Jesus is the only Son who is in the bosom of the Father. Through him, we are children by adoption, and so we cry,...
Ross Dizon
Worshipers of the Father in Spirit and Truth
Jesus embodies what to worship the Father in Spirit and truth means. Hence, we Christians are to be such worshipers....
Noise, Driving Wind, Tongues of Fire
Jesus sends us the Holy Spirit that comes from the Father (Jn 15, 26). And not to have this Spirit is not to belong...
Your mission, should you accept it …
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), July 12, 2015 – Am 7, 12-15; Eph 1, 3-14; Mk 6, 7-13 Sealed in Christ with the Holy Spirit (Eph 1, 13) Jesus seeks first the kingdom and righteousness of God. His disciples prove themselves by doing the same. The first disciples...
Still a stranger?
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), July 5, 2015 – Ez 2, 2-5; 2 Cor 12, 7-10; Mk 6, 1-6 When I am weak, then I am strong (2 Cor 12, 10) Jesus came to his own people, but they did not accept him. Is he not a stranger to us who claim to be his own? God reveals to...
Life insurance
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), June 28, 2015 – Wis 1, 13-15; 2, 23-24; 2 Cor 8, 7. 8. 13-15; Mk 5, 21-43 For your sake he became poor (2 Cor 8, 9) Death no longer has power over Christ. Does it still have power over us who have been baptized into his death...
Sleeping soundly
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), June 21, 2015 – Job 38, 1. 8-11; 2 Cor 5, 14-17; Mk 4, 35-41 Whoever is in Christ is a new creation (2 Cor 5, 17) Those who are truly new in Christ do not lose sleep even over life’s most violent storms. They put their trust in...
Bit by bit
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), June 14, 2015 – Ez 17, 22-24; 2 Cor 5, 6-10; Mk 4, 26-34 We are always confident (2 Cor 5, 6) Jesus wants his little flock to trust always in the Lord. We humans are easily impressed by outward appearance: lofty stature, imposing...
Inventive love blooming where it is planted
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (B), June 7, 2015 – Ex 24, 3-8; Heb 9, 11-15; Mk 14, 12-16. 22-26 He is mediator of a new covenant (Heb 9, 15) To belong to the new covenant is to draw our life from Jesus’ love and to live loving as he did. Since Jesus shed his...
Outward-moving
Most Holy Trinity (B), May 31, 2015 – Dt 4, 32-34. 39-40; Rom 8, 14-17; Mt 28, 16-20 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit (Mt 28, 19) God’s overflowing love reaches us human beings so that may be, in the Son and by the working of the Holy...
Breathing our first at last
Pentecost Sunday (B), May 24, 2015 – Acts 2, 1-11; 1 Cor 12, 3b-7. 12-13; Jn 20, 19-23 They were astounded (Acts 2, 7) We are given a share in the divine breath so that we may be created anew according to the full stature of Christ. God blew the breath of life into...
With clasping roots running deep into the ground, a tree grows strong and tall
The Ascension of the Lord (B), May 17, 2015 – Acts 1, 1-11; Eph 1, 17-23 or 4, 1-13; Mk 16, 15-20 The surpassing greatness of his power for us (Eph 1, 19) The Son of God goes up to heaven. He brings humanity with him, for whose salvation he came down from heaven....
