The coming back of the people of Israel from Babylonian exile was not all that very easy. After 70 years outside one’s own land, coming back to it, the people seemed like foreigners in their own land. Hence, they came back without knowing again whom they were and what made them a people. They had no king, nor […]
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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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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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32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time[Fr. Chukwuezugo Nnamah]First Reading: 2 Maccabees 7:1-2,9-14; Second Reading: 2 Thess 2:16-3:5;Gospel: Luke 20:27-38 MY VALUES, MY LIFE.The first reading today presents us a story of seven brothers with their mother from the second book of Maccabees. (We remember that 1st and 2nd Maccabees are among the seven Deutero-canonical books i.e.
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