Reflection on Lk 19:1-10This passage presents us the character of Zacchaeus. The name “Zacchaeus” in Hebrew means “pure or righteous one”. Luke tells us that this man called Zacchaeus was a chief toll/tax collector. The tax collectors were seen as sinners, avoided, and dreaded by the people in the time of Jesus because, working for […]
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Theme: WE CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT We celebrate today the coming of the Holy Spirit on the apostles. In the gospel of last two Sundays, we hear Jesus promising his disciples that he will not leave them orphans (Jn 14:18), but that he will send them another Advocate. Today, we celebrate the fulfilment
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Ex 12:1-8,11-14; Ps 115(116):12-13,15-18; 1 Cor 11:23-26; Jn 13:1-15 THEME: No Service Without Self Emptying and Denial. From chapter 12:44 to chapter 18 where Jesus is betrayed and arrested, St. John shows Jesus approaching his last earthly days with his disciples. Hence, Jesus, now alone with the disciples, tries to give them the summary and
Acts 10:34,37-43; Ps 117(118):1-2,16-17,22-23; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 THEME: You Need to Grow Up in Faith!!! “Do you realize that you are a senior student now?” “Why do you still behave as if you are a junior student?” “Come on man! You should behave more maturely; you are no longer a boy.” These and many similar expressions
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Isa 52:13-53:12; Ps 30(31):2,6,12-13,15-17,25; Heb 4:14-16,5:7-9; Jn 18:1-19:42 Theme: Who are you looking for? At this end of Jesus’ life, it is important to see him asking the same question with which he started his earthly encounter as recorded by John. In Jn 1:38, when the two disciples of John were following Jesus, he turned
Isa 50:4-7; Psa 21(22):8-9,17-20,23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Matt 26:14-27:66 The Passion Sunday launches us into the holiest and most important week of Church’s life. It begins the deepest moment of reflection, commemoration and the celebration of God who suffered for humankind. It gives us the particular opportunity to reflect on what God did for humankind and
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The Trinitarian doctrine is a mystery and uneasy to comprehend because it is something beyond man’s nature and principles. In man’s calculation, it is either something is one or that it is two, somethingcannot be one and at the same time more than one. Many theologians in the past (e.g Arius) tried to simplify this
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In the gospel today, the angel told the shepherds that the birth of Jesus brings great joy to all people. The question is “what is this great joy?” It is the joy that we now have Emmanuel which means “God is with us”. And when God is in our midst, it means that we live
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time1 Kgs 19:9,11-13; Ps 84(85):9-14; Rom 9:1-5; Matt 14:22-23 Theme: Be Calm, the Still Voice Comes after the Storm a. On our way to encounter the Lord The first reading and the gospel present us with two figures who were on their way to meet with the Lord. Elijah was asked
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Is 52:7-10; Heb 1:1-6; Jn 1:1-18 In the gospel, John presents us with two themes: the Word of God that has come to live with us; and what should be our attitude. After God has delivered the people of Israel from Egypt, in order to take them to the land promised to their ancestors, he
