“It is not enough for me that God has given me grace once, but He must give it always. I ask, that I may receive; and when I have received, I ask again....
“Gratitude for graces received is one of the best means for obtaining new graces." St. Vincent de Paul (1581-1660) We have much to be grateful for. What are the graces we have...
“Faith together with works, chastity together with humility, fasting together with moderation, poverty together with generosity, patience without resentment, work without grumbling, religion without hypocrisy — all these things are contained in holiness.”...
Homily Twenty-sixth Sunday Year B Reading 1: It is the Lord who is the initiator and the source of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, one of which is prophesy. God’s Spirit was...
“Christ first of all, Christ in the center of the heart, in the center of history and of the cosmos. Humanity needs Christ intensely because, He is our ‘measure.’ There is no realm, that cannot...
Reflection on the Scriptures Twenty-sixth Sunday Gospel B Christ, our focus
By spiritaflame 10:15 AMTwenty-six Sunday Gospel BJohn said to Jesus, "Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us." · What is your first...
“My joy is in leading a hidden life unknown to others.” St. Euphrasia of the Sacred Heart (1877-1952) The desire to live a hidden life is so that we do not draw...
"I shall be able to do much more for you in Heaven than I can now while I am on earth," Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina (1887-1968) The intercessions of the Saints...
“The Lord who made the beginning will take care of the finish!” St John of Capistrano (1486-1556) In the beginning God made all that is good. In the end God will bring...
“A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life.” St. John Fisher (1469 –1535) There...
Homily Twenty-fifth Sunday Year B Reading 1: Last Sunday, we read from the prophet Isaiah where he prophesied about one who would suffer innocently. It is called the Song of the Suffering Servant...
Clearly, what God wants, above all, is our will, which we received as a free gift from God in creation and possess as though our own. When a man trains himself to acts...
Twenty-fifth Sunday Gospel BThey left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but Jesus did not wish anyone to know about it. He was teaching his disciples and telling them, "The Son...
“Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.” St. Francis de Sales Life is full of little opportunities, given to us to serve the Lord. But because...
“Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.” St. Cyprian of Carthage The First Commandment is “I am the Lord, your God, you shall not have strange gods...
Homily: Twenty-Fourth Sunday Year B Reading 1: Who is Isaiah prophesying about? “I gave my back to those who beat me, my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting….The Lord...
“It is our vocation to set people’s hearts ablaze, to do what the Son of God did, who came to light a fire on earth in order to set it ablaze with His...
Twenty-fourth Sunday Year B Now Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?" They said in...
"My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to give ourselves to the work and to be faithful to him,...
“We must speak to them with our hands by giving, before we try to speak to them with our lips.” St. Peter Claver The old saying, “Actions speak louder than words” is...
“When you feel restless, sad, sorrowful and embittered, look for the cause, and if it is not worth being sorry about (and nothing that does not offend God is worth being sorry...
"God speaks in the silence of the heart.” St Teresa of Calcutta When the prophet Elijah waited to hear God’s plan for him, it was in the quiet whisper in silence that he...
Homily Twenty-Third Sunday Year B Reading 1: Background. People are exiled in Babylonia because they broke their sacred covenant with God. Isaiah gives them a message of hope from God. He said that...
“We do not want to curse anyone, we do not want to hold anything against anyone, and we want to be good to everyone.” Blessed Joseph Georg Simon Häfner When we are...
Twenty-Third Sunday Year BAgain Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. · Jesus goes to Sidon which is...
"There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and...
“I calmly do what I can, the rest is done by the Lord, who can do everything. With his help everything is light and smooth, because we serve a good master.” Blessed...
