A Vincentian reading of the Sunday readings
Vanity of Vanities, All Is Vanity
by Ross Dizon | July 26, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Steadfast in their Prayers, and Trusting
by Ross Dizon | July 19, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment
Host to Jesus, the Word Made Flesh
by Ross Dizon | July 12, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Roundabout Ways We Take to Get Our Way
by Ross Dizon | July 5, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
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Delight the Earth and Enlighten the World
by Ross Dizon | Jan 31, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the great light that shines on those who walk in the dark. He is the delight of those who live in the land...
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Approach Jesus Christ with All Our Being
by Ross Dizon | Jan 24, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the Son through whom God has spoken to us humans in these last days. We Christians are to approach and hear...
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Preach the Good News to the Poor
by Ross Dizon | Jan 17, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the one the Lord God has anointed with the Holy Spirit and has sent to preach the Good News to the poor. In...
Strength of the Weak and Fearful
by Ross Dizon | Dec 27, 2019 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus himself is the proof that strength, becomes perfect in weakness. Christians, then, cannot but be weak, and so, strong (2 Cor 12, 9-10). Matthew, more than the other evangelists, speaks of the words of Scriptures reaching their fulfillment in Jesus. He portrays...
Greatness Really Means Littleness
by Ross Dizon | Dec 24, 2019 | Formation, Reflections
Although great, Jesus becomes little for our sake. As we associate, as Jesus, with the little folks, we grasp the meaning of Christmas that greatness lies in littleness. In the beginning is the Word, the Word is with God, and is God. All things come to be through him,...
Help from the Always Faithful and True
by Ross Dizon | Dec 17, 2019 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus Christ, our Savior, is Emmanuel, “God-with-us.” In him and through him, God goes with us and gives us the help that we need. Ahaz, the king of Judah, fears the combined armies of Syria and Israel. And yet he turns down God’s offer of help, for he refuses to do...
Proof of Our Really Belonging to Jesus
by Ross Dizon | Dec 10, 2019 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus brings the Good News to the poor and makes it come true for them. Doing as our Master, we give proof that we are his followers. Last Sunday, we heard John the Baptist rebuke those he called “brood of vipers.” He asked them to bear good fruit as proof of their...
Out of Cycle, the Usual, the Customary
by Ross Dizon | Dec 3, 2019 | Formation, Reflections
In the person of Jesus is revealed that God’s love prevails in the end (Advent 2002). Christians, then, cannot but break out of the cycle of hopelessness. For those who have a cyclical view of time, events simply come back. Nothing new comes out of the cycle. No new...
Forward March towards Our Lord Jesus
by Ross Dizon | Nov 26, 2019 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus Christ is the leader and perfecter of faith. Fixing our eyes on him, we go forward with firm decision to reach what lies ahead. St. Paul says that “our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.” The saying shows that, for him, time moves forward. That...
Discern and Welcome Christ’s Kingship
by Ross Dizon | Nov 19, 2019 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus has come to serve and give his life as a ransom for all. Those who belong to him discern and welcome his kingship. The inscription on the cross proclaims Jesus as the king of the Jews. And it is the truth: he is the king of the Jews and of the universe. But who...
Overcome through Him Who Loves Us
by Ross Dizon | Nov 12, 2019 | Formation, Reflections
Christ Jesus fully reveals the love of God. And since no one and nothing at all can separate us from this love, we more than overcome. Does not the reality or possibility of natural disasters and social unrests frighten us? Do we, then, not wonder if we could save our...
Alive by God’s Love in Christ Jesus
by Ross Dizon | Nov 5, 2019 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the last and surest proof that God loves us. Because of this love, God is not the God of the dead, but of the living; all are alive for him. The Sadducees deny that there is a resurrection or that the dead can be alive again because of it. So, with their...