June 13, Sunday Patience: These Are Only Seeds We live in a time that expects efficiency and immediate results. But a plant or a tree needs time to grow, and human relations cannot be built nor our problems solved overnight. People too need time to grow and change. Fortunately, God is patient with […]
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June 12, Saturday Tenth Week in Ordinary Time The celebration in honor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is closely linked to the solemnity of the […]
June 11, Friday Tenth Week in Ordinary Time No Greater Love Because our vision is narrow and limited, people pictured the great and unnamable God as inaccessible in a distant, fortified palace, wherein he withdrew after creating the world and people and where people’s sins could not harm him. Yet even in […]
June 10, Thursday Tenth Week in Ordinary Time In the rather difficult first reading, Paul states that in the New Testament there is the freedom of the Spirit. We see God in the mirror of Christ. In the Gospel Christ tells us that our practice of love should go farther than that […]
June 9, Wednesday Tenth Week in Ordinary Time Paul, defending his ministry against Jewish converts who insist on their prerogatives, states that the new covenant is superior to the old one as the life-giving Spirit is superior to the death-bringing law. Jesus says something similar in words that at first sight seem […]
TENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LIGHT IS ITS OWN PROOF: SALT AND LIGHT During the communist regime in Poland, only a dozen or so Catholic secondary schools for girls remained under the direction of religious sisters. They had to follow the state program without any religion. When asked whether there was still any sense […]
TENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME BEATITUDES “As we have shared in the sufferings of Christ, so do we share in his consolation,” Paul tells us today. What Jesus proposes in the beatitudes is a turning upside-down of values, (attuned with the message of Paul in Year I). But we are not […]
The Body and Blood of Christ My Body and Blood for You We admire great men and women who dedicated their lives to the good of others and were even willing to die for them. This is precisely what we celebrate whenever we come together for the Eucharist. We celebrate Jesus’ life and […]
June 5, Saturday NINETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME When Tobias thanks the angel Raphael and wants to remunerate him, the angel reveals that all the good things that happened to both the old and the young Tobias and their family came from God. They should thank God himself. Jesus, who lived in the […]
June 4, Friday NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME The piety of old Tobias and the endurance in his suffering are finally rewarded. In God’s name, the angel Raphael, whose name means “God heals,” cures Tobias from his blindness. Using a rabbinic form of argumentation, Jesus states that he is more than a descendant of […]