Homily: Twenty-seventh Sunday Year A Reading 1: The relationship between God and the Chosen People of Israel. God gave Israel the land of promise, provided for its needs, protected them from their...
"Our life is full of brokenness--broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence...
Twenty-seventh Sunday Ordinary Gospel: AJesus said: "Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then...
"We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything"...
"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not...
Homily Twenty-sixth Sunday Year A Reading 1: This reading is a parallel to last Sunday’s first reading. Today, God gives an example of application of the prophetic word: “My ways are not...
"I must yield myself into His arms. I shall not know very often the way He wishes me to go. It may be only one step at a time, and then darkness again;...
"Humility and charity are the master chords that all other virtues depend upon. The one is the lowest, the other the highest. The preservation of the entire edifice depends on the foundation and...
Is our identity in our being or our doing? Many people would answer the latter. But the fact is my fundamental identity is in my being and not in my accomplishments. Who am...
"Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved....Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing...
Homily: Twenty-fifth Sunday Year A Reading 1: This reading speaks of an obvious mystery. Have you ever wondered, can God forgive me of my sins after all I have done? How could God...
"Be constantly committed to prayer or reading of the Scriptures; by praying, you speak to God; in reading, God speaks to you" (St. Cyprian).These two gifts have sustained many saints in their journey...
Twenty-fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time: Gospel AJesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing...
"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day....You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into...
"Had there been no cross, Christ could not have been crucified. Had there been no cross, life itself could not have been nailed to the tree. And if life had not been nailed...
There are other reasons why we sometimes find it hard to receive love from another. One reason is that we question the other person's motive. What's the catch, we ask ourselves? Can a...
One reason many people struggle with receiving love is due to a lie implanted in their brain when they were young. That lie is that one must earn love. How many people go...
Homily: Twenty-fourth Sunday Year A Reading 1: Listen to the first statement: “Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight.” Many times we have an eye for an...
To be human is to be loved and to love. Is it easier for us to give love to another than to receive love? For the most of us that is true. Why? ...
Reflection on Scriptures Twenty-fourth Sunday Gospel A Forgiveness demands forgiveness
By spiritaflame 10:15 AMTwenty-fourth Sunday Gospel AThen Peter approaching asked him, "Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?" · Peter thinks he is generous by saying...
How often we find ourselves or hear others complaining against God when they experience sufferings at the hands of others or some calamity happens in their lives. In their minds God should have...
There are so many mysteries revealed by God for our good. The Eucharist is one of those mysteries, revealed to us by Jesus, so that we can share in God’s divine life. Jesus...
That we have been redeemed, reconciled and saved from the eternal consequences of our sins is a mystery revealed to us by God. How else would we know that the death of the...
Homily: Twenty-third Sunday Year A Reading 1: What is the issue of this reading? It is obedience to God in all things, even in regards to one another. But this obedience is...
Thought of the Day September 2, 2020 Mystery of God: Incarnation
By spiritaflame 10:15 AM Thought of the DayIn becoming Man, the Son of God, the Word, reveals the mystery of God’s love, plan and power. Just as the mystery of the Trinity (three divine persons in the One God) is...
Reflection on Scripture Twenty-third Sunday Gospel A Forgiveness from the heart
By spiritaflame 10:48 AM Reading ReflectionsTwenty-Third Sunday A Gospel Then Peter approaching asked him, "Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?" · Peter thinks he is generous by...
What is the central mystery of God, from which all the other mysteries flow? Is it not the mystery of the Trinity, one God but three equal and distinct persons, Father, Son, and...
