Did I hear you complain about the journey already and we have just barely started? Excuse me! Were you expecting a smooth and easy ride? You must be dreaming. Don’t you know that the enemy of your glory will never allow that. Have you forgotten its agenda so soon – “to deceive, to steal and … [Read more…]
First Sunday of Lent, Year A,March 05, 2017 1st Reading: Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7 The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being.Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and placed there … [Read more…]
Saturday after Ash Wednesday, March 04, 2017. 1st Reading: Isaiah 58:9b-14 Thus says the LORD: If you remove from your midst oppression,false accusation and malicious speech;If you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; Then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like midday; … [Read more…]
“I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance” Lk. 5:32. “…tear your heart and not your garments” Joel 2:13. Kindness is a thing of the heart and not the hand. So are you weak enough to show a little act of kindness not out of compulsion but freely from the heart? … [Read more…]
Friday after Ash Wednesday,March 3, 2017 1st Reading: Book of Isaiah 58:1-9a. Thus says the Lord GOD: Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; Tell my people their wickedness, and the house of Jacob their sins. They seek me day after day, and desire to know my ways, Like … [Read more…]