No one to stone first
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In the incident of the adulterous woman if at all there were to be just one to throw first there would have been many to follow and she would have been killed. All in the crowd would have joined in the communal act of killing. Even the listeners of Jesus in the temple, the so-call good people, good […]
Coming to Self
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The one great thing that happened to the second son of the “prodigal” father was that he came to himself. Coming back to the self is the beginning of any conversion. Humans are the only ones in the biological kingdom with the capacity for reflection that is, looking back to one’s own self. Though every one of this […]
Founts of Living Water
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There are two sets of readings today, one the regular and the other for the Christian Initiation. Time, water and caring are the running themes when both these are taken together. On the mountain the encounter of Moses with God in the burning bush was the intervention of God in time to take care of his people […]
Heaven reaches to Earth
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Mountains are most often the meeting place of the Divine and the human. In the event of the transfiguration Jesus takes the three disciples with him to the top, leaving the others at the foot of the mountain. Were they the privileged ones? Apparently it seems so. They saw Jesus in His great glory and were enveloped […]
Living by the Word
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Deuteronomy today reminds us that what we give to God is made out from what God had given us. Hence it is God’s due and our obligation. This text also confirms God’s total care for us. The Word of God reminds us of these. St. Paul today reminds us that the Word is near to us, on our […]
The Carpenter and the Net!
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In contrast to last week’s rejection of the astounding ‘Word’ because of the family of origin, today we find an acceptance of the same Word, though with much reluctance, and consequently the astonishing and stupefying results, the miraculous catch! Simon and his company, who knew the sea much better than a carpenter’s son, toiled the whole night with absolutely […]
Are we part of them?
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Jesus experiences the first open rejection from his own town and from his own people! They were definitely astounded by the words he spoke, but they were not impressed by the family from which Jesus came. What a strange reason? Or better put, how “unreasonable” they were? Is there any reflection of such happening […]
Jesus in his task
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Last week we saw the fountain of Divine Mercy started flowing. This week Jesus is asserting that His mission is to let God’s Mercy flow continuously and without stop. We today are witnesses to the world to that flow and that is why we are here together. In the first reading we hear from the book of Nehemiah […]
Fountain Gate of Divine Mercy
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Another incident of the Epiphany, the manifestation of God, is today’s highlight, the wedding accompanied by the panic and the prompting to begin! Isaiah and St. Paul to the Corinthians make the background preparations. Isaiah comforts us telling us to abandon the feeling of being forsaken and to feel that God is delighted in us or we are the Delight of […]
CONFIRMATION ON EPIPHANY
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Last Sunday we celebrated the Epiphany of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah. Today we are invited to celebrate the Epiphany of the Holy Trinity. In the baptism of our Lord Jesus that is what happened. In fact, in our own baptism, and when we baptize a child, exactly the same is happening. Just like the […]
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