Friday, July 18, 2025 Ex 11:10-12:14; Mt 12:1-8 Today’s Gospel highlights humanism as the essence of religion. The Pharisees invoke the Sabbath law, which forbids work on that holy day, to accuse Jesus’ disciples as the hungry ones begin to pluck and eat heads of grain while passing through grainfields. Jesus confronts the Pharisees with […]
Thursday, July 17, 2025 Ex 3:13-20; Mt 11:28-30 Today’s Gospel highlights Jesus’ compassion toward the least in the society. Jesus’ compassionate statement contains three insights for our reflection. 1. Invitation to the Least: ‘Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened’ is an invitation not to the privileged and the rich but to the
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 Ex 2:1-15a; Mt 11:20-24 Today’s Gospel highlights the cry of a vulnerable God in Jesus over unrepentant cities. How can we understand today’s passage that contains Jesus’ ‘woe’ messages against cities like Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum? These three Jewish towns had the privilege of witnessing numerous miracles done by Jesus. However,
