Monday, August 18, 2025 Jud 2:11-19; Mt 19:16-22 Today’s Gospel highlights that true greatness results from greater sacrifices. We have a great lesson to learn from the example of the rich young man who wants to follow Jesus. In many ways, he represents us. To put it differently, we find ourselves in him. At first, […]
Sunday, August 17, 2025 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Jer 38:4-6, 8-10; Heb 12:1-4; Lk 12:49-53 The twentieth Sunday invites us to reflect on losing for God and gaining eternal life. Oftentimes, who we are is about the principles we have stood for in life. If commitments are the best ways to assess our moral
Saturday, August 16, 2025 Jos 24:14-29; Mt 19:13-15 Today’s Gospel highlights children as the worthy models of the Kingdom of Heaven. In the Gospel, while Jesus upholds and praises childlike virtues as the most desired for inheriting God’s Kingdom, his fondness and inclusion of children contain a liberative message too. In Jesus’ view, children are models of the
