Friday, February 14, 2025 Gen 3:1-8; Mk 7:31-37 Today’s Gospel highlights the need for open hearts. The text presents the healing account of a deaf man by Jesus. Like any disability, deafness comes with its pack of difficulties and disadvantages. Being deaf means going through shame and ridicule without possibly knowing it, though it is […]
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Gen 2:4-9, 15-17; Mk 7:14-23 Today’s Gospel highlights the heart, not the body, as the realm of morality. When Jesus says that ‘nothing that enters one from outside can defile a person,’ he revokes the Old Testament laws dealing with ritual impurity and food. In simpler terms, Jesus means that food
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes Is 66:10-14; Jn 2:1-11 Today we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Our Lady of Lourdes is a title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary, recalling her apparitions in 1958 at the grotto in Lourdes, France, to Saint Bernadette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl.
