Twenty Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

by | Sep 14, 2019 | Meditations

Today’s Gospel contains some of the most beautiful and popular stories in the Bible. The parables of the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin and the Lost (“Prodigal”) Son are frequently mentioned, especially when we talk about God’s mercy. Today we have an opportunity to...

Twenty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

by | Sep 7, 2019 | Meditations

Jesus sometimes makes statements which sound harsh to our ears. For example: “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” How can he tell us to hate our...

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

by | Aug 17, 2019 | Meditations

The Christian life is a joyful and fulfilling journey. However, since we follow on this journey a King who revealed his glory through the suffering and injustice of the Cross, we cannot expect to be free of all sufferings. The Cross of Christ, which will always appear...

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

by | Jul 6, 2019 | Meditations

Sometimes our call as missionary disciples is truly challenging. It is, after all, a call to follow Jesus in the way of the Cross. It demands detachment and firm commitment, as we saw last Sunday. But we should not conclude from all this that discipleship is all...

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

by | Jun 15, 2019 | Meditations

Today we celebrate the most central faith mystery of all, the mystery of God himself, the Holy Trinity. How can we even begin to talk about the mystery of God? In our effort to think about him, we find ourselves lost in the limitless, timeless, incomprehensible divine...

Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church

by | Jun 9, 2019 | Meditations

It is most fitting that today, Monday after the Solemnity of the Pentecost, we celebrate the new Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. It can rightly be said that Pentecost is the day that the mission of the Church started, the day when the...