Tag Archive | God

Homily for 5th Sunday of Lent

We are now in the fifth or the Last Sunday of Lent. All throughout Lent, as well as in Holy Week, our SPECIAL focus is Jesus. SO it’s worth looking back how is Jesus portrayed in all the gospels that were read in the previous Sundays of Lent. On the first Sunday we have Jesus who […]

How to Pray with the Gospels?

Our best source of prayer will always be the New Testament. The Gospel of the Day in particular is best prayed in a  contemplative way. Here are some suggestions for this: 1. Pick a short passage from one of the Gospels and read it once. 2. Settle into a comfortable posture,conducive to peacefully listening to God. […]

Reflecting on the Gospel of John [Jn 5:1-3,5-16]

“NO man is an island,” John Dunne said. No one can live independent of anyone else. That’s why we have ears because we need to listen to other, we have eyes because we need to look at others, we have mouth because we need to talk to others, we have nose, because we need to […]

Reflecting the gospel today…

“It’s not dying for faith that’s so hard, it’s living up to it.” William Makepeace Thackeray seems to have captured the essence of being a believer. We believe because we are alive, not dead. Belief is useless for the dead. As a believer, as Christians at that, we are called to live up with this […]