Category Archives: Daily Liturgy

TWENTY-NINETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YOU ARE IN THE SPIRIT   Introduction       Christians too, like anyone else, have to fight within themselves the tyranny of sin. They are torn beings, capable of the worst, yet capacitated for the best by the Spirit of Christ. They have to make Christ’s experience their own. We have to […]

TWENTY-NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES   Introduction       St Paul describes the experience of converts. They realize that before their conversion, notwithstanding their good will, they were incapable of following their conscience or the Law of Moses. But now that they know Christ they can win their struggles against the evil […]

TWENTY-NINETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME I HAVE COME TO BRING FIRE   Introduction       Christ has set us free for the kingdom and the life and love of God. It is a liberty that is no longer license, a liberty that reshapes us in Christ and opens us to service of God and people. It is […]

TWENTY-NINETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME FREE AND VIGILANT   Introduction       Persons who have been set free from the slavery of sin, says Paul, should live in the grace of God as free persons. They can only serve what is right and good. They should live as a free and responsible Christians.       In the Gospel, […]

TWENTY-NINETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME SOLIDARITY IN SIN   Introduction       We are one in our weaknesses, one also in God’s love and in the salvation he offers us in Christ in the solidarity of grace. Sinners and saints at the same time, the enemy in us and paradise within us, we long to be saved […]

Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time LUKE, Evangelist   Introduction A man concerted from a heartless paganism is struck by Christ, the Lord, who is concerned about the poor and the downtrodden; a physician, he is fascinated too by a man who is more than a man, Christ the Lord who heals the sick body and […]

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time   Power Is Dangerous Greatness through Service   Greeting (see Second Reading) We have here among us a high priest capable of feeling our weaknesses and who was tempted in every way that we are, though he was without sin. With his grace and mercy may Jesus be always with […]

TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME FAITH. FAITHFULNESS             Introduction       Faith consists in encountering a living God and taking him at his word, believing in a promise. This is what Abraham did, and God fulfilled the promise. This is, in a way, what two young people do when they embark on a marriage. They trust that […]

TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME IN THE HANDS OF GOD   Introduction Abraham was saved not by what he did but because, when he was a pagan and a sinner, he discovered a caring God in whom he believed. He knew that he stood before God with empty hands and consented to receive gratuitously from […]

TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME ALL ARE SAVED BY FAITH   Introduction       We cannot save ourselves by observing laws and relying on our religious practices. We are saved simply by the goodness of God who revealed himself to us in Christ. Even our faith is a gift from God and this faith will set us […]