Homilies and Lectio Divina

Reading 1 – Zechariah 9:9-10 Psalm – Psalm 145:1-14 Reading 2 – Romans 8:-9-13 Gospel – Matthew 11:25-30 Reflection: Our world today is bombarded with so much work, always in haste, and is in dire need of rest. In our gospel this Sunday, Jesus invites us to come to Him, to find in Him the…

Reflection: Our gospel this Sunday exhorts us of two essential aspects of our lives. First, the Cross is inevitable in Christian life. Jesus invites us to enter into His passion so that we may live our lives as worthy children of God. To follow Jesus is to carry our cross daily and this means that…

Reflection: As we celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus et Sanguis Christi, we are invited to reflect on our faith in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharistic Species that we receive in Holy Communion.

Reflection: We are now back to the Ordinary Time of the Liturgy, but as we begin this second part of this season, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.

Mass Readings Reading 1 — Isaiah 55:10-11 Psalm — Psalm 65:10-15 Reading 2 — Romans 8:-18-23 Gospel — Matthew 13:1-23 Today’s scripture readings can give us a real sense of hope, because in a very powerful way, they proclaim that the power of the word of God will be fulfilled. In the first reading, the…

Mk 9:41-50 Today we are strongly warned.

“You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of the hell will never conquer it. I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven.” -Mt 16:18-19 Saying this, Jesus renamed Simon into Peter (Rock) and made him first Pope of His Church. Today is the Feast…

Forty days after Jesus’ birth, Mary and Joseph presented Him at the Temple in obedience to Jewish law. It is the consecration of the first born male to the Lord. The original idea was the firstborn belonged to the Lord and would spend his life serving the Lord. Today we celebrate this event as the…

Today we celebrate the Conversion of St. Paul. Jesus converted Saul, persecutor of Christians, into Paul, Champion of Christianity. The 1st Reading tells the dramatic conversion, how he was struck down by a great light and heard Jesus speak to him. Similarly it can take a tragedy or illness to strike us off our high…

2Tm 1:1-8 LK 10:1-9 After the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle, today we honor the heroic work of 2 of his disciples, Sts. Timothy and Titus. Paul, the Church builder, ordained them bishops of the churches in Ephesus and Crete where they taught what they learned and passed on the faith amidst great trials.…