St Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest, pray for us25th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Monday 23rd September 2024Prov 3:27-35; Ps 14:2-5 Lk 8:16-18 (Ps Wk I) The book of Proverbs sets a clear practice to recognize the dues that rightly belong to others. It is a virtuous norm. “Do not withhold kindness from anyone to…
Trials, like a refining fire, make our lives authentic and stronger.25th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Sunday 22nd September 2024Wis 2:12, 17-20; Ps 53:3-6, 8; Jm 3:16—4:3; Mk 9:30-37 (Ps Wk I) God takes care of His children. Even the godless say so, “he will be looked after – we have His word for…
ST MATTHEW, APOSTLE & EVANGELIST, pray for us24th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Saturday 21st September 2024Eph 4:1-7, 11-13; Ps 18:2-5 Mt 9:9-13 (Ps Wk IV) The call of Matthew account is relatively straightforward and does not contain any comment by the author about his own thoughts or feelings about this experience. But that…
Sts. Laurent Imbert, Bishop, Jacques Chastan, Priest (Penang College General Fathers) Sts. Andrew Kim Tae-gon, Priest, Paul Chong Ha-sang & companions, Martyrs , pray for us24th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Friday 20th September 20241 Cor 15:12-20; Ps 16:1, 6-8, 15; Lk 8:1-3 (Ps Wk IV) Ponder awhile, regardless of your background, how many…
St. Januarius, Bishop & Martyr, pray for us24th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Thursday 19th September 20241 Cor 15:1-11; Ps 117:1-2, 16-17, 28; Lk 7:36-50 (Ps Wk IV) God has left us a clear set of teachings and an illuminated path to follow. But it is so easy to drift away and get off…
Lord, teach us to love untiringly; to love without obsessions to dominate! 24th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Wednesday 18th September 20241 Cor 12:31—13:13; Ps 32:2-5, 12, 22; Lk 7:31-35 (Ps Wk IV) Gullible Christians, like those in Corinth (modern day Greece), are very much taken up by the “display’’ of the spiritual gifts…
St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop & Doctor and St. Hildegard of Bingen, Virgin & Doctor, pray for us24th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Tuesday 17th September 20241 Cor 12:12-14, 27-31; Ps 99:2-5 Lk 7:11-17 (Ps Wk IV) “God has visited His people!” (Lk 7:16) The people exclaimed when they witnessed Jesus raising the only son…
Sts. Cornelius, Pope & Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs, pray for us24th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Monday 16th September 20241 Cor 11:17-26, 33; Ps 39:7-10, 17; Lk 7:1-10 (Ps Wk IV) God is immediately attentive to needs upon submission. The Capernaum encounter between Jesus, the representatives of the centurion and the crowds elicits a deeper…
What are the crosses, responsibilities I am invited to carry for others? 24th Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Sunday 15th September 2024Is 50:5-9; Ps 114:1-6, 8-9; Jm 2:14-18; Mk 8:27-35 (Ps Wk IV) “If anyone wants to be My disciple, they must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow Me” (Mk 8:34).…
THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS23rd Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Saturday 14th September 2024Num 21:4-9 or Phil 2:6-11; Ps 77:1-2, 34-38; Jn 3:13-17 (Psalter Proper) If our daily life is left unexamined, we often create negative energies around us. During their journey through the desert, the Israelites grumbled, complained, and spoke ill of…