TASTE AND SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORDBPS 34:9 How do we taste the goodness of the Lord? How do we see the goodness of the Lord? What do we mean by the goodness...
Many times because of our Father wounds we resist any of the times God reaches out to love us. We can’t accept his love because we wrongly believe that we are not worthy....
Yes, we are spiritual sons and daughters of God by grace and a son or daughter of our human father by nature. Our relationship with the natural father is learned and experienced through...
Homily Seventeenth Sunday Year B Reading 1: Elisha is a prophet of the Lord. God chose him to succeed Elijah the prophet at the end of his mission on earth. As Elijah performed...
Every day God says to us: “You are my son (daughter).” God the Father wants to embrace each of us each day with the same abandoned love, unconditional love, unmerited love. Each of...
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Gospel B After this, Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee (of Tiberias). A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the...
The father of the prodigal loves his son; he never stopped loving him. He longs for the day he will see his son again. He looks for him daily. His prayers go out...
The most beautiful depiction of the Father’s love and mercy, compassion and true desire for us is that told to us in the Parable of the Father and his two sons. I call...
God the Father loves his Son. The Son receives the love in thanksgiving. In receiving the Father’s love thus the Son acknowledges the Father’s love and validates it. Knowing that the Son receives...
Our image of God as Father and our image of ourselves as beloved sons and daughters may not reflect the reality of God and the reality of our true identity. Our image of...
Homily Sixteenth Sunday Year B Reading 1: Jeremiah reminds the people of his day why they would be sent into exile. At the same time, he tells them that God will bring them...
There was a point that Jesus in his humanity became and was so in love with God the Father that he desired to do only his will. As he came to realize the...
Sixteenth Sunday Ordinary Time: Gospel B The apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. · He had sent them on mission two by two to prepare for...
Embraced by the Father. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, as he chose us in...
When God gives himself to us in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, he expects that our response to him would be a desire and a decision to live in union with him more...
If I truly reflect on what happens at the time I receive the Body and Blood of Jesus and afterwards, I may recognize a dysfunction. My eyes gaze on Jesus sacramentally present and...
Our third response to the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist is transformation. If we really understood what has happened, we should not be the same after the reception of Communion as...
Homily Fifteenth Sunday Year B Reading 1: Background. Because of the sins of the Kings of Israel beginning with Solomon, the unified Kingdom of David was divided into two: the Northern Kingdom of...
Our second response to the Lord's presence is reverential awe and worship before the Eucharistic presence of Jesus, after receiving him in Communion and later during Eucharistic Exposition. What an awesome privilege it...
