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- Making Friends With The Lord Jesus
God gave us everything
Joshua called for a meeting with the leaders of Israel. He began to enumerate to them what God had done for them from even before sending Abraham to begin a…
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The Importance of having a Leader
Joshua was appointed by God to take up the leadership of the Israelites after Moses passed away. God gave him the same capability as Moses who parted the Red…
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Doubt and Abandonment to God's Providence
The bottom line of our relationship with God is about how much we trust him. If we don't then we would be in doubt of his goodness. Moses doubted when he…
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The Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary
Today we celebrate a solemnity about the Blessed Virgin Mary being assumed into Heaven. Among other things, this goes to show how much dignity there is in a…
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God
We shouldn't just treat God as way of expression in whatever way we want. He is the God of gods and Lord of lords. He is transcendent and here with us at the…
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We need to experience God
The first reading of today's mass of the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time tells us of Elijah's change of heart regarding his mission. All he needed was an…
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Why not try to do a Shema several times a day?
The Jews had the practice of reciting the Shema three times a day. This was logical since we in our love for God although theoretically certain in practice we…
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Everything here on Earth should be rubbish compared to the relationship with Jesus Christ
Relative to having this relationship with Christ, that would have infinite value, everything else that may be valued here on earth would assume a lesser value…
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God loves a cheerful giver
God loves a cheerful giver, says St. Paul in his second letter to the Corinthians. This is a basic Christian principle. We cannot behave with God as like what…
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We need our shepherds in the Church
God's goodness is seen in His caring for us by appointing instruments to help us discern God's Will.
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Complaining
The First Reading of today's mass brings us to contemplate the complaining of the Israelites because of the difficulties of the journey to the Promised Land.
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St. John Mary Vianney and the Jubilee
St. John Mary Vianney was a man of great penance and sacrifice. He asked the Blessed Sacrament during a Benediction that he'd accept all the sacrifices that He…
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Obedience to God's Word
Moses built the Tent of the Covenant by following the instruction s of God to the letter. This is also how we need to approach the will of God. We need to…
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Imitate Christ and you become a Model for the Others to Imitate
St. Paul tells us in his first letter to the Corinthians that he encourages us to imitate him since he also imitates Christ. If he does not try to imitate Our…
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Ask God for the right thing
The three readings in the mass today show us this importance. Solomon asked for the ability to distinguish good and evil. In the second reading St. Paul tells…
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God helped us to know His Commandments
God did so to make it easier for us to know what we needed to do to do good and avoid evil. As the situation of man was debilitated because of original sin…
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God's Mercy is Available
It is such an important revelation about who God is when in the first reading of today's mass for the 16th Week in Ordinary Time tells us that God offers us…
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Moses and the Burning Bush
God does not forsake his chose people. He sends Moses as his instrument. As usual when God chooses someone, that someone brings up an objection. But God…
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God intervenes in history to get His Will done
The story of how Moses was born, the circumstances he was born in and how he survives as a baby and becoming the son of Pharaoh's daughter is illustrative of…
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Who dares defy God in what His Word wants to do?
God's omnipotence means that His Will is uncontested in the universe. No creature can resist His all powerful Will. However, His only weakness is a created…
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Humility, Humility, Humility
We need this virtue to counteract the root cause of our pride and disobedience to God's Will.
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The Lord depends on our free correspondence to His Action
The preparation we have been undertaking these days with the first readings of the masses include the understanding that although our Lord does not need any of…
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See problems around you?
This is staple in the Christian conscience. When a problem is observed or suffered by a Christian he or she strives to--at least in theory--to see what could…
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St. Stephen teaches us to listen first to the Holy Spirit before speaking
What we usually do is to listen to ourselves. Worse, we just say immediately what we think. This leads to many errors and mistakes especially against charity…
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Our Faith depends on the Trust we have on the Testimony of Witness of the Apostles
We depend on their witness of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The doubting Thomas was praised by Jesus because he saw Him and…
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Suffering has Meaning!
That is it! Suffering has meaning. We will see this in how the Apostles take their flogging and humiliation in front of the Sanhedrin for the miracle of curing…
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First Sunday of Lent 24feb23
We begin the season on Lent in the Catholic Church. We recall that the Church helps us to contemplate and incarnate the life of Jesus Christ. So she brings us…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusAsh Wednesday 2023
Ash Wednesday signals the beginning of the Lenten season in the Roman Catholic Church. Just like the pair of seasons of Advent--a preparation for the Birth of…
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We are to love God with everything we have
Our Lord Jesus Christ is tested by a reckless lawyer. He asks Our Lord what he needs to do to gain eternal life. This is a question we all need to ask, and…
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What Should I do to Gain Eternal Life?
Man asks this question all the time, even when he does not realize it. We do things here on earth always for a purpose, for an ultimate purpose. It may be God…
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Faith and Proving it
Today we read in the Gospel about faith that Our dear Lord describes as powerful to move objects like a tree to the sea. If our faith needs nourishment to be…
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Rejoice rather that your names are written in Heaven
This is the Lord's reminder to his seventy-two disciples when they returned to see him after a day's work. They were jubilant because the forces of evil were…
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How to express repentance
Our Lord in the Gospel today from St. Luke chapter 10 warns Bethsaida and Chorazin about their fate if they do not repent. Jesus compares how much He had…
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The Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael
Today the Church celebrates these three Archangels. Let us pray to them and entrust to them our concerns.
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The Martyrdom of St. Lorenzo Ruiz and Companions
The Gospel today tells us of what we need to do in order to follow Our Lord, even up to the point of martyrdom.
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We should not bid evil to those who are unkind to us
Today we read about Our Lord Jesus Christ on the way to Jerusalem but having to pass Samaria. There was this village that didn't want to accept Jesus since He…
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Distinguish the sinner from his sin
The sons of thunder, namely, John and James, asked our Lord whether they could send fire from Heaven to punish the village that refused to be hospitable to Our…
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Let us make the connection with the others
We read in the Gospel today about Dives and Lazarus, the Rich Man and Lazarus. Dives feasted magnificently everyday. He could not see the needs of the poor…
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The Calling of St. Matthew
Our Lord passed by the office of Levi, who would become St. Matthew later on. And He called him to follow Him. He got up immediately and followed the Lord…
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Do you want to be close to our Lord Jesus Christ?
The only way is what Jesus praises in the Gospel today. That is that we should listen to the word of God and practice it.
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How do you use light in a house?
Jesus Christ is the Light of our lives. With Him we can see better and penetrate more deeply and accurately into reality. This reality is what God provides us…
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The Followers of Christ need to be as astute as those concerned with being worldly
The Gospel of the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time makes us notice the contrast between those who follow Christ and those who are worldly. He encourages us to…
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God reaches out to us through Nature
God sows His seed, that is, His Word. He has foreseen the different types of recipients to His Word. And still He sows His Seed. He reaches out to us all the…
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Jesus wanted to have women involved in Evangelization
The Gospel today-Friday of the 24th week in Ordinary Time 16 September 2022- tells us of the women who accompanied the band of Jesus. Jesus treats women going…
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Our Lady at the Foot of the Cross
Today we celebrate Our Lady of Sorrows. She stood at the foot of the Cross suffering with her Son on the Cross. Who mother would not suffer with her children?…
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The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
We celebrate today the supernatural value of the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. The cross and attendant crucifixion was hated penalty in the ancient world…
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The Faith of the Centurion in Capernaum
This roman centurion exhibited a faith that amazed Jesus Himself. The soldier is remembered for his words in the words verbally said by everyone just before…
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Heaven rejoices with every return to Christ
With our mistakes, failures and sins we might get into a crisis of sorts especially because of our milieu. There is a lot of talk about having to succeed…
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Can the blind lead the blind?
If we permit the blind to lead us who are blind already, then we simply would be courting trouble.
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How is our prayer life?
It is characteristic of Our Lord that He prays a lot. He dedicates time to pray even the entire evening in preparation for big decisions like the one He made…
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The Lord identifies himself with those in need
Instead of paying attention to something to criticize they should have prayed for the man with the withered hand. God identifies himself with those in need and…
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The Need to Carry the Cross of Christ in order to Follow Him
Today the Holy Catholic Church makes us review Our Lord's teaching about following Him. He requires that we carry His Cross and follow Him. Otherwise we cannot…
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Let us practice some fasting
Our Lord is made aware by the Pharisees and Scribes of the difference between His disciples and the others. The former do not fast while the latter practice…
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The Miraculous Catch of Fish
When Our Lord enters our lives He does not need our permission. Likewise, we need to enter the lives of our friends, colleagues, officemates, etc in order to…
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When we receive a blessing from the Lord we should take that as a push for us to spread the Word of the Lord
Today Wednesday 31 August 2022 he hear that Jesus in the Gospel curing the mother-in-law of Simon. Interestingly after the sickness left her at the command of…
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Our bad dispositions color our way of looking at the world
Jesus tells us today Tuesday the 30th of August 2022 that there are devils. He handled the possession of a man by an unclean spirit. He exorcised the poor man…
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The Beheading of John the Baptist
Some people think that if they eliminate the person who corrects them from an error or malfeasance, they would be off the hook. They forget that it is not the…
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Pursue humility
The Lord exhorts us to humble ourselves instead of exalting ourselves in this life. His life and example is patent in this too. He who is divine did not…
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Take care of the little things
The parable of the talents is the subject of the Gospel for today. It is found in Chapter 25 of St. Matthew's Gospel. The same themes are set forth by the…