“SIR, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it; it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down.” With these words from the Gospel of St. Luke (cfr. Lk 13,1-9), we are reminded that we have to
March 19, 2022
THE parable about the ungrateful tenants (cfr. Mt 21:33-43,45-46) somehow reminds us about the importance of being thankful by reciprocating what we receive from God and from others. It keeps our relation with them alive and vibrant. Taking this duty for granted would actually alienate us from them, and thus suffer
March 18, 2022
“THERE was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores…” (Lk 16,19-20) With this parable, Christ is telling us about the problem of the rich and the blessedness of
March 17, 2022
“BEHOLD, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified, and he will be raised on the
March 16, 2022
“WHOEVER exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” (Mt 23,12) With these words, Christ wants us always to be humble since humility is a basic virtue that guarantees our adherence to the truth. It enables us to be consistent in our life, with our intentions, words
March 15, 2022
“BE merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Stop judging and you will not be judged…For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.” (Lk 9,36-38) We need to process these words of Christ slowly if only to conform ourselves to them, something that given
March 14, 2022
THE gospel of the 2nd Sunday of Lent brings us to that wonderful event in the life of the apostles when some of them witnessed that amazing transfiguration of Christ. “While he (Christ) was praying his face changed in appearance and his clothing became dazzling white.” (Lk 9,28) We may wonder
March 12, 2022
By Fr. Roy Cimagala “UNLESS your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven.” (Mt 5,20) With these words, Christ is telling us how our righteousness should be. And that is that we have to have the righteousness that truly comes from God. It should not
March 11, 2022
“Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.” (Mt 7,7-8) The words of Christ are very clear. We are
March 10, 2022
“This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah.” (Lk 11,29) With these words of Christ, we are somehow asked to develop a strong faith by going through continuing conversion all throughout our life. We should be concerned
March 9, 2022
YES, we have to be most wary of these two spiritual anomalies that can easily come to us. In that gospel episode where Christ talked about the last judgment, he told the goats—the evil men—that precisely they had these anomalies. “Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for
March 8, 2022
WE have to be wary of the danger to turn our prayer into mere babble of words. Christ pointed this out when he said: “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words.” (Mt 6,7) To be sincere in our
March 7, 2022
