October 11, Monday TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Starting today and for the next four weeks, we shall listen to Paul’s letter to the Romans. Today he presents himself as the Lord’s apostle, especially for the gentiles, and then he goes straight to the heart of the message he has to proclaim: that Jesus […]
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Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time What Do You Lack? Today the word of God challenges us: in what do you put your heart? Where is your security? What makes your life valuable and worthwhile? Here comes the advice of God’s word and wisdom as early as the Old Testament and here comes Jesus’ warning: Do […]
TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME WORDS BECOME DEEDS The prophets, like Joel today, do not speak of the day of judgment as an unqualified day of vengeance and punishment; hope is there, for the prophecy is a warning to seek conversion. If God’s people change their ways, God will be merciful and restore them. In […]
TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME JESUS, STRONGER THAN EVIL Judgment. It is an uneasy word. A discomforting possibility. Will it be a discomforting reality? The answer lies in us. The answer lies in our world. Our options are clear. We are facing the evil in ourselves and in the world. In a way we judge […]
October 7, Thursday TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME To the prophet Malachi and the pious Jews, the apparently happy life of sinners was a scandal. To them, who practiced their faith, God seemed absent and not listening to their prayers. But God will hear them and do justice to each on the day of […]
October 6, Wednesday TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME God is a saving God. He calls all people to salvation in Jesus Christ, and he does not discriminate or segregate. His kingdom is open to all people, all races, all cultures, all languages, and all walks of life. And those who are most in need […]
October 5, Tuesday TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME In Jonah’s experience, God’s word is very powerful if we bring it to people in the name of God and if they are open to it. A hospitable family or person makes guests feel at home and gives them the best available. But if we are […]
October 4, Monday TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Jonah is not a prophetic but a humoristic, didactic book. In an ironic way it teaches a surprising universalism: God wants also pagans to be converted. Perhaps it also teaches prophets to accept their mission and not to refuse to seek the conversion even of the […]
October 3, Sunday Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time The first pages of the Bible tell us that God created man and woman in his own image. That means that God, who is love, wanted to unite them in the bond of love and make them live for the love of each other. That is how […]
October 2, Saturday TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME THE JOY OF LIBERATION In the 2nd century before Christ, a prophet borrowing the name of Baruch makes Jerusalem speak a message of hope and joy to her scattered children in the Diaspora. God will liberate them from their infidelities. Today we hear the closing […]