Spiritual Reflections

Isaiah 50:5-9 James 2:14-18 Mark 8: 27-35 Today, the twenty-fourth Sunday of ordinary time, we honor and celebrate Christ, the son of God, who humbly accepted the weakness of our human condition. He demonstrated his solidarity with us by generously renouncing himself and taking the cross. Our...

TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY OF THE YEAR Josh 24:1-2,15-18, Eph 5:21-32, John6:60-69 Today the twenty-first Sunday of ordinary time, the church encourages us to always remain with Christ, the perfect teacher. At times, when we come to the crossroad of life, we become confused about which way to go or which...

20th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Prov. 9:1-6; Eph. 5:15-20; John 6:51-58 The first reading speaks about the Wisdom of God. Personifies as a woman. She invites us to a dinner. “Come and eat and drink and live forever.” Who are to be her quest? They are the simple and ignorant who are unhappy because...

1 Kings 4:42-44 / Ephesians 4:1-6 / John 6:1-15 In the gospel, a large crowd was following Jesus because they were impressed with the signs He gave by curing the sick. And the gospel tells us that the large crowd numbered around 5,000. That is quite a crowd. And then Jesus asked His disciples if...

Trinity Sunday, Year B Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40 / Romans 8:14-17 / Matthew 28:16-20 We gathered every week in the church for one main purpose. And that is to pray and to offer worship to God. As individuals, we want to pray for our own needs and intentions. But united in faith, we become the...

Pentecost Sunday Brothers, today is Pentecost Sunday. We are celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles in Jerusalem, marking the birth of the Church in mission. In the gospel, the Risen Lord speaks of the Holy Spirit to his disciples. He told them that the Holy Spirit is the...

5th Sunday of Easter (YEAR B) Acts 9: 26-31; Ps 22; 1John 3 :18-24; Jn 15: 1-8 Today is the Fifth Sunday of Easter and the gospel tells us a conversation of Jesus with His disciples during their supper before His arrest. Jesus used the image of a plant. He is the vine and his disciples the...

Fourth Sunday of Easter Year B (Good Shepherd Sunday) Acts 4: 8-12; 1John3:1-2; John 10:11-18 Today is the Fourth Sunday of Easter, also called Good Shepherd Sunday. The gospel proclaims Jesus as the good shepherd who gave up his life for his flock. During the holy season of Lent, which came to a...

3rd Sunday of Easter Year B Acts 3:13-15,17-19; 1John 2:1-5; Luke 24: 35-48 We are in the third Sunday of Easter, and in today’s gospel, the Risen Lord appears again to His disciples. They are still troubled; broken apart and scattered by His crucifixion and death and is reweaving them together...

SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER – B ACTS 4:32-35 PSALM 118 1 JOHN 5:1-6 JOHN 20:19-31 Today is the second Sunday of Easter, which is also celebrated as Divine Mercy Sunday. In today’s gospel, the Risen Lord breathes the Holy Spirit on His disciples and sends them to forgive sin. Jesus wants his disciples...

Acts 10:34,37-43; Col. 3:1-4; John 20:1-19 The Lord is risen, brothers and sisters, alleluia! On the third day, Jesus rose from the dead as he had said to his disciples. And we have, in John’s gospel that would be proclaimed today, the figures Mary of Magdala, Simon Peter, and “the other disciple...

 Isaiah 50:4-7 Philippians 2:6-11 Mark14:1-15:39 Today is the Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, the beginning of the Holy Week. After we commemorate Jesus’ triumphant entrance into Jerusalem in the opening liturgy, the gospel takes us to Jesus’s last supper with his disciples; his agony, arrest,...

FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT Jer.31:31-34; Ps. 50:3-15; Hebrew 5:7-9; John 12:20-30 Today on the 5th Sunday of Lent, we journey with Christ as he prepares himself to embrace the hour of humiliation and suffering, the hour of his impending death. The first reading of this Sunday is an assurance of God’s...

3rd SUNDAY OF LENT Exodus 20. 1-17; 1Cor.1.18, 22-25; John 2. 13-25 Antiphon: Psalm 24.15-16: “My eyes are always on the Lord, for he rescues my feet from the snare. Turn to me and have mercy on me, for I am alone and poor.” This is a most human cry. There are times in our lives when we feel...

Genesis 22:1-2,9-13,15 Romans 8:31-35,37 Mark 9:2-10 God is in everything we do. St Paul wrote in the second reading “if God is for us, who can be against us.” Scripture uses Mountains as the stages of important encounters between God and his people. Today’s first reading and the Gospel take place...