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One can complain to God
Jeremiah shows us how to complain to the Lord. This prophet felt he was getting nowhere when he spoke for the Lord to the disobedient people of God. He…
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Avoid Evil by Learning to do Good
Sometimes, our resolutions to be good or better fall flat on the ground because we do not study and learn how to do good. Just like the trend of DIY, or Do It…
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We are Sinners
Being sinners is our condition in the universe of God. He is the Creator and He is Immaculately poor. Aside from Him, Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary…
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Give it up for the Lord
The readings in the mass on the second Sunday of Lent provide us with lessons regarding God's testing us and our need to learn to give up things so we can get…
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Give it up for the Lord
Mass readings today enable us to learn a couple of things. God tests us. He asks us to give up certain things. His tests do not aim at failing us. We may fail…
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We are a consecrated People of God
God's style has been to choose people who would enjoy his predilection. This turned out to be the Jewish people. From them would come forth the Messiah. The…
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The Wicked who Repent Deserve to be Saved
While the Just who sins deserve to be punished.
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Upon Peter I will build my Church
Jesus asks Peter what he thought Jesus was. He confessed the divinity of Christ and thus, He is the Messiah. In response, Jesus renames him from Simon to…
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Jonah is the sign Jesus mentions in response to the demand of the Jews for a sign
Our Lord gave them the sign of Jonah. No other sign was to be given to them.
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Solomon's Downfall
Punishment follows one who sins. Solomon marries foreign wives steeped in idolatry. Thus, Solomon receives those scary prophesies against Israel. This logical…
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How do we receive the Word of God?
Do we work on it when we receive the Word of God. It is a direction given to us regarding what to do or grasp in our minds. Does God's Word bear fruit in our…
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Use the Commandments to Examine Ourselves to Bring out our Offences Against the Lord
The formulation of some of God's commandments in the first reading of today's mass strikes us as clarification. There is more detail regarding how to live the…
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A Different Way of Teaching Morality
Holiness is all about following the commandments. These commandments could be elucidated in different ways. The first reading of the mass today provides…
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Radical change of Heart
The first reading tells us of God's requirement of radical change of heart as the basis and presupposition of the outward practices of piety and sacrifice.
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Let us Identify the spirit that leads us
The Gospel today tells about the Holy Spirit leading Jesus to the desert, where He fasted for forty days. We should ask ourselves what spirit leads us. The…
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God is Never Outdone in Generosity
Today we read the continuation of the reading we had yesterday. From the Book of Isaiah, we read about the consequences of having genuine fasting, which would…
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Lent presents to us a Choice we need to Make
Moses presents this challenge to the Israelites on their way to the Promised Land. There were those in the group who wanted to return to Egypt where, they like…
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We need Trials in Life
God sends us trials since he is a good Father. My dad gave me a plan of tests: in mathematics, in the discipline of following a certain protocol in our home…
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We need to pray to God with Faith
Praying doubting that God will give us what we ask for is a good indicator that we are not praying properly. We need to pray trusting in God 1000%. How will…
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Leprosy and Sin
The Lord makes use of the disease leprosy that affects the body to give us an idea of what sin is like concerning the soul.
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The Importance of Unity
Unity is an attribute of God and each of His creatures. Unity is a sign of perfection. Unity is to be strived for in all groups and organizations. Disunity is…
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Solomon loses the favor of God
The story of the downfall of Solomon is illustrative. He fell out of his relationship with God. The problem began with his foreign wives who worshiped other…
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The Devotion of the The Seven Sundays of St. Joseph
We should honor this simple worker very much since he fulfilled a most important role in the plan of salvation. He was so generous to accede to God's plans for…
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Solomon and the Favor of the Lord
Solomon pleased God with what he asked God for. He sought for wisdom and God praised him and awarded him with much bounty. The Queen of Sheba describes in the…
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Prayer is the oxygen of our Souls
Solomon prayed and we need to pray recognizing the majesty of God. This is the prayer of praise and adoration.
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He is truly, really and substantially present there in the Blessed Sacrament
The Israelites revered so much their Temple in Jerusalem because it contained the Ark of the Covenant. That ark supposedly contained the tablets of the…
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Temporality vs Eternity
We need to realize the shortness of life on earth. We cannot put all our bets in this life. It would be unwise if we only thought of establishing our…
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When Relationships Sour...
It is sad to witness the souring of relationships. David and his son Absalom were at loggerheads with each other. Absalom usurped the throne. He went after the…
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We are Nothing
We read about David fleeing from his son Absalom who proclaimed himself king of Israel. He wanted to do away with his father since he was the sitting king…
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The New Sabbath
The New Sabbath is Sunday, the first day of the week. Sunday marks the triumph of God in recreating the universe. The universe succumbed to the wiles of the…
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Indignation of David was a sign of his Guilt
Nathan the prophet was sent by God to confront David regarding his adultery and murder of Uriah the Hittite. He narrated a story in which a blatant injustice…
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We need to develop our talents
St. Paul addresses his spiritual son Timothy in the first reading of the mass today. He reminds him of the gift he received by the laying of the hands of Paul…
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We need to have a conversion like St. Paul's
Today, we celebrate the feast commemorating the Conversion of St. Paul. His importance cannot be overemphasized. He has 14 letters in the New Testament. He…
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It is the Descendant of David Who Will Build Him a House
We hear this prophecy mentioned in the first reading of the mass today. In the process, God shows forth His loyalty to the people He had chosen to be His own…
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We leap with Joy to be in God's Presence
David shows us his behavior at the presence of God symbolized by the ark of the covenant. Lots of sacrifices are offered to God while they move the ark of the…
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Power means Willingness to be of Service to the Others
Our Lord Jesus Christ inverted the existing conventions regarding power. People more easily grasp that to have power means the ability to bully others, to get…
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We Need to become Little Like Children
Mark 10:13-16 It is to such as these little children that the kingdom of God belongs. People were bringing little children to Jesus, for him to touch them. The…
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David shows us His Heart as He mourns the loss of King Saul and Jonathan
As we appreciate the stirrings and activity of David's mourning the death of his friends, we learn of the affective power we have in our hearts. We need to use…
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Answer Evil with Good
David has the chance to kill King Saul as he rests in the same cave he is in. The king was having a respite from the search for the criminal, who in this case…
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Envy, Jealousy and Unity
Envy, jealousy and unity are some of the virtues and qualities exhibited in the narration of the first reading of today's mass. King Saul became envious of…
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David vs Goliath
We can apply today's story of David and Goliath to our own stories. We do feel in our struggles against evil and temptations that we are at a disadvantage. We…
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God chooses His Instruments by Creating Them
In the first reading of today's mass, we read about God's choice regarding who would succeed King Saul. David was his choice. Interestingly, Samuel visited…
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The Downfall of King Saul
We read in the first reading of the mass today about the fall from grace of King Saul. The cause was his disobedience to the command of God. He disguised his…
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It is Obedience that Saves Us
The first reading of the mass today tells us about the disappointment of Samuel with the failure of King Saul to obey God's commands to exterminate a group of…
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Our Bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit
St. Paul was looking for a way to encourage the Corinthian converts to avoid the sin of fornication. He employed the second reading of the mass today where he…
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How can we Hear the Lord's Call?
The first reading of the mass today tells us about the call of Saul to be the first king of Israel. Samuel anointed him king. But the thing is that for us to…
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God delegates the authority to forgive sins to Humans
The Gospel tells us of the Lord's episode with the show of faith of four men who brought a paralytic to the Lord to be cured. Jesus seeing their faith forgave…
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Is it God we seek or ourselves?
In their battles with their enemy the Philistines, the Israelites missed answering this most basic of questions regarding the conduct of our lives: is it God…
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The Effects of the Coming of the Messiah
The Christ arrived into the world that had been given up to the Enemy of God, namely the Devil. Adam and Eve went over to his side because they had distrusted…
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Birthday of St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer
Today, we celebrate his birthday anniversary. What better way to celebrate it than by thanking God for giving us this holy man as another model of holiness! In…
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The Baptism of the Lord Jesus Christ
We celebrate today the last feast day of the Christmas Season and with it, the season officially ends. Today we commemorate the Lord's Baptism. He identified…
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The Trinity on Earth leads us to the Trinity of Heaven
I beheld this reredos in the private oratory of the Prelate of Opus Dei, who at that time was Blessed Alvaro del Portillo. It was a magnificent painting of the…
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Let us look for the One We need to Love
The world will not be able to suffice to bring us real lasting happiness. Only God can! St. John in his First Letter tells us so much in the first reading of…
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Let us Live following the Life of Jesus Christ
This assumes that Jesus Christ is our model. He is our example because He is a perfect Man. His life therefore is normative. He need to imitate how he behaved…
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God only wants to Save Us from ourselves
Today, we recall the murder of children two years old and under, by the command of King Herod the Great. They are considered as martyrs since they gave up…
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St. John, Apostle and Evangelist
We celebrate today the feast of St. John, who was called the one Jesus loved. The point that our holy Mother the Church wants us to learn from him is…
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St. Stephen Followed the Footsteps of our Lord Jesus Christ
Today, we celebrate St. Stephen's Martyrdom and witness to the Lord Jesus Christ. Yesterday, we remembered His birth. Today, we recall His first servant to…
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A Son is born to us
Christmas is the birth of a Baby! He calls us to pay attention to Him. Our selfishness is burned in the process. Fall into the process of eliminating our bad…
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The Birth of the Man-God is about to Happen
The texts of the three lessons of today's mass cap our preparations for Christmas. David plans in the first reading to construct an appropriate dwelling of the…
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Humility, Humility, Humility
The text of the first reading of today's mass tells us again about the Precursor, St. John the Baptist. His example underscores the Church's insistence that we…