Saturday, September 16, 2023 1 Tim 1:15-17; Lk 6:43-49 Today’s gospel helps us decode discipleship through two words. 1. Inevitability: Making use of the image of trees and fruits, Jesus helps us understand that as humans, we always bear fruit, either as a good tree or as a rotten tree. When bearing fruit is thus […]
Friday, September 15, 2023 Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows Heb 5:7-9; Jn 19:25-27 or Lk 2:33-35 The Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows invites us to understand the truth that there was a close connection between Jesus’ passion and Mary’s sorrows and that the mother of the ‘suffering servant’ equally suffered as well. That
Thursday, September 14, 2023 Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Nm 21:4-9; Phil 2:6-11; Jn 3:13-17 St. Bonaventure asked St. Thomas Aquinas, ‘What is the secret of your learning? What is your book of wisdom?’ The great saint turned to a crucifix that stood between him and the light and said, pointing reverently
