22nd SUNDAY B, 2021
GOD’S LAW COMES FIRST Deut 4:1-2,6-8; Jas 1:17-18,21-22,27; Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21-23 After meditating for five Sundays on the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel, we now go back to the gospel of […]
GOD’S LAW COMES FIRST Deut 4:1-2,6-8; Jas 1:17-18,21-22,27; Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21-23 After meditating for five Sundays on the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel, we now go back to the gospel of […]
THE CHOICES BEFORE US Jos 24:1-2, 15-17, 18; Eph 5:21-32; John 6:60-69 Today’s gospel passage brings the sixth chapter of John’s gospel to a climactic conclusion. Jesus has fed a […]
THE REAL PRESENCE OF JESUS IN EUCHARIST Prov 9:1-6; Eph 5:15-20; John 6:51-58 The eight verses that constitute today’s gospel reading (Jn 6:51-58) represent the climax of the lengthy “Bread […]
ALL GENERATIONS WILL CALL ME BLESSED Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; 1Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 Every 15th August, Catholics all over the world join to celebrate the solemnity of the […]
JESUS IS THE BREAD FROM HEAVEN 1 Kings 19:4-8; Ephesians 4:30-5:2; and John 6:41-51 Today, the 19th Sunday of the Year B, we take the third of five homilies on […]
THE BREAD OF LIFE Ex 16:2-4,12-15; Eph 4:17,20-24; John 6:24-35 Last Sunday, we began five weeks of Gospels from the sixth chapter of John. This long chapter of 69 verses […]
GOD PROVIDES MORE THAN WE COULD EVER IMAGINE 2Kings 4:42-44; Eph 4:1-6; John 6:1-15 In the first reading and in the Gospel of today, we hear of two instances where […]
THE COMPASSIONATE JESUS Jer. 23:1-6; Eph 2:13-18; Mk 6:30-34 The gospel text of today presents us to an understanding of the God that Christians worship. Jesus is portrayed as the […]
THE MISSIONARY CODE OF CONDUCT Amos 7:12-15; Eph 1:3-14; Mark 6:7-13 Having prepared his disciples by letting them witness his miracles and learning from preaching, as we heard in the […]
“FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT” Ez. 2:2-5; 2Cor 12:7-10; Mark 6:1-6 The Gospel of today follows immediately upon last week’s stories of the raising of Jairus’ daughter and the healing of the […]