Recent Comments
No comments to show.
Category Archives: Fr. Franco Pereira SDB
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
Posted in 2022-2023, Fr. Franco Pereira SDB, Lent, YEAR A
Comments Off on Year A – Third Sunday of Lent
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
Posted in 2022-2023, Fr. Franco Pereira SDB, Lent, YEAR A
Comments Off on Year A – Second Sunday of Lent
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
Posted in 2022-2023, Fr. Franco Pereira SDB, Lent, YEAR A
Comments Off on Year A – First Sunday of Lent
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
Posted in 2022-2023, Fr. Franco Pereira SDB, Ordinary Time I, YEAR A
Comments Off on Year A – Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Year A – Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Your Righteousness Must Go Deeper (Mt 5:20) The powerful invitation of the Sermon on the Mount, that we continue to listen to in the gospel reading of today, is to embrace the previous revelation of God and to be available … Continue reading
Posted in 2022-2023, Fr. Franco Pereira SDB, Ordinary Time I, YEAR A
Comments Off on Year A – Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Year A – Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
You are the salt of the earth… and light of the World (Mt 5:13-14) The sentences that we hear in the gospel reading of today immediately follow the Beatitudes. It is still part of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus … Continue reading
Posted in 2022-2023, Fr. Franco Pereira SDB, Ordinary Time I, YEAR A
Comments Off on Year A – Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Year A – Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Evangelizing Families “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Dear Friend, When Jesus called His disciples, He told them to come and follow Him. Jesus wanted His disciples to have His joy that is … Continue reading
Posted in 2022-2023, Fr. Franco Pereira SDB, Ordinary Time I, YEAR A
Comments Off on Year A – Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Year A – Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
“At once, leaving the boat and their father, they followed him” (Mt 4:12-23) The gospel text of today from Matthew narrates to us the beginning of the public ministry of Jesus in Capernaum. It was one of the principal towns … Continue reading
Posted in 2022-2023, Fr. Franco Pereira SDB, Ordinary Time I, YEAR A
Comments Off on Year A – Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Year A – Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Life Journey of John the Baptist (Jn 1:29-34) In the liturgical calendar, we are back to the ordinary time. But in our gospel reading there is an attempt to make the liturgy of today special. Perhaps it is just … Continue reading
Posted in 2022-2023, Fr. Franco Pereira SDB, Ordinary Time I, YEAR A
Comments Off on Year A – Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Year A – Solemnity of Our Lady of Arabia
MOTHER MOST ADMIRABLE Among the divinely inspired passages of Sacred Scripture, the one from the twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse is a compendium of all the great things that can be said or thought of our marvelous Queen. “A great … Continue reading
Posted in 2022-2023, Fr. Franco Pereira SDB, Ordinary Time I, YEAR A
Comments Off on Year A – Solemnity of Our Lady of Arabia