Friday of Week 15 in Ordinary Time Isa 38:1-6,21-22,7-8Mt 12:1-8 The Pharisees noticed it and said to him: "Look, your disciples are doing something that is forbidden on the sabbath. But he said to them: "Have you not read what David did when he and his followers were hungry...?" The times we are living in... Continue Reading →
22 October, Sunday – Rendering to Caesar as a Form of Worship to God
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 45:1,4-61 Ths 1:1-5Mt 22:15-21 “...give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar -- and to God what belongs to God.” In today’s gospel, we read about the account of how the Pharisees went and plotted to entangle Jesus in his words. The entanglement being referred to in this instance... Continue Reading →
21 July, Friday – Spirit of the Law
Jul 21 – Memorial for St. Lawrence of Brindisi, priest, religious, doctor St. Lawrence (1559-1619) joined the Capuchin Friars in 1575. He studied theology, the Bible, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Syriac, and Hebrew. He was an effective and forceful preacher in any of his several languages, founded convents and wrote catechisms. As the chaplain of... Continue Reading →
4 June, Saturday — Our Lord Jesus Christ is God and His actions are immeasurable
Saturday of the 7th Week of Eastertide Acts 28:16-20,30-31Jn 21:20-25 There are many things that Jesus did; if all were written down, the world itself, I suppose, would not hold all the books that would have to be written. The Ten Commandments in the bible contain the summary of human laws -- commandments meant to... Continue Reading →
8 February, Tuesday – Laws and the Spirit
8 Feb – Memorial for St. Jerome Emiliani; Memorial for St. Josephine Bakhita, virgin St. Jerome (1481–1537) was born wealthy, the son of Angelo and Eleanor Mauroceni Emiliani. His father died when Jerome was a teenager, and he ran away from home at age 15. After a dissolute youth, he became a soldier in Venice... Continue Reading →
14 October, Thursday — The True Value of the Law
Oct 14 – Memorial for St. Callistus I, Pope and Martyr St. Callistus (d. 223) was born a slave, owned by Carpophorus, a Christian in the household of Caesar. His master entrusted a large sum to Callistus to open a bank, which took in several deposits, made several loans to people who refused to pay... Continue Reading →
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