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  • 03:32, 13 October 2023Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[6,847 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Clothe Ourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ '''Jesus lets us know that God calls us all to his kingdom. Besides, Jesus shows us how to clothe ourselves with him, so we may be of those whom God chooses.''' Today’s parable makes clear that those who accept God’s call to his kingdom must clothe themselves in a proper way. The right garb is crucial; it sets the few who are chosen apart from the many who are called. It is clear, too, that “many” means “all....")
  • 17:24, 5 October 2023Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[7,095 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Dare the Wise and Learned to Be Truthful '''Jesus is the sign of contradiction. He brings to light what we harbor in our hearts. He cannot but dare us to be truthful.''' Jesus does not fail to dare the wise and the learned to choose the good that they learn and receive. That is to say, he asks them to act as they know better. And the wise and the learned are the chief priests and elders of the people, the scribes and the Pharisees. He puts them on the spot and...")
  • 21:25, 29 September 2023Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[8,720 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Doubt the Quick “Yes” that We Say '''Jesus is the firstborn from among those who [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3%3A21&version=NRSVCE do what is true and come to the light, so that there is no doubt that their works are just].''' No doubt, we have [https://famvin.org/en/2023/09/24/commit-to-the-poor-of-flesh-and-blood/ to love in deed and truth]. The second son in the parable says “yes,” but he does not do what the father asks. No work...")
  • 05:20, 26 September 2023Solemnity of St. Vincent de Paul 2023 (hist | edit) ‎[7,676 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Commit to the Poor of Flesh and Blood '''Jesus goes about doing good; he loves in deed and truth. He does not just commit to an ideology. St. Vincent is like him.''' St. Vincent wants those who follow him to commit with zeal to those who are poor ([https://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=vincentian_ebooks SV.FR XI]:133-137). And it seems that he himself cannot but commit to them. For he tells those who follow him: “As for me, n...")
  • 00:50, 20 September 2023Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[7,486 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Admire the Thoughts and Ways of God '''Jesus makes known to us God, who is good to all and has mercy on all he has made, and whose thoughts and ways we are to admire.''' The landowner is good to the jobless. But there are those who, rather than admire him, grumble. These are the ones who have worked for twelve hours. For they get the same pay as those who have worked for just an hour. And, for sure, not a few of us go along with those who grumble. For we humans...")
  • 05:13, 13 September 2023Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[7,689 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Reach by Grace the Unreachable Star '''Jesus is not of the world. Nor are his true disciples. They get to reach what we who are humans find hard to reach.''' There is no doubt that the way Jesus teaches is not the same as others’ way. For [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+1%3A22&version=NRSVCE he teaches with authority, not as the scribes]. Also, there is such a radical meaning in what he teaches that it turns things upside down. And that is...")
  • 21:35, 6 September 2023Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[5,161 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Gather Together Two or Three in Jesus’ Name '''Jesus is always in his Church. Yes, he is in the midst of those who gather together in his name by the initiative of Providence.''' Jesus wants us disciples to know that we shall receive for sure what we pray for, but on one condition: we will have to agree on what to pray for. And he is the one that makes effective our coming to agree on what to ask for. For where two or three gather together in his name, there h...")
  • 20:31, 1 September 2023Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[6,728 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Deny Themselves, Bear Their Own Cross, Follow Christ '''Jesus is all things to all. He leads those who live for others and deny themselves. For they do not seek their own good, but the neighbor’s.''' Peter is blessed. For in the first place, the Father, not flesh and blood, lets him know who Jesus is. In the second place, he will be the rock upon which Jesus will build his Church. But the blessed soon turns into a stumbling block. And he and the other discip...")
  • 22:25, 23 August 2023Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[7,392 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''All Things to All so as to Save All '''Jesus, is the Teacher that shows us by words and by works what it means to become all things to all for the sake of God’s kingdom.''' Jesus asks his disciples, “And you, who do you say that I am?” It is the number one question for all time about him ([https://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=maloney ''TWVDP''] 22). And, of course, answers vary, which seems to turn him into all things to al...")
  • 06:05, 16 August 2023Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[7,011 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Foreigners No Longer, But Citizens Rather '''[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2%3A14&version=NRSVCE Jesus, our peace, makes one the Jews and those who are not Jews, the foreigners. He tears down, through the cross, the wall of hate that separates them].''' A few Jewish Christians, it seems, do not think that the Good News of Jesus is for foreigners. For those of the circumcision party tells Peter to his face in an accusing way: “[https://...")
  • 19:55, 9 August 2023Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[6,060 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Win with the Victorious over the World '''Jesus has overcome the world. That is why those who put their faith and trust in him cannot but win in face of trials, woes, doubts.''' It seems that it would not be hard for the early Church to win over others. For [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+5%3A13-14&version=NRSVCEo others spoke highly of the Christians and joined them in great numbers]. Yet the truth is that it has not always been smooth sailing...")
  • 20:14, 2 August 2023Transfiguration of the Lord, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[8,308 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''God-with-us in Our Joys and Our Griefs Jesus, God-with-us, is the first of the brothers and sisters who rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. There is a [https://religionnews.com/2023/07/27/as-organized-religion-falters-the-devil-falls-on-hard-times/ report] that fewer folks in the U.S. believe in God and, one can guess, in God-with-us. For the number of believers in the U.S. is down to 58% from 68%, in 2001. Would it be out of place to ask...")
  • 19:28, 25 July 2023Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[7,331 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Supreme Value of the Kingdom of God '''On top of being the scribe who is trained in the kingdom of heaven, Jesus embodies also the supreme value that this kingdom is.''' The teaching is clear that the kingdom of heaven is the supreme value. For there is this saying: “[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6%3A33&version=RSVCE Seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things will be yours besides].” And the parables of the bur...")
  • 21:01, 19 July 2023Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[7,454 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Rush to Condemn and to Exclude '''Lowly, meek and patient, Jesus bears with the weak and annoying. We learn from him to bear with one another and not rush to judge.''' A church lector tells another church lector that he would love to be heaven’s gatekeeper. That is to say, to be the one separating one from another those at the gate seeking to get in. He would place the politicians from the Republican party on his right and those of the Democratic party on his l...")
  • 02:03, 16 July 2023Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[5,920 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Optimists, for They Rely on the Word '''Jesus is at once the Good News of the kingdom and he that preaches it. He wants us to be optimists, preaching with him bountifully, not sparingly.''' We can say that today’s three readings invite us to be optimists. The first gives hope and comfort to those of God’s chosen people who live in exile in Babylon. They have reason, that is to say, to be optimists due to God’s word that creates and bears much fruit. The s...")
  • 02:02, 5 July 2023Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[6,249 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Yoke That Is Easy, Burden That Is Light '''Jesus soothes those who are weary and carry heavy burden. To take his yoke and learn from him is to know the Father and find rest and ease.''' In wonder, Jesus thanks the Father. For, though Lord of heaven and earth, the Father favors with revelation the little folks. He does not despise them as the wise and the learned do. These put also on others the yoke of the law. That is to say, [https://www.biblegateway.com/pass...")
  • 03:37, 30 June 2023Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[5,369 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Paradoxes: Signs of the New Creation '''Jesus brings in the new creation. The paradoxes that he lives and teaches let us know what the new creation means.''' Jesus uses hard sayings and paradoxes to announce the Good News. And there are, in today’s gospel, examples of these hard sayings and paradoxes. For sure, Jesus [https://cmglobal.org/vincentiana/cgi-bin/library.cgi?e=q-00000-00---off-0vincenti--00-0----0-10-0---0---0direct-10---4-----dtx--0-1l--11-en-50--...")
  • 00:45, 22 June 2023Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[5,801 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Fears the Sent Ones Must Overcome '''Jesus comes to his own people and they persecute him. His fate is the fate, too, of his disciples. They waver, then, due to their fears.''' Jesus senses the fears that his apostles harbor. These are the twelve disciples he sends to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And their fears are not groundless. After all, he has just told the Twelve of the [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10%3A16-24&version=NR...")
  • 05:56, 19 June 2023Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 (hist | edit) ‎[5,081 bytes]Ross (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Sheep Who Do Not Have a Shepherd '''Jesus, the Good Shepherd, seeks the good of the sheep. He is not like those who steal, slaughter and destroy as they seek their own good.''' Jesus has compassion for the crowds, for they are troubled and abandoned like sheep that have no shepherd. A circumstance, then, triggers his compassion. That is to say, he does not seek to help humanity, abstract, far, universal, but concrete folks, near, particular He focuses, yes, on t...")