Month: September 2018

SMILING ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES

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Post date September 29, 2018
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This reflection is based on Mark 9:38-48. was written in 2015. I am reposting this because Pope Francis needs our prayers as he faces vicious attacks even from within the Church.

I’m reading the new book from Filipino priest-poet, Fr. Albert Alejo, SJ, Nabighani. It’s a lovely book of religious poetry translated into Filipino and guaranteed to make you fall in love all over again with our language. One of its gems that immediately caught my eye was a little-known piece entitled “Upang Ako’y Ngumiti sa Buo Kong Buhay” (“That I May Smile All My Life”), a prayer written by a Jorge Mario Bergoglio on the day of his ordination on December 13, 1969.

Tags Albert Alejo SJ, Mark 9:38-48, Nabighani, Pope Francis

HOMILIES

THE SIN OF THE SERPENT

This reflection is based on Mark 9:30-37.

I wonder how the disciples must have felt when our Lord caught them discussing a somewhat embarrassing topic. On their way to Capernaum, our Lord noticed how engaging and perhaps even heated the disciples’ discussion was getting. So when they reached their destination, it was only natural that Jesus ask them what their argument was all about.

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HOMILIES

SETTLING

This homily is based on Mark 8:27-35.

I found myself laughing out loud this Sunday morning over someone’s tweet. It was a short video clip of a girl applying for membership to a church group.
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Tags Mark 8:27-35, Matthew 6:24-34

HOMILIES

TURNING THE TABLE ON GOD

This homily is based on Mark 7:31-37.

I’ve been thinking about Cristy these days. I don’t think I will ever forget what I saw when I last visited her in the hospital. I had been warned about her, but I was shocked anyway. She wasn’t at all the Cristy I knew. Her cancer had ravaged her body: All skin and bones, she stared at me with one eye, the other forced shut by the growing tumor in her brain.

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HOMILIES

THE BECKONING OF BENCHES

This homily is based on Mark 7:1-23.

I took an early morning stroll today in a city I don’t know, one I’ve never set foot in before. Learning that I had only one day in the city, a friendly Afghan immigrant in a 24-hour convenience store pointed the way to a famous park nearby.

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