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Making Friends With The Lord Jesus
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Making Friends With The Lord JesusThe Wise and Foolish Virgins
Anyone of us could be classified either as wise or foolish. The foolish virgins did not bring more oil in case they would have to wait longer for the tardy…
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We need to well the teachings of Our Lord Jesus Christ
The Lord warns us that we need to have some preparedness for when he comes the second time to our world. For that we need to examine ourselves to determine…
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Feast of St. Bartholomew, Apostle
We celebrate in the Church the feast of St. Bartholomew today, the 24th of August. The Lord tells us in the Gospel in the Holy Mass the story of the meeting of…
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Beware of hypocrisy
Jesus teaches that the Jews should continue listening to the Scribes and Pharisees but cautions them not to follow their example. They teach but they do not…
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Mary the Queen
Mary is our Queen! The Queen of Heaven and Earth! And she has an army. Let us be part of her army. The way to go is to always say yes to God. We can say…
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Those who will be saved are those who enter by the narrow door
Once again the Lord provides us another imagery for our consideration to teach us something important. This time he employs the narrow door or narrow gate. He…
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Why don't we practice what we preach?
Jesus criticizes the scribes and pharisees for being teachers who do not practice what they preach. At the bottom here is the influence and succumbing to pride…
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How are we fulfilling the greatest of the Commandments?
Our Lord Jesus Christ replies to the questioner that the greatest and first is that of loving God above all with our entire heart, soul and mind. The second is…
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Let us go to the Wedding Feast
Today we read another of Jesus' parables about the kingdom of Heaven. Our Lord compares it to a wedding feast of the Son. These symbolic realities refer to…
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Why be envious of the generosity of the Lord Jesus?
The Gospel today draws us to recall that parable about a landowner who hires workers to work in his vineyard. We are represented by these workers who are hired…
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The Difficulty of those who are Rich to make it to Heaven
Essential to our struggle to reach Heaven is detachment from creatures like material possessions. Our Lord is not against owning property. We need material…
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The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Heaven
Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Heaven. The Blessed Trinity wants to bring Mary body and soul to Heaven. It…
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Our Lord Jesus Christ came to Spread Fire through all the Earth
In following Christ we need to realize that He wants to have us spread what He came to tell us. It is not enough to be a follower of Christ, knowing him and…
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We need to be like children to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
People noticed that Jesus was passing by. There were children in the street. Their parents prodded them to go to greet the Master. The Apostles tried to stop…
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Marrying Someone after Divorcing One's Wife is Adultery
Our Lord cannot be more clear in this teaching. In today's Gospel from Matthew 19 Jesus declares that what God has united no man can break. He was referring to…
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Need to learn to ask Our Lord questions about what we do
We have the Gospel of today's mass telling us about Peter's question about how many times he would need to forgive those who offend him. Jesus says that he…
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Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?
The greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven is a child, Our Lord teaches. Heaven belongs to such as these. Death or the prospect of dying can help us see ourselves…
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We need to be like little children
Today the 9th of August we celebrate in the Catholic Church the memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Her original name is perhaps more well known…
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Acts of Faith and Trying not to offend Others
In the present podcast I try to convince you to make acts of faith in God and his providence, that no matter what happens and especially when things look bad…
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What is your treasure?
The Gospel of the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time brings us to listen to Jesus' words about our treasure. He asks us to have our treasure in Heaven because…
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Listen to Him!
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. We read in the Gospel of the Holy Mass today the narration of St. Luke about this…
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If the Basilica of St. Mary Major was made to celebrate Mary's divine maternity what do you do to honor her?
Today we celebrate the memorial of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. It is the oldest church dedicated to her. It contains many…
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The need to go deeper into reality
St. Peter is asked by Our dear Lord about what he thought about the Lord. He declared the divinity of Christ. He is the Christ, the son of God. Jesus praised…
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Imitate this woman in praying insistently for her daughter's cure
We have the case of this Canaanite woman in asking for her daughter's cure as an example for us in being patient in asking Our Lord for favors. We should only…
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We need to remind ourselves of God's Presence
We read from the Gospel according to St. Matthew Chapter 14 about Our Lord walking on the sea after he prayed for the evening after multiplying the five loaves…
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Our smallness in the hands of God becomes great
Today we read about Our dear Lord multiplying the bread and fish, only five of the former and two of the latter, to feed at least five thousand men. Our Lord…
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Why do we fight over material possessions?
Our Holy Mother the Church provides for our lesson today, the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time 31 August 2022, the text of St. Luke's Gospel Chapter 12, verses…
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Do something about we realize in prayer with Jesus
We are given for our consideration Matthew 14: 1-12 about Herod murdering St. John the Baptist. He knew of this prophet's teachings and correction about his…
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Act on what we learn from Jesus' words
The Gospel of today's mass, Saturday of the 17th week in ordinary time 30 July 2022, brings us to the context of Herod the tetrarch capturing and jailing John…
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The Faith in the Resurrection of the Dead
Today, I speak about the resurrection of the dead in relation to the obligatory memorial celebrating Sts. Martha, Mary and Lazarus. One of the Gospel options…
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The Reality of Hell
Building up on the Gospel of the day, Thursday of the 17th week in Ordinary Time July 28, 2022, from Matthew 13:47-53 where we find the familiar parable of the…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusBasic prayer we all need to know and use
Two persons were compared by Our dear Lord Jesus Christ in today's Gospel. Jesus declared the second one to be pleasing to God. And that is the prayer of the…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusWho is Jesus to you?
Jesus asked this of his disciples one day. He addresses each one of us about this all important matter. If Jesus was just any Tom, Dick or Harry to you, then…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusGod deals with us one baby step at a time
Today we are presented by our Mother the Church the following scene in the Gospel. He is brought a blind man they beg him to cure. He removes him from the…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusAre you still without perception?
Jesus asks this question of his disciples who were worrying themselves about forgetting to bring bread with them on their trip by boat. The Gospel tells us…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusHow is our heart?
Today we greet each other Happy Valentine's Day. Flowers and roses are sent to our beloved women in our lives. Today we also celebrate important historical…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusLet us be happy, blessed and lucky!
Today we read about the version of St. Luke of the Beatitudes. We are more familiar perhaps with the version of St. Matthew. Anyhow, we read about them in…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusWhat do we do when we meet a challenge?
Today Our Lord and his disciples met the challenge of feeding about four thousand people who had gone with him for three days. He was concerned that if he…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusFor us to speak and hear we need contact with our Lord Jesus Christ in Prayer
Today we are presented by the Gospel in mass a scene of Jesus on his way to the Decapolis. He is presented a deaf mute. They ask him to cure him. He draws him…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusWe can win over Our Lord by trusting him with our conversation
This time we find Jesus in a repartee with a Syrophoenician woman who was begging him to cure her daughter of an unclean spirit. Although Jesus begins…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusWhat truly makes us unclean
Man realizes he is not a god. He is a creature beset by limitations and weaknesses. Therefore, he has this concern about what happens to him when he passes…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusAre our customs, traditions and routines above God's Will or not?
The Lord today in the Gospel of the mass today makes us think about this matter. He called the attention of the scribes and Pharisees because they expertly…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusWe can establish contact with Our Lord by touch
Oh how the crowds followed Our dear Lord Jesus as he went from one place to another! They all wanted to touch him or at least the fringe of his cloak. Our Lord…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusOur sins and sinfulness should not dissuade us from looking for and finding our Lord Jesus Christ
The Gospel today narrates for us the miraculous catch of fish where we find Jesus boarding the boat of Simon. We should read that as an image of Our Lord…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusWe are all shepherds of the others especially parents to their children
Our Lord today in the Gospel spends bonding time with his apostles. They have been working hard, so hard that they did not even have the time to eat. In any…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusLet us be able to think properly to be able to act properly
King Herod shows us the dangerous situation we put ourselves in when we think and act in an intoxicated way. During his birthday he and his guests were pleased…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusLet us exercise everyday our Trust in God
Wordliness teaches us to trust in the world. Trust in God is moved to the margins. Hence, our blessed Lord forbids his apostles from bringing certain…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusOffer to God our best
Today we celebrate the feast of the Presentation of the Child Jesus in the Temple. Mary and Joseph were very law abiding Jews and they fulfilled the obligation…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusFaith
We are sent by the Church to this Gospel scene with Jesus who meets Jairus begging him to come to visit his daughter who was dying and in the trip over there…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusWhere is your faith?
Our Lord shows his command over the wind and the sea in this episode of the Gospel. He had been sleeping at the stern of the boat when a sudden gale tossed…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusWhat is the Kingdom of God like?
As usual Our dear Lord uses parables to explain the deepest mysteries. One of these primary mysteries is that about the Kingdom of God that he has been…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusJesus Christ is Light
Today's Gospel enlightens us regarding the nature of Christ. He is light for us. Since he is the Truth he sheds light on our knowing faculties so we may see…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusHow has the seed of God's Word produced fruit in us?
Today the Lord tells us a parable, that of the sower and the seed. He points out the importance of checking what kind of place these seeds fall onto. Depending…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusWe are all mandated by Jesus Christ to go out to the entire world
The Gospel today reminds us of the instructions of our Lord Jesus Christ just prior to his ascending to Heaven to sit at the right hand of his Father from…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusLet us never reject the very source of our salvation
Today's Gospel introduces us into another show of envy by Our Lord's enemies. This time they claim that Jesus casts out devils in the name of the devil…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusJesus, the Church and the Sacred Scriptures
The Scriptures are what constitutes the written Word of God. This is what St. Luke started out to do culling content from their experiences with Jesus. He…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusWhat are you crazy about?
The Gospel today presents the relatives of our dear Lord to be very concerned with him because he did not have any time to eat anymore because of the work he…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusVanity
Today we see our dear Lord thronged by so many people. They recognized him as someone very special since he cured so many. But at the end of the Gospel he…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusThe Sabbath and Envy
In the Gospel today we see a confrontation again between Jesus and the Pharisees who were on the lookout for Jesus first mistake, error or failure so that they…
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Fasting makes feasting better
Jesus teaches us today that fasting needs to be done. He points out that there is no need of fasting when the bridegroom is around, i.e., Himself. But there…