Jesus shows us how to love in truth God and our neighbor. Out of love for them, he has to sweat blood and give...
A Vincentian reading of the Sunday readings
Reflect the Creator and Owner of All
Jesus is the image of the God whom no one has ever seen. Hence, he cannot but reflect God who is merciful, kind, and...
Clothe Ourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ
Today’s parable makes clear that those who accept God’s call to his kingdom must clothe themselves appropriately.
Money That Is Not Deemed Righteous
Jesus teaches us to worship the Father in Spirit and truth. He also warns us that we cannot serve God and money. Jesus frets till he serves to the utmost and gives up his body and sheds his blood to save us. Those who trample on the poor, on the other hand, fret...
Bother Those of Strict Observance
Jesus shows us God who is rich in mercy. He welcomes sinners and eats with them. This does bother not a few folks. Maybe the Pharisees and the scribes think Jesus likes to bother them since they are the guardians of the law. For he stands up to them when they tell...
Followers of Jesus, Thinking, Wise
Jesus embodies what he teaches on being thoughtful and purposeful. He asks all his followers to be so, and thus the success of the cross will be theirs. Great crowds go with Jesus on the way to Jerusalem (see Lk 9, 51; 13, 22). He turns and tells them that to be his...
Lowliness, Simplicity, Truth and Freedom
Jesus is the poorest of the poor on whom God looks with favor due to the simplicity, lowliness and awe of him that they show. Does it bother Jesus that his fellow guests, leading Pharisees, and maybe the host, too, watch him closely? If he shows that it does, it may...
Meal of Salvation, Meal of Judgment
Jesus is the meal to which we are all invited, so that we may not perish but have eternal life. Do we come to it wearing the proper attire? To enter God’s kingdom, it is not enough to be in a meal with Jesus, once, twice or more. He says so as he answers one who...
Burn with Zeal for the Kingdom of God
Jesus cannot but burn with zeal for God’s kingdom. For he has come to proclaim it, to bring it in, and to bring it about to the full. In many places, trees, houses and other things burn in fires. We are sorry, of course, for the deaths, losses and harm that fires...
Alert to the Dangers the World Poses
Jesus is the cry that seek to alert us of the risks that we run. For we live in a world that fosters individualism and hoarding. Not a few of Jesus’ teachings, the paradoxes in particular, raise eyebrows and puzzle. Through them, he holds those who hear him...
Vanity of Vanities, All Is Vanity
Jesus is clear-headedness in person. He brings to light the vanity, the emptiness, of the life of those who love and serve money. Jesus grants and does not grant what a man who feels disinherited asks him to do. For, in the first place, the Teacher says “no.” He...
Steadfast in their Prayers, and Trusting
Jesus is the reason why God does not hold back from those who are steadfast in their prayers the blessings they ask for with trust. The teaching today is that we should be steadfast in our prayers. And it seems that what is good about being steadfast is that we annoy...
