Reflection: Matthew 13:31-35 Yesterday the Church observed the Day of Prayer for Grandparents and elderly. St. Joachim and St. Anne, grandparents of Jesus were venerated as the patrons saints of the grandparents. Today the Church celebrates the memoria of St. Joachim and St. Anne. The story of Joachim and Anne do not appear in the […]
July 25, Sunday Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time The traditional sign in the scriptures that God loves us and cares for us is that he provides food for his people, usually bread, the staple food in much of the world. Can we believe this when so many go hungry? Let us first ask ourselves […]
Reflection: John 6: 1-15 The problem of food has been one of the most urgent issues for most of humanity throughout history. And we are referring to material hunger. Today’s Gospel tells us about Jesus feeding five thousand men who were probably together with their family with five loaves of bread and two fish, donated […]
July 24, Saturday SIXTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Today’s first reading describes the rite of the covenant, by which Israel became God’s chosen people with whom God made a blood compact, a Sangduguan, whereby they became his blood relations. “I am the Lord your God” (in the singular, “thy” term of intimacy). The tremendous, […]
Reflection: Matthew 13:24-30 Today the Gospel speaks of two contrasting attitudes – annoyance and irritation of man and the patience of God. The servants wants to act in haste and are impatient while the land owner represents God, who is ready to wait patiently. At times we are in a great hurry to judge, to […]
Rome, Italy. As of June 1, 2021, Pope Francis has appointed our brother and friend, Fr. Henry Omonisaye – General Consultor of our Congregation – as a member of the Board of Directors of the AVEPRO Agency for five years. Read More
July 23, Friday SIXTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME “I am the Lord your God. I brought you… out of the house of slavery.” These opening words of the commandments mark the meaning that the Old Testament gave to God’s commandments. They are the charter of fidelity for us, God’s partners, to the God of […]
Reflection: Matthew 13:18-23 We come today to the explanation of the parable of the sower. Many scripture scholars today believe, that this interpretation to the parable of Jesus may be coming from the tradition of the early Church. The parable focuses on the sower while its interpretation looks much more at the soil in which […]
Chapter 10 of the Gospel according to John, is a continuation of chapter 9. It is not trivial. Generally, the content in which Jesus announces that he is the good shepherd is read separately from the content of chapter 9, that is, the masterly narration of the man born blind in the pool of […]
July 22, Thursday Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Contrary to popular belief, which is based on a rather late “tradition” in the West only, Mary Magdalene is not the sinful woman described in Luke 7. We know that she was from Magdala and had been cured by the Lord. She became an eager and […]