LENTEN OBSERVANCES Lent is described as a penitential season. A time we are called to return to the Lord by acts of repentance. In this season, we are called to do away...
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT,YR B Ex 20:1-3,7-8,12-17; Ps 18 1 Cor. 1:22-25; Jn 2: 13-25 RESTORING THE CHURCH On the first Sunday of Lent, we encountered Jesus in the desert...
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT Gen. 22:1-2,9-13,15-18; P116 Rom. 8:31-34; Mk 9:2-10 THE CHRISTIAN END GAME For the second Sunday of Lent the Church presents us with Mark’s...
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT, YR B Gen 9:8-15; Ps 25 1Pt 3:18-22; Mk 1:12-15 BECOMING A BETTER PERSON IN THE DESERT OF LENT After the baptism of Jesus, he was driven into the...
LENT: IN IMITATION OF JESUS It is a period of preparation for Easter. This period takes forty days of prayer, fasting and penitence. This is a very important season...
SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YR B Lev. 13:1-2;44-46; Ps 32 1 Cor. 10:31-11:1 Mk 1:40-45 HE TOUCHES OUR LEPROSY We continue to read Mark’s reports about the miracles of...
FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YR B Job 7:1-4,6-7; Ps 147 1Cor. 9:16-19;,22-23; Mk 1:20-39 JESUS HEALS US Today the fifth Sunday in ordinary time, we continue our reading...
FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YR B Deut 18:15-20; Ps 95 1Cor. 7:32-35; Mk1:21-28 JESUS, THE MAN OF ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY After proclaiming the Good News and calling four...
THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR B Jonah 3:1-5,10; P 25 1Cor 7:29-31; Mk 1:14-20 REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL When people get accustomed to hearing the same thing...
SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YR B 1 Sam. 3:3b-10,19; Ps 40 1Cor. 6:13c-15a,17-20; John 1:35-42 UNLOCKING THE CODE FOR INVITATION John the Baptist was with two of his...
THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD, YR B Is 55:1-11; Is 12 1 Jn 5:1-9; Mark 1:7-11 THE HEAVENS WERE TORN OPEN Today’s feast is a “bridge feast” because it brings the Christmas...
John the Baptist is the only saint, apart from the Lord Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose birth and death are celebrated on the church’s’ calendar. The accounts...
