Tuesday, September 2, 2025 1 Thess 5:1-6, 9-11; Lk 4:31-37 Today’s Gospel highlights Jesus’ authority through his preaching and healing ministry, though his audience proves unresponsive to the manifestation of the divine authority in him. The text demonstrates Jesus’ mission on the one hand and the crowd’s reaction on the other. 1. Power That Heals: If […]
Monday, September 1, 2025 1 Thess 4:13-18; Lk 4:16-30 Today’s Gospel invites us to be heralds of Divine healing. In the Gospel, we find Jesus making a return to his hometown of Nazareth. At the synagogue, Jesus finds himself surrounded by familiar faces, family, and friends. Though the setting looks friendly at the beginning, very
Saturday, August 30, 2025 1 Thess 4:9-11; Mt 25:14-30 Today’s Gospel invites us to grow in our faithfulness through the parable of the talents. The Gospel begins with the master distributing talents (a talent was roughly the wages of twenty years for a laborer!) to each of his three servants ‘according to his ability.’ Thus,
