October 21, Thursday TWENTY-NINETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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 all a gift from […]
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October 20, Wednesday TWENTY-NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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, […]
October 19, Tuesday TWENTY-NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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 by […]
October 18, Monday Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time 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 soul. […]
October 17, Sunday Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Have you noticed how in their campaign for office most politicians use the word “service”? Very much they say they want to be the servants of the people and to be elected so that they can serve. But when they are elected, whom do they serve? Most […]
October 16, Saturday TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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 […]
October 15, Friday TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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 the hands of […]
October 14, Thursday TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 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 free from sin […]
October 13,Wednesday TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Paul warns his Romans that they may not conduct themselves like the pagans, whose scandalous behavior he has just denounced. But all are called to conversion, whether of pagan or Jewish origin. For God shows no partiality. It is surprising that Jesus could cure all ills – the blind, […]
October 12, Tuesday TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME What really matters for us, what makes us what we should be, is faith. “The one who is righteous will live by faith.” Faith will make us live. But for Paul too faith is not just a belief in tenets. Faith expresses itself in deeds. In […]