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Category Archives: 2022-2023
Year A – Second Sunday of Easter
FROM A COMMUNITARIAN FAITH TO A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF JESUS Today, as we conclude the octave of Easter – eight day celebration of this great feast – the Gospel passage of today concludes the series of events that we heard … Continue reading
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Year A – EASTER – The Resurrection of the Lord
EASTER LOVE- HE IS RISEN The other meaning of Easter is LOVE Love because it was the love of God that he not just send his Son to be with us, but to die for us and for our sins … Continue reading
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Year A – Holy (Maundy) Thursday
REFLECTIONS FOR HOLY THURSDAY REFLECTION 1 HOMILY STARTER ANECDOTES # 1: Man in the International Space Station Astronaut Mike Hopkins was one of the select few who spent six months on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2013. And though … Continue reading
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Year A – Palm Sunday
The King on a Donkey en-route to Die Today we begin the week of weeks in the liturgical calendar: the Holy Week. Today we begin the commemoration of the high points in the history of salvation: the passion, death and … Continue reading
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Year A – Fifth Sunday of Lent
True Faith is Alive Bethany was a town near Jerusalem where Jesus was evidently a frequent visitor (Mk 11:11; 14:3: Lk 10:38); Mary and Martha are presumably well known to John’s readers, Mary being identified as the woman who anointed … Continue reading
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Year A – Fourth Sunday of Lent
Coming to see Jesus, the Light of the World The gospel reading of this Sunday (the 2nd in the sequel) invites us to reflect on the story of the encounter between Jesus, the man born blind, his parents, and the … Continue reading
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Year A – Third Sunday of Lent
Restoring our Relationship with God One of the purposes of Lent is to restore one’s relationship with God as indicated in today’s readings. In today’ Gospel we see how Jesus helps the Samaritan woman to restore her relationship with God. … Continue reading
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Year A – Second Sunday of Lent
Transfiguration: Towards an Experience of God in Jesus Mountains are perceived to be locations of God-experience in many traditional cultures and in many world religions. This is true also in the Judeo-Christian tradition. It is not by chance then that … Continue reading
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Year A – First Sunday of Lent
Temptations: The Journey through the Wilderness ‘Forty’ is symbolic of a generation, a lifetime. The people of Israel walked in the wilderness for forty years (Dt 8:2). Practically, it was a new generation that entered ‘the Promised Land’ (Num 32:13). … Continue reading
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Year A – Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
“You must therefore be perfect just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Mt 5:48 Dachauwas the first Nazi concentration camp to be opened. It was basically a forced labor camp. Today it is open to the public. In this memorial … Continue reading
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