The Sower
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On the Gospel of Matthew 13:1-23
15th Sunday of Ordinary Time
In the middle of this Sunday’s Gospel we find Jesus quoting the following prophecy of Isaiah: ‘You will listen and listen again, but not understand, see and see again, but not perceive. For the heart of this nation has grown coarse, Their ears are dull of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, For fear they should see with their eyes, hear with their eyes, Understand with their heart, and be converted and be healed by me’.
The Path of Littleness
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On the Gospel of Matthew 11:25-30
14th Sunday of Ordinary Time
‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children’. What a strange thing for Jesus to say! Is he not insulting his followers by calling them ‘mere children’ and distinguishing between them and ‘the learned and the clever’? Does this mean that Christians have to be stupid and childish? What on earth do these words of Jesus mean?
God's Own Life
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On the Gospel of John 3:16-18
Trinity Sunday
Today the Church celebrates the feast of the Blessed Trinity- the most profound mystery of God's own intimate personal life- the Mystery of Mysteries! Why celebrate it today? The mystery of the Trinity is the very starting point of all God's revealed Truth- the origin too of all existence but crucially, as children of God, co-heirs and brothers and sisters of Christ, we too are called to share in God's own divine life!
The Feast of Corpus Christi (Jn. 6:51-58)
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The Feast of Corpus Christi invites us to meditate on the most precious gift that is given to us. Not a gift in the usual sense that one is given, but from the point of view that it is the gift of the invitation by God to full communion with Him. God invites us to become one with Him, as He becomes one with us, when we receive the Body and Blood of Christ: “he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him” (Jn. 6:56). This is a mystery that is beyond our full comprehension, and a reality that we cannot just simply pass by or skip over! It is the most important and beautiful reality on earth.
Receive the Holy Spirit
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