"The Lord measures our perfection neither by the multitude nor the magnitude of our deeds, but by the manner in which we perform them" (St. John of the Cross).Another way of saying this...
Homily: Feast of all Saints Year A Reading 1: Throughout the year we celebrate and remember the many canonized saints. These are the people, who have lived exemplary lives or given their lives for...
"Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power. Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil." (Ephesians...
Thirty-first Sunday Gospel Reflections Year AThen Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees have taken their seat on the chair of Moses. Therefore, do and...
"Let the enemy rage at the gate, let him knock, let him push, let him cry, let him howl, we know for certain that he cannot enter save by the door of our...
There were three young devils their taking final examination in Hell. They were trembling in cold sweat despite the heat. Their Principal, Professor Satan, looked at them and said: “Just one question, what...
"It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong; Not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we...
"Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness that comes from the good example of a praiseworthy and blameless life. They must completely remove from their...
Today is the feast of St John Paul II. Here is a quote from him."It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else...
Homily: Thirtieth Sunday Year A Reading 1: Last Sunday, we heard: “I am the Lord, your God. There is no other God besides me.” It was in this context that God revealed...
"A moment of crisis is a moment of choice, it is a moment that puts us in front of the decisions we have to make. Everyone in life has had and will have moments...
Reflection on Scripture Thirtieth Sunday Gospel Year A One thing necessary: Love
By spiritaflame 10:19 AMThirtieth Sunday Gospel Year AWhen the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them a scholar of the law tested him by asking, "Teacher, which commandment...
Jesus says something in the Gospels that should cause us to pause and assess ourselves. In the Gospel of Luke we read this statement: "So it is when someone stores up treasures for...
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." (St Teresa of Calcutta)How often we find ourselves out of sorts. Is it because we are living in...
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"Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. Somewhere we know that without a lonely place our actions quickly...
"God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see...
"The world offers you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness" (Pope Benedict).The comfort the world offers is here today but gone tomorrow. There is nothing wrong...
Homily: Twenty-ninth Sunday Year A Reading 1: What is the central message of the prophet? “I am the Lord, there is no other. There is no God besides me.” That is a...
"All people are born as originals but many die as photocopies" (Blessed Carlos Acutis).What a perceptive insight from a young teenager, who recently was beatified!We come into this world as one of a...
Twenty-ninth Sunday Gospel AThen the Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap him in speech.· We have another confrontational story between the leaders and Jesus. · The question that is posed...
"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless" (G.K. Chesterton)Who does this...
Is eternal life something in the future or is it here and now? What is eternal life? Is it not life with and in God forever? Is it not God's divine life shared...
“I am certain of this: neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nothing already in existence and nothing still to come, nor any power, nor the heights nor the depths, nor any...
Homily: Twenty-eighth Sunday Year A Reading 1: The prophet is talking to exiles, who have lost everything in which they had put their hopes in: property, security, freedom, material goods, jobs, house....
"The remembrance of my faults humbles me; and it helps me never to rely upon my own strength--which is but weakness--but more than all, it speaks to me of mercy and of love....
TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY: YEAR AJesus again in reply spoke to them in parables, saying, · This Gospel parable has a number of similarities with last Sunday’s Gospel, the parable of the tenants: a) two groups...
A Saint has said: "The greatest honor God can bestow upon a soul is not to give to it great things, but to ask of it great things." Why so? Sometimes the person can...
"He (God) does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He will. As St. Paul says: 'God will have mercy on whom He will have mercy. So then it is not...
"How can we live in the midst of a world marked by fear, hatred, and violence, and not be destroyed by it? When Jesus prays to his Father for his disciples he responds...
"For (St. Paul) insists that the greater gifts are nothing at al without love and that this same love is surely the best path leading directly to God....Love appeared to me to be...
