October 31, Sunday THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME There is no greater love than that which disposes someone to give up one’s life for others. Jesus, the person who tells us this, proved by his own life and death that he meant what he said. He insists that love of God and love […]
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Thirtieth Week In Ordinary Time KNOW YOUR PLACE If a trusted friend proves disloyal, we feel badly hurt and find it almost impossible to remain faithful. Not so with God. He remains faithful to Israel, of which all but a small rest abandoned him. Yet, the Jews keep a role in God’s plans by facilitating, […]
October 29, Friday Thirtieth Week In Ordinary Time We are the new Israel, the people of God’s promise, the new chosen people. God has given us many privileges. Is the anguish that Paul expresses with regard to Israel not to be felt by the Church too, with regard to many Christians, and by many […]
October 28, Thursday Thirtieth Week In Ordinary Time Little is known about these apostles. The nickname “Zealot” probably indicates the Simon had been among the anti-Roman activists before he became an apostle. Jude, brother of James and also called Thaddeus, asked Jesus after the Last Supper how Jesus could show himself to the […]
October 27, Wednesday Thirtieth Week In Ordinary Time Our destiny in life is to be images of Christ, people who resemble him more and more. If we are open to the Spirit, he will help us to become more and more like Christ and he will pray in us. For disciples of Christ, it is […]
October 26, Tuesday Thirtieth Week In Ordinary Time Creation itself, says St. Paul, is to be liberated and redeemed together with the people living in it. As they become freer, people will use God’s creation and technical progress not to destroy but to build up and to serve, to liberate more and more everyone […]
October 25, Monday Thirtieth Week In Ordinary Time We are sons and daughters of God because the Spirit of Christ, the perfect Son, is alive in us. With Christ and through his Spirit, we can call God our Father. He is a father with a love warm and tender as that of a mother. […]
October 24, Sunday Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Let all of us to whom God has given good eyes thank God wholeheartedly for the gift of sight. But today the Lord asks us: Do you see with the eyes of your heart what I am asking of you? Do you see the way I […]
October 23, Saturday TWENTY-NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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 struggle to make […]
October 22, Friday TWENTY-NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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 within them. We […]