Category: Weekly Message

The Parable of the Wedding Banquet and Garment points to the magnitude of God’s ofer of love to us (Mathew 22:1-14). Jesus uses exaggerated language and shocking words in the parable to reveal God’s extravagant, universal love and enormous generosity. The king invited the guests to the wedding banquet of his son. Yet they refused and ignored the invitaton. They …

As of this writing, there is an ongoing war in Israel. Let us pray for peace in the world especially in Israel because as what a survivor narrated, “The militants were shooting everyone. There was no mercy at all. Even children were executed.” The parable of the wicked tenants depicts how man can be an agent of violence and death …

The feast of the Holy Guardian Angels reveals God’s greatness and power. Angels are manifestation of God’s loving presence. Nothing is beyond God’s grace and redemption. Angels come from the Greek word, Angelos, which means envoys, intermediaries between God and man. They are messengers, guardians, protectors and teachers. The whole Bible is filled with reference to angels. They are agents …

The parable of the workers in the vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16) reveals God’s enormous and boundless generosity, infinite mercy and kindness beyond imagination. It is a lesson on grace because only God’s grace makes real love possible. It is a movement from fairness to justice and then to love. God has a special concern for the needy, the weak, the lost, …

Pope Francis said, “The words and gestures of the Lord touch our hearts: He takes the bread in His hands, pronounces the blessing, breaks it and offers it to the disciples, saying: Take; this is my body”. With great simplicity Jesus gives us the greatest sacrament in a humble gesture of giving and of sharing. At the culmination of His …

Pope Francis, in his homily, reminded Christians that the Lord, who is present in the Eucharist, takes each and everyone of us to heart, cares for us and satisfies our need for nourishment, companionship, consolation. He noted that “the Eucharist was like the destination of a journey along which Jesus had prefigured it through several signs, above all the multiplication …

Pope Francis said that Catholics must place the Eucharist at the center of their lives to transform their relationships with God and their neighbors. He pointed out: “If you are the same at the end of Mass as you were at the beginning, something is wrong. The Eucharist is the presence of Jesus, it is deeply transforming. Jesus comes and …

Pope Francis said that we are a community nourished by the body and blood of Christ. Communion with the body of Christ is an effective sign of unity, of communion, of sharing. One cannot participate in the Eucharist without committing oneself to mutual fraternity, which is sincere. But the Lord knows well that our human strength alone is not enough …

Pope Francis said that the Eucharist communicates the Lord’s love for us: a love so great that it nourishes us with Himself; a freely given love, always available to every person who hungers and needs to regenerate his own strength. To live the experience of faith means to allow oneself to be nourished by the Lord and to build one’s …

Pope Francis said that only love can heal fear at its root and free us from the self- centeredness that imprisons us. And that is what Jesus does. He comes as Bread broken in order to break open the shells of our selfishness. He gives of himself in order to teach us that only by opening our hearts can we …