Thursday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time The inner healing   A Pharisee invited him to dine with him …. Now there was a sinful woman in the city ….  Bringing an alabaster flask of ointment, she stood behind him at his feet weeping and… Read More »ENFL283

September 14, The Exaltation of the Holy Cross Jesus Christ’s attitude Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he… Read More »ENSM027

Monday of the Twenty-FourthWeek in Ordinary Time A prayer for the leaders First of all, then, I ask that supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for everyone, for kings and for all in authority, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in… Read More »ENFL279

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time The new life is born from the suffering  He began to teach them that the Son of Man  must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three… Read More »ENFS116

Thursday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time The source of the life     “But to you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. To the person who… Read More »ENFL276

Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time The Gospel is for the poor people My brothers, show no partiality as you adhere to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. For if a man with gold rings on his fingers and in fine clothes comes into… Read More »ENFS115

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Let talk about an educational method              He summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from… Read More »ENFS114