Acts 2:14,22-33; Psa 15(16):1-2,5,7-11; 1 Pet 1:17-21; Lk 24:13-35 What do you do when you find yourself in a difficult and incomprehensible situation? When things become too confusing, when all of a sudden, the joy and hope of a good life vanishes like a smoke, what do you do? When the things you so much […]
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(GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY) Acts 2:14,36-41; Psa 22(23); 1 Pet 2:20-25; Jn 10:1-10 Theme: The Voice of the Shepherd and the Ears of the Sheep The picture Jesus creates in the gospel reading of today shows the culture of the Palestinian world of his time which is still obtainable in some parts of the world. At
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Acts 6:1-7; Psa 32(33):1-2,4-5,18-19; 1 Pet 2:4-9; Jn 14:1-12 Theme: Discrimination and Favoritism Among the ‘Saints’ The first reading presents us with the first recorded problem in the early Christian community. The problem of discrimination and favoritism. How can we understand the apparent contradiction between the descriptions of the life within the early Christian community
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Theme: WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT, WE ARE ORPHANS Acts 8:5-8,14-17; Psa 65(66):1-7,16,20; 1 Pet 3:15-18; Jn 14:15-21Chapter Fourteen of John’s Gospel is ladened with a farewell and consolatory discourse of Jesus to his disciples. He has been with them throughout his earthly mission, now, he is about to go back to the Father through his
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Acts 1:12-14; Ps. 26(27):1,4,7-8; 1 Pet 4:13-16; Jn 17:1-11 Towards the end of his earthly life, as we see in today’s gospel reading, Jesus evaluates himself before the One who sent him, and based on his fulfilment of his mission, he requests the Father who sent him to now glorify him. He says: “I have
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Rom 6:3-11; Matt 28:1-10 THEME: THE RESURRECTION OF MAN’S HOPE What is Man’s greatest Fear? Many people have considered death as man’s greatest fear. However, Psychology has proven this to be a half truth. Deep inside every man, is this fear, not so much of death, but of what happens to man in death. It
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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