Sunday, September 17, 2023 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Sir 27:30-28:7; Rom 14; 7-9; Mt 18:21-35 The twenty-fourth Sunday in ordinary time invites us to practice forgiveness as a distinctive virtue of being Christians. The first reading warns us against anger and calls us to forgive. In anger, we not only neglect our responsibility to be […]
Saturday, September 16, 2023 1 Tim 1:15-17; Lk 6:43-49 Today’s gospel helps us decode discipleship through two words. 1. Inevitability: Making use of the image of trees and fruits, Jesus helps us understand that as humans, we always bear fruit, either as a good tree or as a rotten tree. When bearing fruit is thus
Friday, September 15, 2023 Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows Heb 5:7-9; Jn 19:25-27 or Lk 2:33-35 The Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows invites us to understand the truth that there was a close connection between Jesus’ passion and Mary’s sorrows and that the mother of the ‘suffering servant’ equally suffered as well. That
