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
Friday, August 15, 2025 Solemnity of the Assumption Rev 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; 1 Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 The Feast of the Assumption invites us to imitate Mother Mary’s faithfulness and dedication to the cause of God. On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII, in his Munificentissimus Deus, wrote that ‘We pronounce, declare, and define it to be
