"Man is never wholly free from temptation...but with patience and true humility we become stronger than any enemy. The patience and humility required to defeat the enemy come by following Christ every day...
"Sin is that process which makes us change our hearts from good to bad, which takes us downhill, something which grows, slowly grows, then infects others and ultimately excuses itself....When we find ourselves...
Homily: Second Sunday of Lent Year B Reading 1: Last Sunday we heard of the covenant God made with Noah after the flood. The sign of that covenant was the rainbow. The...
Thought of the Day February 24, 2021 Follow the pattern of Jesus in temptation
By spiritaflame 10:15 AM"If in Christ we have been tempted, in him we overcame the devil. Do you think only of Christ's temptations and fait to think of his victory? See yourself as tempted in him,...
"He (Jesus) made us one with him when he chose to be tempted by Satan. We have heard in the gospel how the Lord Jesus Christ was tempted by the devil in the...
"Our pilgrimage on earth cannot be exempt from trial. We progress by means of trial. No one knows himself except through trial, or receives a crown except after victory, or strives except against...
"Prayer and converse with God is a supreme good: it is a partnership and union with God. As the eyes of the body are enlightened when they see light, soo our spirit, when...
"The journey of Lent is an exodus from slavery to freedom. These 40 days correspond to the 40 years that God's people trekked through the desert to return to their homeland. How difficult...
Homily: First Sunday of Lent Year B Reading 1: A covenant is a sacred agreement between God and man. It is unbroken, unlike a contract. God, in his loving mercy, desires us to have...
“Lent is the time to rediscover the direction of life. Because in life’s journey, as in every journey, what really matters is not to lose sight of the goal…What is the path? Is it...
First Sunday of Lent: Gospel BThe Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. · The same Spirit that descended upon Jesus after...
“In Lent, may we be increasingly concerned with “speaking words of comfort, strength, consolation and encouragement, and not words that demean, sadden, anger or show scorn” (Fratelli Tutti, 223). In order to give...
“In these times of trouble, when everything seems fragile and uncertain, it may appear challenging to speak of hope. Yet Lent is precisely the season of hope, when we turn back to God...
A lot of times we look upon Lent as a negative time. We hear the call to repent and turn away from sin. But do we hear also the positive aspect of these...
The third prong of Lent is almsgiving. The Catechism of the Catholic Church # 2462 states: almsgiving is "a witness to fraternal charity" and "a work of justice pleasing to God." Most people...
Homily Sixth Sunday Year B Reading 1: In those days, leprosy was a highly contagious disease. Because of lack of medical knowledge, they did not know how a person got leprosy, nor...
The second focus of Lent is fasting. There are two specific days we are to fast (one main meal and two light meals) and abstain from meat. Those are Ash Wednesday and Good...
Sixth Sunday of Year: Gospel Reflections BA leper came to him (and kneeling down) begged him and said, "If you wish, you can make me clean." · In the Old Testament we find two...
As we prepare to enter the grace-season of Lent, one of the areas we are called to focus on is our prayer life. What is God asking us to do in this area...
Ash Wednesday is a little over a week away. It is not too soon to begin to think about what does God want you to do during the season of Lent to prepare...
How many people call themselves followers of Jesus Christ, but are such in name only, not in commitment to the way of his disciple? They are looking for the emotional highs of their...
I believe that what God wants us to experience and enjoy is right there before us. But we are too focus on something in the future or in the distance. We struggle with...
Homily Fifth Sunday Year B To be in relationship with God is not easy but right
By spiritaflame 11:54 AMHomily: Fifth Sunday Year B Reading 1: We can possibly relate to Job’s negative attitude about life in general and his life in particular. Life feels like a drudgery, with long periods...
"Obedience to God is like 'the center thread that comes down' that supports a spider's beautiful web hanging on a hedge. Descending from the top by this thread it produces, the spider constructs...
Fifth Sunday of the Year: Gospel B On leaving the synagogue he entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John.· This is in Capernaum. In fact, excavations in that town have...
"As long as we belong to this world, we will remain subject to its competitive ways and expect to be rewarded for all the good we do. But when we belong to God,...
Who among us do not have many of anxieties and burdens? Everyday brings its own struggles and concerns. That's part of our human experience. How are we to deal with them? In 1...
