To go to Heaven, it is not enough to simply do good. We also need to follow what He taught us. All of what He taught us. Just believing a part only, only shows…
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Trust in the God's arrangements for Us
Jesus asks His apostles not to be troubled. This is the trouble that brings us away from God. Jesus was troubled, especially in the Garden of Gethsemane during…
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St. Mark, the Evangelist and some Principles of Scriptural Interpretation
With St. Mark's feast day today, we may learn about interpreting the holy scriptures. First off, we need to understand the place of scriptures have in our…
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Hearing Jesus is hearing Him Who Sent Him
The Gospel today tells us Jesus explaining that all who listen to Him is actually listening to the One Who sent Him. Jesus is God in the Flesh. He explained to…
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Jesus and the Father are One
Jesus had established His being the Good Shepherd because He laid down His life for His sheep. Added to that is that He is one with the Father. That means that…
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The Good Shepherd leads His Sheep by going ahead of Them
The Gospel today provides us with more characteristics of the Good Shepherd. He enters the sheepfold through the gate and gatekeeper. Others who enter through…
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We need the Good Shepherd
Our Lord Jesus Christ tells us today in the Gospel of the fourth Sunday of Easter that He is the Good Shepherd. He immediately defines what the Good Shepherd…
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Should our difficulties in Following God's Teachings make us Leave Him?
Today, the issue of Jesus giving His Flesh as Food to eat and His Blood to be taken as a drink comes to a head. Jesus does not adjust or modify His daring…
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Live with Faith
The Gospel today continues with Our Lord Jesus Christ revealing more about His earth-shaking teaching about His Flesh and Blood being eaten and drunk…
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God moves us internally so we can believe in Him
Today, we read in the Gospel the role of God in the act of faith. These past days we saw the importance of external signs as motives of credibility, like the…
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More on Bread as Food
Our Lord continues today in the Gospel of the Mass to elucidate on the bread of life that will satisfy us. There will be no more need to eat more. But to eat…
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God Goes Slowly in Teaching us about the Bread from Heaven
We read today about the way God teaches us about this sacrament. He is patient and slow. He goes step by step, being reasonable with us. Asked what work they…
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You must Believe in the One God Sent
Last week, we read about the first part of the Gospel according to St. John, Chapter 6. This is the famous chapter that reveals the intention of Jesus to…
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Make Many Acts of Contrition is One of the Best Devotions
Today, Third Sunday of Easter, we have three readings in the mass for the day. They all encourage us to repent and turn to the Lord. This message is directed…
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The Resurrection of Jesus reinforces our Faith in His Divinity
I remember listening briefly to a preacher of one of the denominations of religion who declared that Jesus is not God because He died. I could not believe my…
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An Instrument in God's Hands can do Great Wonders
Any instrument compared with the results accomplished by the author or main actor is always disproportionally small. A pen is nothing and can do nothing unless…
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God is Truth
The Gospel today tells us about the value of truth. It is by itself and it stands by itself. There are movements from some quarters of the world that want to…
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What Jesus do you believe in?
Today, we read the continuation of the meeting between Jesus and Nicodemus. Our Lord speaks about being born again via Baptism by water and the Spirit. But our…
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Have you been reborn in Christ?
I have many times heard of having to be reborn to be saved. My protestant friends from university brought this up many times. That happens in a way that…
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Many great things depends on our saying FIAT to the Lord's Plans
Today, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord. This was the first open date where this feast could be moved. This solemnity is usually…
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Divine Mercy Sunday
Our Lord appears again to His apostles. Now, St. Thomas, also known as the Doubting Thomas, was with them. They had shared with him that the risen Lord had…
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Easter Saturday
Our Lord met with His disciples. He reproached them for not believing the ones who had seen Him risen. This is a crucial stage in the transmission of the…
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Easter Friday
Today, we read about the second miraculous catch of fish. This instance had different circumstances from the previous miraculous catch of fish. There are fewer…
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Easter Thursday 4apr24
When one claims that to go to Heaven it would be enough to be good, he would need to be a bit skeptical about it. The reason is that the good is not easily…
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Easter Wednesday
Today, we read about the meeting of two disciples on their way to Emmaus with the risen Jesus. He also appeared to be traveling in the same direction as them…
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What are we after? Why are we like this?
Mary of Magdala was weeping inconsolably. An angel asked her for the reason. Jesus asked her too, without her knowing it was Jesus asking. Why are you weeping?…
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The Church Spreads the Good News
With the resurrection of Jesus, the Apostles preached this awesome truth far and wide. With this great miracle of resurrecting, the Church proceeded to sail…
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The Lord Risen! Alleluia, Alleluia!
Life has conquered death! Jesus resurrects, as He had prophesied. This last miracle proves to be the greatest of them all. He dies and He rises from the dead…
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The Church is Silent Today
The Church is very silent today because its Founder has died. Today is a great day to let our contemplative gaze at the Lord's last hours of life on earth. He…
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What have we done to Our Lord Jesus Christ?
The Church today contemplates the dead body of Jesus on the Cross. There is silence among us. We almost cannot believe man has done this to Him, who was so…
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We need to be smeared by Blood to secure our Eternal Lives
The first reading tells us the background of today's feast among the Jews. They celebrated the holy Passover. God had instructed the Israelites to slaughter a…
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The Tongue of the Disciple of Our Lord Jesus Christ
We read in the first reading of the mass of Holy Wednesday liturgy another text about the Suffering Servant from one of the four songs about his Servant. Only…
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All of us are Called to Die to Ourselves with Jesus Christ in Order to Resurrect with Him
We read for the first reading of the Good Friday service about our calling on earth. Each of us is called to imitate Christ--hence, we are called…
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If one sins, then he needs to pay for it
This law of the universe is universal. We find it in the plots of all our movies stories, or plays. There is a status quo of order and then the plot thickens…
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We Commence with Holy Week
The Church introduces us to the Week of the Lord's Passion by celebrating Palm Sunday. It is called this way because of the palms and branches people waved to…
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We will be counted among His People if we Follow His Will
The reading of today's mass, Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent, tells us of God laying claim of His people in Israel. This membership used to be by blood and…
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Complaining and Trusting God
The first reading of the mass today, Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent, reminds us of the example of Jeremiah. This Old Testament prophet of God complained to…
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Abraham is our Father
Jesus is the Messiah promised of old. God had promised Abraham to make his descendants as numerous as stars in the night sky or the grains of sand in the…
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God wants to Need Us for His Plans
Yesterday, we celebrated the feast of St. Joseph. He is a model for us Christians, especially his example regarding how he let God use him to accomplish His…
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Solemnity of St. Joseph
We take a break today from Lenten penitence and focus on the excellent creature in St. Joseph, the Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary. We will recite or sing…
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Evil and God's Providence
We read about the experience of Susanna in the first reading of today's mass on Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent. She was unjustly accused of the grave sin of…
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It is by Obedience that We Will be Saved
The second reading comes from the Letter to the Hebrews. It contains a description of Jesus having a hard time during the Agony in the Garden. He agonized…
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The Seed needs to die so We Could have a Rich Harvest
Farmers are familiar with this frequent occurrence. Seeds stop being seeds when they change into seedlings. The sown seed turns into a new plant. Death leads…
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Let us be Meek like a Lamb led to the Slaughter
We need to practice meekness because Jesus Christ lived meekly. He invited His listeners to learn from Him who was meek and humble of heart. He lived meekness…
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This is How the godless Think
The first reading brings us a text from the Old Testament book of Wisdom. It is difficult to read because these lines are a prophecy of what the scheming Jews…
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Our Tendency to Divinize a Creature
Due to original sin, man has the sad tendency of treating a creature as God or assigning to it a divine attribute or attributes. This is the malice of the sin…
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God Punishes Us to Teach Us Valuable Lessons
The Lord left Israel to be razed to the ground after the Israelites proved hard-headed in continuously defying God and His statutes. Although God sent His…
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Conversion and Its Fruits
It pays to aspire to be converted all the time. It is that goal you want to reach. It is the dream you want to achieve. And if you opt to be with Our Lord, or…
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Behold I make All Things New
God promises to create a new heaven and new earth in the first reading of today's mass. He recreates what He had created from the beginning. He suffered and…
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Infidelity to God and God's Justice and Mercy
We read in the lessons of the mass of today, the 4th Sunday of Lent or Laetare Sunday, about God's requirements of justice and His persevering mercy. The…
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We will Experience God's Wrath and Mercy Like Israel Did
Our lives as Christians is characterized by the experiences of Israel with respect to the Lord and His dealings with His People. Israel defied God and His…
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Faithful Love is What God wants from Us
God sends us difficulties to purify our hearts. This purification involves us striving more through those difficulties. Testing will clean our hearts. Our…
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Never give up on the Grace of God
We need to give God's grace a chance and be patient.
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Shall We Not Listen to the Lord?
The Israelites insisted in not trusting in God, in not listening to Him. Thus, they were defenseless. They relied on forming alliances with the surrounding…
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The Law shows God's Love for Us
When God tells us the instructions on how to use ourselves to live a life here on Earth, we need to listen. He is our manufacturer. Therefore, He should know…
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How much God loves to Forgive Us
The first reading speaks to us about how the hagiographer describes God as the Shepherd who takes care of us who are His flock. He as Shepherd brings us to…
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Out of Evil God can Get Good
The first reading teaches us the beginning of Joseph's story from the Old Testament, a type of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. The lesson is that from the…
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Put your absolute Trust in the Lord God
Contingency characterizes everything in the material universe. Hence, creatures here cannot be trusted in absolute terms. They are temporary. Wealth, security…