LOOK AT MY SERVANT, MY CHOSEN ONE. Matthew 12:14-21 When Jesus walked the roads of Galilee proclaiming the kingdom of God and healing many sick people, He felt compassion for the crowds. The true remedy for the wounds of our world (whether material wounds, such as hunger and injustice, or psychological and moral wounds, caused […]
I WANT MERCY AND NOT SACRIFICES. Matthew 12:1-8 This passage tells how Jesus and his disciples, passing through a wheat field on the Sabbath, gather ears of grain to eat. The Pharisees accuse them of violating the Sabbath, but Jesus reminds them that the purpose of the law is to serve humankind and not the
COME TO ME, ALL YOU WHO ARE WEARY AND BURDENED, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. Matthew 11:28-30 The Gospel passage of Matthew delves into this idea of resting our life in God. The yoke of the Lord is very different from the yokes of the rulers of this world. The yoke of the Lord
TAKE HEART, DAUGHTER, YOUR FAITH HAS HEALED YOU. Matthew 9:18-26 Today’s Gospel leads us to meditate on two miracles of Jesus on behalf of two women. The first, a woman considered unclean due to irregular bleeding, which she had suffered from for twelve years. The other, in favor of a girl who had just died.
SETTING OUT ON THE ROAD. Luke 10:1-12. 17-20 The role of Jesus himself is to summon and send in mission. He is in the Church to continue calling missionaries and apostles. He is the one who has the initiative to proclaim and carry out the Gospel of salvation.And He sends them all over the world.
THE NEW WINE IS POURED INTO NEW WINESKINS. Matthew 9:14-17 The message of this Gospel passage can be summed up in the phrase of Saint Paul: “He who is in Christ is a new creation; the old is past, everything is new.” The one who has encountered Christ, the one who has allowed himself to
FOLLOW ME, HE GOT UP AND FOLLOWED HIM. Matthew 9:9-13 In this passage, Jesus calls Matthew, a tax collector, to follow him. Matthew gets up and follows him. Then, in Matthew’s house, Jesus sits at table with many tax collectors and sinners. The Pharisees ask the disciples why Jesus eats with sinners and tax collectors.
SAINT THOMAS THE APOSTLE DO NOT BE AN UNBELIEVER, BUT A BELIEVER. John 20:24-29 The reading from the Gospel according to John (20:24-28) introduces us to Thomas, one of the disciples, who was absent when Jesus appeared to the other disciples. The doubt in Thomas upon hearing that Jesus had risen offers us a valuable
TO JOIN HIM IN HIS PATH, JUST AS I AM. Matthew 8:28-34 Today’s Gospel invites us to recognize in our lives and in our world the evil that dwells in us and its effects on our personal lives and relationships with others, with the world, with God. But it also fills us with hope, because
SAVE US, LORD, WE ARE GOING TO DROWN. Matthew 8:23-27 It seems that the Lord sleeps when we need Him most. We seek to do the good we can every day, to bear witness to our faith, to carry out some activity of apostolate or service to those in need. But many times we find
