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...

Seventh Sunday of Easter

by | Jun 1, 2019 | Meditations

We are almost at the end of the Easter Season. Next week we will begin the long stretch of Ordinary Time, which will extend from the Feast of Pentecost until Saturday of the 34th Week of the Year. This time between the Ascension and Pentecost gives us an opportunity...