Sunday, July 19, 2026 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Wis 12: 13, 16-19; Rom 8: 26-27; Mt 13: 24-43 The sixteenth Sunday in ordinary time invites us to remember our vulnerability and weakness in the face of God’s benevolence and holiness so that we grow more reliant on God to purify ourselves. The same idea […]
Saturday, July 18, 2026 Mic 2: 1-5; Mt 12:14-21 Today’s Gospel invites us to learn from Jesus the art of healing with love. It is shocking to read in the first verse about the plot by the Pharisees to kill Jesus. We must remember that the religious leaders so far accused or found fault with
Friday, July 17, 2026 Is 38: 1-6, 21-22, 7-8; Mt 12: 1-8 Today’s Gospel highlights the fact that an act of self-care is not a sinful act. The text presents the scene of the hungry disciples of Jesus walking through a field of grain and plucking some heads of grain and eating them. When the
