Monday, November 3, 2025 Rom 11: 29-36; Lk 14: 12-14 Today’s Gospel highlights some radical insights on Christian hospitality. In his teaching, Jesus redefines hospitality by challenging the conventional notion that it is founded on mutual exchange. For Jesus, the conventional type of hospitality is reductive in outlook, as it narrows down hospitality to a […]
Sunday, November 2, 2025 All Souls’ Day! Wis 3:1-9; Rom 5:5-11; Jn 6:37-40 Today, we join the Universal Church to pray for all the faithful departed for their eternal rest. But the day reminds us that praying for them is not the only way we remember them. From a person we learn two things: how
Saturday, November 1, 2025 Solemnity of All Saints! Rev 7:2-4, 9-14; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12a The Solemnity of All Saints invites us to live like those saints we admire and whose intercession we seek. I wonder if there is any grammar that defines who a saint is. While a theoretical definition may look abstract,
