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Your Father who Sees in Secret What You Do will Reward You
Let us take care of our personal formation, where we strive to go for real work on acquiring virtues, rather than being satisfied with a mere image or…
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Seek No Revenge
We have heard the principle, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." Our Lord requires His followers not to seek revenge, but to be merciful. This is the…
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God has Revealed Himself to Us
Today we celebrate our faith's highest mystery. Let's learn how to live it in our lives.
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Yes Should Mean Yes and No Should Mean No
Honesty and simplicity may not be in vogue nowadays. What is in is complicatedness, wordiness, falsehood, misinformation, etc. Jesus reminds us in today's…
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Let Us Bring to our Prayer Whatever Happens to Us So that We can Discern God's Will
We read today's gospel about Jesus teaching about the requirements of His Law. He discusses the nature of sin originating in man's higher powers. Hence, any…
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What a Priest We Have
We celebrate today the best gift we have in Jesus Christ as the Priest. With His priesthood we have been saved. All His actions on earth were transformed by…
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Jesus Came to Fulfill the Law, and not to Abolish it
Our Lord Jesus Christ reveals in the gospel today His mind and intentions with regard to the Law that Was revealed before His coming. He had no intention of…
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You Were Not Made to Conform to the World But to Give Christian Flavor to It
What would you say of a lighted bulb not giving off light? Or a live charcoal not giving off heat? A Christian is supposed to change his environment and to…
Making Friends With The Lord JesusDo you Know You Have a Mother in Heaven?
Jesus gave us His Mother to be our Mother too! Mater Dei, Mater nostra! Children look like their parents. How do we try better to imitate her?
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The Holy Spirit Ignites the Nascent Church into Action
Today, the Church opens so officially with the coming of the Holy Spirit in the fullest sense, enough to send each of the weak and fearful apostles to…
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Testimony of St. John
We end the reading of the gospel written by St. John, the Apostle. This ending comes with two details. The first one is about the preoccupation of St. Peter…
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Follow Me!
St. John, the Evangelist's gospel ending is the focus of today's mass. He tells us two things. First, St. Peter, after having been told about how he would die…
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Do You Love Me?
Today's gospel reveals to us God's attitude and disposition with respect to any of us sinners. He only asks us one question. Our imagination and egoism worry…
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May We Foster Unity Among Ourselves as a Way of Dealing with the Holy Spirit
Let us each contribute our share to seek unity in the Church.
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May They Be One Just As We are One
The gospel today brings up the matter of Jesus' priestly prayer for unity. It is a divine attribute. Jesus prays that we be one with Him. Unity is a attribute…
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Take Courage, I have Conquered the World!
Take courage, I have conquered the world! We should listen to these words of Jesus all the time to remind ourselves that we belong to the Easter people and…
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He ascended into Heaven Where He Waits for Us
We celebrate today the Lord's departure for Heaven in His Ascension to Heaven to sit at the right hand of His Father, from there He shall come to judge the…
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Saturday My Soul Magnifies the Lord 6woe 31may25
Let us rush to do good, like Mary making haste to help her cousin.
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No One Will Take Your Joy Away from You
Today, the gospel continues to tell us about joy. That no one will remove our joy from us is what Jesus assures us. Very much part of our Christian vocation is…
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You Will Grieve, but Your Grief Will Become Joy!
Our dear Lord Jesus seems to like to play hide and seek. Life is full of this, just like He made Our Lady and St. Joseph look for Him for the 3-4 days He was…
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The Spirit of Truth Will Guide You
Jesus reminds us that the Holy Spirit will come. He will guide them to the Truth. Normally, we depend on our thinking power to navigate through our lives…
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For If I do Not Go, The Advocate Will Not Come to You
The Lord Jesus prepares His followers for His departure. He explains to them the reason He needed to leave them, even though this would bring them grief. He…
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The Spirit of Truth Will Testify to Me
The Church in today's liturgy of the word is more explicit in mentioning the Holy Spirit, Who will be sent from the Father. Jesus says that He is another…
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We Are Called to the Oneness of God and the Blessed Trinity
Today, the Church proceeds in Her plan to introduce to us the Third Person of The Blessed Trinity, namely, the Holy Spirit. For that, she continues to preach…
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You Do Not Belong to the World and I have chosen You out of the World
Thus, we have the explanation of many of our problems in this world. There is sin and its allies in the world, the flesh and the devil. Jesus speaks about this…
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This is My Commandment: Love One Another
We hear Jesus loud and clear. In another homily, Jesus spoke of this commandment also, but He referred to this commandment as the new commandment. That is…
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Remain in my Love that Your Joy might be Complete
Today, our Mother the Church feeds us with this episode of Our Lord's life where He connects love, with keeping His Commandments, and joy. He continues to…
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Whoever Remains in Me and I in him Will Bear Much Fruit
The Lord reveals to us a physical image about a supernatural reality. The allegory is the vine and its branches. He is the vine and we are the branches. It is…
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I will Follow You Wherever You Go
Jesus illustrates to us the meaning of the claim that we follow Him. Today, Jesus proposes certain comparisons and analogies about what it means to follow Him…
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The Advocate Whom the Father Will Send Will Teach You Everything
Today's gospel reveals to us Jesus' revelation of the Advocate, the Holy Spirit. It is God revealing Himself to us. He revealed He has a Logos of Himself, the…
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I give you a new Commandment: Love One Another
Jesus called this commandment a new commandment, namely, love one another. It is not new because it just came out from God instructing us on how to deal with…
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Whoever has seen Me has Seen the Father
Today's gospel is most interesting! It consists of Jesus' revelation of His relationship with His Father. Philip, one of His Apostles, asks Him about showing…
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I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life
Jesus speaks to us about our troubles in today's gospel. We all get troubled, one way or another. It is very proper of creatures because of our limitations…
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You are the Light of the World!
We are situated by today's gospel in the sermon on the mount of Jesus. After He taught the Beatitudes, one of the things He was saying referred to two images…
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The Lot Fell on Matthias
Today, we celebrate the feast of an Apostle. Matthias is his name. He was chosen to replace the slot of the twelve--clearly taken from the number of tribes of…
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I am the Gate for the Sheep
Today's gospel continues the Good Shepherd theme of yesterday's liturgy. Our dear Lord cautions us so we learn to discern good from bad, i.e., the good helps…
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Let us Listen to the Good Shepherd
Who is the Good Shepherd? This is the 4th Sunday of Easter theme. The shepherd leads his sheep to clean waters and healthy grass. He protects them from dangers…
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Nowhere else to Go because You have the Words of Eternal Life
The Lord's Eucharistic discourse winds up today in the gospel taken from St. John Chapter 6. It all comes to a head because Jesus proposes that we need to eat…
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My Flesh is Food and My Blood is Drink
Jesus now goes full mode in revealing His doctrine about His Body and Blood being real Food and Drink. We need this nourishment to enter eternal life. His…
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The Bread that I Shall Give is my Flesh for the Life of the World
We continue with John Chapter 6 today in the gospel. We have our dear Lord reveal to us for the first time that the bread of life He was offering to the Jews…
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The Will of God for Us
Today, Jesus reveals that Will of His Father and His role in getting that Will to be done. We pray quite often the Lord's Prayer, where we beseech our Heavenly…
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Work for the Food from Heaven
The gospel today prods us to want this food from Heaven. Jesus invites us to this. If we want to enjoy Heaven, we need this kind of food He is offering. Jesus…
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The Food that Brings us Places
We continue reading today about Jesus and His Eucharistic Discourse. He had performed the miracle of multiplying the bread and fish. Now, He changed the…
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Our Lord is Always There!
The Church presents to us the third appearance of the risen Lord to some of His disciples when they went fishing. He is only the fellow who happens to be…
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Go into the Whole World and Proclaim the Gospel to every Creature
When the Lord resurrected from the dead, He instructed His apostles to spread out and reach all places in the known world to preach the Good News. The Greek…
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They Had Breakfast with the Risen Lord!
What would you do if you're invited to have breakfast with the newly resurrected Jesus Christ, who was crucified and confirmed dead a couple of days before?…
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Thus It Was Written That The Christ would Suffer and Rise From the Dead on the Third Day 24apr25
We today about the recipe of our Lord for our lives. He lived this recipe first, since He is our Leader in Life. He went ahead of us to suffer, die and…
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Wedneday of Holy Week The Insincerity of Judas Iscariot 16apr25
We read again about Judas Iscariot. But this time from the gospel of St. Matthew Chapter 26. We find him approaching the chief priests of the Jews asking how…
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Tuesday of Holy Week Our Lord's Way of the Cross 15apr25
Our dear Lord's Way of the Cross is very like our own journey in this Life.
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Let Her Keep This for the Day of My Burial
We read in the gospel today about that Mary who "wasted" an expensive perfume used also for anointing corpses in Jewish culture, on the feet of Jesus. This…
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Palm Sunday
Today, we join the entire Church with Jesus Christ to begin Holy Week. Today is referred to at the day of the triumphal entry into the ancient city of…
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To Gather Together in Unity the Scattered Children of God
Our dear Lord is at the doorstep of Holy Week, i.e., the commencement of His Passion and death on the Cross. His sentiments and thoughts center on His mission…
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They Wanted to Arrest Jesus But He Eluded Them
We continue to follow Jesus in His growing tense confrontations with the Jews. They challenged His claims. They continue to be irrational in not seeing any…
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Your Father Abraham rejoiced because He saw my Day
Jesus continues in the gospel today to equate Himself with God. The Jews continue to resist Him and are adamant with their short-sighted views of Him.
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Jesus Will Make You Really Free
The truth will set you free. If Jesus identifies Himself with the Truth--since He declared that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life--then, He is inviting us…
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When You Have Lifted Up the Son of Man, then You will Know that I am He
Today's gospel teaches us the parallel drawn by the Lord between what happened to the chosen people on their long journey to the promised land and what Jesus…
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I am the Light of the World
Jesus is the Light of the World. That assumes that there is darkness first. We need God to shed light on the world, events, natural mysteries, etc. Otherwise…
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Let the One Among You Who is Without Sin Be the First to Throw a Stone at Her
Truly, this gospel of today is one of the most moving in the life of Jesus. Are we to condemn the adulteress caught in the act of adultery? Off the cuff, we…
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The Christ Will Not Come From Galilee, Will He?
A division was forming among the crowd surrounding Jesus. On one hand, were those who opined that Jesus was the long-awaited Messiah for the usual obvious…