Wednesday, August 26, 2026 2 Thess 3: 6-10, 16-18; Mt 23: 27-32 Today’s Gospel continues yesterday’s discussion on religious hypocrisy. Today, Jesus accuses the scribes and Pharisees of their double-dealing behaviour. Like the whitewashed tomb that only housed the bones of the dead and every kind of filth, they had no problem pretending to be who […]
Tuesday, August 25, 2026 2 Thes 2:1-3a, 14-17; Mt 23: 23-26 Today’s Gospel invites us to focus on the ‘weightier things of God’s law.’ Matthew 23 deals with a series of ‘eight’ woes (including verse 14 as opposed to the ‘Seven-Woe-View’ that skips verse 14) that serve as the antithesis of the eight beatitudes that
Monday, August 24, 2026 Feast of St. Bartholomew, Apostle Rev 21:9b-14; Jn 1: 45-51 The Feast of St. Bartholomew invites us to blend our faith and knowledge in humility. It is good to remember that St. Bartholomew, the sixth of the twelve apostles named by Jesus, is also referred to as Nathanael, whom Apostle Philip
