Monday, August 26, 2024 2 Thes 1:1-5,11-12; Mt 23:13-22 Today’s Gospel calls for Christian excellence in word and life. Just as Jesus inaugurated his public teaching by pronouncing eight benedictions in the sermon on the mount, he closed his ministry by prophesying eight woes on the perverse Pharisees. The first woe condemns the fact that […]
Sunday, August 25, 2024 Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Jos 24:1-2,15-17,18; Eph 5:21-32; Jn 6:60-69 The twenty-first week invites us to ask if our allegiance is to the Lord. The readings challenge the taken-for-granted assumptions about our faith and compel a reflection on our faith as a commitment and allegiance to the Lord. In the first
Saturday, August 24, 2024 Feast of Bartholomew, Apostle Rv 21:9-14; Jn 1: 45-51 Today we celebrate the feast of St. Bartholomew, who is also known as Nathanael, as referred to in today’s Gospel. We are intrigued by Jesus’ description of Nathanael upon seeing him. Jesus praises Nathanael as ‘The true child of Israel, in whom there
