Wednesday, July 17, 2024 Is 10:5-7,13-16; Mt 11:25-27 Today’s Gospel highlights the need for humility and surrender to inherit the knowledge of spiritual truths. Jesus makes two things clear in the passage. 1.Jesus reflects the wisdom of God, and therefore, the transmission of divine wisdom is very personal and immediate, unlike the Pharisees, whose inheritance […]
Monday, July 15, 2024 Is 1:10-17; Mt 10:34-11:1 Today’s Gospel is a lesson on Christian loyalty. We understand Jesus’ teaching on loyalty in three ways. 1.Following Jesus means to sacrifice family ties if the latter becomes an obstacle to discipleship. Jesus cautions us that our love for him will put us in tension with those
Sunday, July 14, 2024 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Am 7:12-15; Eph 1:3-14; Mk 6:7-13 The fifteenth Sunday invites us to reflect on our Christian vocation and our response to it. The readings of the day center around the theme of vocation and show how God has willed it for the good of humanity through
