First Reading: Isaiah 53:10-11
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22
Second Reading: Hebrews 4:14-16
Gospel: Mark 10:35-45
Last Sunday, the liturgy made us meditate on our attachment to riches and even just to earthly things that keep us...
Wisdom 7:7-11, Hebrews 4:12-13, Mark 10:17-30
On the twenty-eighth Sunday of the ordinary time, the prescribed Gospel passage discusses the theme of wealth and discipleship. In the world in which people amass wealth and place personal...
Ist Reading: Numbers:- 11:25 - 29
IInd Reading: James: 5: 1 - 6
Gospel:Mark: 9:38 – 43. 47 - 48
Today we continue to read from the Gospel of Mark. Recall that last week we heard Jesus rebuke his disciples for their argument about who among them was...
In the first reading taken from the book of Wisdom, we find the first very important references to the figure of the Messiah who will have to suffer, be judged and be condemned to death. As it is...
The Way of the Messiah
The Word of God this Sunday defines the meaning of life not in terms of personal gain, self-interest and shallow success, but rather in terms of one’s sense of duty, commitment and fidelity. Ultimately, it is our ability to live...
DIVINE ATTRACTION
First Reading: 1 Kings 19:4-8
The Lord feeds Elijah, strengthening him for his journey to Horeb.
In our first reading today the prophet Elijah went a day’s journey into the desert and was ready for death. An angel of the...
1st reading: - 2 kings: - 4: 42 – 462nd reading: - Eph: - 4: 1 – 6Gospel reading: - Jn: - 6: 1 – 15 The first reading and the gospel of today's liturgy make clear that God is concerned for his people. In the first reading, Elisha multiplies the bread...
first reading Jeremiah 23: 1-6, second reading Ephesians 2,13-18,Gospel Mark 6,30-34
This Sunday's liturgy offers us a few verses from chap. 6, but of surprising intensity, almost a sort of revelation that captures our interior gaze to fix it on...
On the 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time, in the prescribed Gospel passage, Jesus appears to give the same advice to his apostles whom he commissions: travel Light. The first reading tells us that God uses ordinary people for extraordinary service. The...
Ezekiel 2:2-5; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; Mark 6:1-6
Today’s three readings from the Holy Scriptures echo the Christian virtues of obedience, servitude, and humility that should be part of every Christian life.
The First Reading from the Book...
Wisdom1,13-15;2,23-24 ,2 Cor 8,7.9.13-15, Mk 5,21-43
The first reading of today from the book of wisdom speaks that God does not take pleasure in the death of anyone because he is the creator as written in the book of Gen: 1 that everything God...
First reading: Job 38.1.8-1,
Second reading: 2 Corinthians 5: 14-17,
Gospel: Mark 4: 35-41
First reading: Job 38.1.8-11
The passage is found in the second part of the book of Job in which the great problem of the suffering of the just is...
Growing Mysteriously
Ezekiel 17:22–24 , Psalm 92:2–3,13–16, 2 Corinthians 5:6–10,Mark 4:26–34
First Reading: I, the Lord, bring low the high tree and lift high the lowly tree.
In the first reading, we hear a hopeful message...
First Reading: Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40
Responsorial Psalm: 33:4-5, 6, 9, 18-19, 20, 22
Second Reading: Romans 8:14-17
Gospel: Matthew 28:16-20
This Sunday's readings help us celebrate the great mystery of the SS. Trinity (understood as what...
Jn 15,26-27; 16,12-15
The Gospel of John in chapters 14 and 16 offers a reading of the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples. In this text we find many indications on the gift of the Holy Spirit and on the work he does. For Pentecost...
