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Thursday Be Merciful, Just As Your Father Is Merciful 23wot 12sep24

Today's gospel continues the Good Shepherd theme of yesterday's liturgy. Our dear Lord cautions us so we learn to discern good from bad, i.e., the good helps us to reach our true and final destiny, namely, heaven; but there are other actors in this theater of operations who are not interested in us getting there, but they exert their influence on us by wiles, deceptions, lies, etc., to get us to another destination, hell. This is the first principle we need to be aware of. In this trip to Heaven, there are obstacles and enemies, namely, the devil, the world, and the flesh. Thus, we should see the importance of God providing us the figure of the good Shepherd who leads and defends His sheepfold. We need to follow His lead. We need His discernment to filter out those who are thieves or robbers.

Monday I am the Gate of for the Sheep 4woe 12may25

The Church in today's liturgy of the word is more explicit in mentioning the Holy Spirit, Who will be sent from the Father. Jesus says that He is another Advocate for us in front of God. He is also the witness of Jesus before us. The reason is that He is the Author of our sanctification, that is, us becoming more and more Jesus Christ. This is to be expected because the life of grace is the very life of Jesus Christ, that is of God, in our souls. 

Monday The Spirit of Truth Will Testify to Me 6woe 26may25

Jesus reminds us that the Holy Spirit will come. He will guide them to the Truth. Normally, we depend on our thinking power to navigate through our lives. Jesus reveals to us that He will send the Spirit to guide us. That guidance will come in the form of enlightenment so that we can see better. The Lord has already revealed all the truths He needed to leave with us in the Church regarding the journey we all make to Heaven. However, we must face such challenges as our proneness to error, of limited intellectual capacity, the influence of the environment, contrary views and examples of living, etc. Hence, we should set out to deal with and receive the Holy Spirit's assistance with His Light, Gifts and grace.

Wednesday The Spirit of Truth Will Guide You 6woe 28may25.m4a

Today, the gospel continues to tell us about joy. That no one will remove our joy from us is what Jesus assures us.  Very much part of our Christian vocation is being joyful. Are we happy? We should be happy--not in the sense of an animal that is excited because it is going  to eat--in the sense of celebrating life. We are joyful because we are headed for Heaven. We are joyful because God is our Father. If our joy is dependent on external factors, then we should expect our joy to be unstable. One who keeps his sights on the goal of a trip, he will maintain his hopes up. One who forgets the goal or when one neglects to keep in mind that  goal, we would expect that he or she would become sad at times. Hope gives us life. New life cheers us up.

Friday No One Will Take Your Joy Away from You 6woe 30may25.m4a

We are called to dwell in the Blessed Trinity. This begins in this life through the indwelling of the Holy Trinity in our souls in the state of grace. Our God wants to be so united to each of us that He wants to be in us.

Wednesday May they be one just as we are One 7woe 4jun25 20250603-122426.m4a

Today, the Church opens so officially with the coming of the Holy Spirit in the fullest sense, enough to send each of the weak and fearful apostles to evangelize the Church, and even face martyrdom. We need Him more, nowadays.

Pentecost Sunday 8jun25 20250607-105346.m4a

Jesus gave us His Mother to be our Mother too! Mater Dei, Mater nostra! Children look like their parents. How do we try better to imitate her?

Monday Mary the Mother of the Church 10wot 9jun25 20250609-100735.m4a

What would you say of a lighted bulb not giving off light? Or a live charcoal not giving off heat? A Christian is supposed to change his environment and to bring it closer to God.

Tuesday Raise the Spiritual Temperature Around You 10wot 10jun25 20250609-183012.m4a

Our Lord Jesus Christ reveals in the gospel today His mind and intentions with regard to the Law that Was revealed before His coming. He had no intention of changing it, but to fulfill it. Just like what we saw yesterday when He introduced a clarification regarding the sixth commandment. Adultery is not only committed in physical terms, but also in the realm of thinking and willing.

Wednesday I Have Come Not to Abolish the Law but to Fulfill It 10wot 11jun25 20250610-185828.m4a

We celebrate today the best gift we have in Jesus Christ as the Priest. With His priesthood we have been saved. All His actions on earth were transformed by His priestly nature and mission that we can now enjoy filiation with God and destiny in Heaven. We are all called to assume a priestly soul, in imitation of Christ.

Thursday What a Priest We Have 10wot 12jun25 20250610-192242.m4a

We have heard the principle, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." Our Lord requires His followers not to seek revenge, but to be merciful. This is the most difficult challenge perhaps in Christianity. Anyhow, Jesus never said it would be easy to follow Him. We need to let the Holy Spirit help us. We need to pray for it.

Monday Seek no Revenge of the Evil One11wot 16jun25 20250615-224927.m4a

Today's gospel is simple. Love your Enemies!

Tuesday Love your Enemies 11wot 17jun25 20250616-085212.m4a

Our Lord teaches us today how we are to pray. We need to underscore that Jesus teaches us HOW we are to connect with God. Perhaps we do not need to say this prayer all the time, but we have here the model and pattern of HOW we need to pay. Hence, we have here the absolute elements of prayer.

Thursday This is How You Are to Pray 11wot 19jun25 20250619-103548.m4a

We cannot serve two masters. Jesus n tells us so much. But He does not only mean that we follow and obey Him. He also means that we trust HIM. Our trust in Him is tested all the time. The devil only wants us to distrust Him. That's how he got our first parents to sin.

Saturday Do not Worry about Tomorrow 11wot 21jun25 20250620-171733.m4a

We celebrate today the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. We give witness to the world of the Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist. Hidden under the appearance of bread and wine is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of the Second Person of the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity. Jesus is truly Emmanuel, God with us, I our Tabernacles.

Sunday of the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ 12sot 22jun25 20250621-135313

Let us not kid ourselves. Today's gospel only reinforces our conviction about the fact that we can be led astray by deceitful people. Adam and Eve's experience with the serpent continues nowadays. Satan is always on the prowl looking for fresh victims. Hence, our dear Lord Jesus Christ asks us to beware of false prophets. These latter can come nowadays to our homes and bedrooms because of TV, movies, etc and the pervasive Internet. Satan continues to hunt for victims to deceive and lead away from the truth and moral goodness. Jesus reveals a method to detect this before it harms us. Check their fruits, their products, their graduates, their later lives, etc. If the results show fruits that are not good, then we should be wary of the danger present in such teachers, or prophets.

Wednesday By Their Fruits You Will Know Them 12wot 25jun25 20250624-173215.m4a

We celebrate today two of the greatest apostles of Jesus Christ. Their witness and example should spur us on also in loving Jesus with deeds, even when we are beset by personal weaknesses and sins. The Lord did not choose them because they were perfect or near perfect. They were weak, proud, and cowardly, but they took seriously their moment of conversion. They lived Jesus in return, even to the point of martyrdom.

Sunday Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles 13sot 29jun25 20250628-184944.m4a

Let us observe the Sacred Humanity of Our Lord. Since He is perfect man, His most attractive. People wanted to follow Him. But do you have what it requires to follow Him?

Monday Follow Me Wherever I Go 13wot 30jun25 20250629-183509.m4a

Lord, save us! That was how the disciples woke Jesus up in the midst of that raging storm. What could you expect them to do? The waves were swamping the boat that they feared for their lives. Jesus got up without any care in  the world. This is peanuts! Anyhow, He rebuked those forces of nature and everything returned to calmness. He addressed them criticizing their little faith. We should admit to our little faith too, and that it should be  more and grow. How will it grow if there is no occasion for it to grow? True, God gives us more faith but there have to be times when more faith is required and we face the reality of our puny faith.

Tuesday Lord, Save Us! 13wot 1jul25 20250630-184047.m4a

Our Lord in today's gospel shows us how much He values man and his salvation relative to the swine that were in the area. The thing is the demons asked Him that they move to the swine. After He gave them leave, they entered the pigs and rushed them over the cliff to drown in the sea. The swineherds relayed this story to  the villagers who naturally did not like what Jesus did. So, they asked Him to leave their village. Our Lord is ready to be rejected just to belabor the point that those demoniacs deserved better and much more than the value of those swine. He was willing to lose them but not those men.

Wednesday Demons and Swine13wot 2jul25 20250630-204058.m4a

We need to live our Faith, not only saying it or reciting some formula. We need to struggle to live according to its demands.

Thursday My Lord and My God 13wot 3jul25 20250702-175250.m4a

Being summoned by God is something we need to get used to. Today's gospel particularly illustrates this. Jesus called some of his disciples and sent them as His apostles. He calls us all the time because He is always in touch with us. Our problem is that we are not disposed well enough to be sensitive to His summons consciously. We are His creatures. In man's case, each man is specifically and individually summoned by God from  nothing. He thought and freely willed each of us to existence, when we were conceived and from then on for eternally, in whatever circumstances that happened, whether by the marital embrace, or by rape, or by a lab technician in a petri dish. 

Wednesday Jesus Summons Us 14wot 09jul25 20250706-183029.m4a

The Lord asks us to be generous since He has been generous with us. His gifts are totally gratuitous. He was never obliged to give us anything, least of all to award us the gift of existing and is that of being destined to be with Him for eternity. The reality is obvious, namely, that He has given us so many things that we absolutely do not deserve having and  that we are totally obliged to be thankful to Him for. Then, we need to be generous also with our neighbor.

Thursday Without Cost You Have Received and So Without Cost You Are to Give 14wot 10jul25 20250708-1

The gospel today addresses these two very important questions, namely, eternal life and the identity of our neighbor. Let us be open to the words of Jesus so we could adopt whatever measure or make necessary adjustments in our lives to incorporate Jesus' commands in our circumstances.

Sunday Eternal Life and our Neighbor 15sot 13jul25 20250712-175722.m4a

Jesus explains clearly today what He wants from His followers. He does not mince words. He does not hide behind euphemisms. Nobody will be able to say that any of His demands or requirements were not clearly made plain. He employs strong words. His standards are clear. He demands that He is above every consideration: above family, above parents or any creature we may take fancy with.

Monday It is Everything He Wants 15wot 14jul25 20250713-174107.m4a

Today's gospel reveals to us a certain frustration of Jesus. Capharnaum became His second residence, after Nazareth. He adopted the city as His HQ for His public phase of His stay on Earth. He performed many miracles there, but still its population  resisted Jesus and His message. So, our Lord makes it plain that they would suffer more than what Sodom and Gomorrah underwent when God sent fire and brimstone from Heaven to destroy them. This episode should spur us to wake up our sense of responsibility to respond generously to Our Lord's invitation to conversion and more self-giving.

Tuesday Capharnaum Will Be Thrust into Hell 15wot 15jul25 20250713-180432.m4a

Today's gospel message is too significant to overlook or to miss. It is so because we all want to become friends of Jesus Christ. For that to happen, we need what our Lord reveals today. We need to be childlike. Listen to the homily.

Wednesday God Reveals the Truth to the Childlike 15wot 16jul25 20250715-095251.m4a

Jesus invites us in today's gospel to rest, and to rest in Him. He described how this looks like. We should imitate Him, in being meek and humble of heart.

Thursday Learn to Rest in the Lord Jesus 15wot 17jul25 20250716-140449.m4a

Today, Jesus clarifies who is the Lord! This term was employed by the reverent Jews with respect to God's name. They preferred not to pronounce His Name and use another term. They applied the word the Romans used to refer to their Emperor. Thus, what the Jews did was actually subversive in the Roman Empire because Yahweh was the Lord. Anyhow, on the occasion of the controversy the Jews began about their criticism of Jesus' disciples who picked on grain to eat it to satisfy their hunger. After alluding to a couple of justifications for that behavior that were about the commandment of the Sabbath being trumped by other commandments, Jesus concluded with the final justification, namely, Jesus is Lord even of the Sabbath.

Friday The Son of Man is the Lord Even of the Sabbath 15wot 18jul25 20250717-115557.m4a

Today's gospel reveals the difference in the words we utter in response to different circumstances that happen to us. With bad things, we can curse. With good things, we react differently. The last line of the text tells us about  reacting with hope. Listen to the homily to check this out!

Saturday And in His Name the Gentiles will Hope 15wot 19jul25 20250719-003112.m4a

Today, we meet Martha and Mary at their home with Jesus as their guest. The two present to us two different ways of living our lives here on earth. We know that our  stay here on earth is a preparation to be with God for eternity. Martha felt harassed and anxious about her working compounded by being alone without Mary not realizing she could be helping her. She asked Jesus for help. But the Lord helped her realize that Mary was fine listening to Him. He pointed out that Mary was agitated because she was missing something essential which was what Mary was doing, namely, her awareness of being with Jesus and listening to Him. That was the only thing necessary, that she in her concern shown in preparing to be hospitable with the Lord, she was not praying like her sister was.

Sunday Martha Welcomed Jesus but Mary Chose the Better Part 16sot 20jul25 20250719-114142.m4a

The gospel today tells us about signs. There were people, the scribes and pharisees, who asked our Lord for a sign. Check out His reply.

Monday An Evil Generation Seeks a Sign !6wot 21jul25 20250721-065548.m4a

Today, we celebrate the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, Apostle. That's right! She is the first one asked by Our Lord to announce the Good News of Jesus' resurrection. He has triumphed over sin and death. This is totally unprecedented. She is a woman!

Tuesday Who are you Looking For 16wot 22jul25 20250722-103343.m4a

We are called by the gospel today to be good ground for the seeds God does in our souls.

Wednesday The Sower and the Seeds 16wot 23jul25 20250722-214839.m4a

Today's gospel enlightens us about our relationship with the Blessed Lord. Find out about it in the podcast.

Thursday They Approached Jesus 16wot 24jul25 20250723-182736.m4a

Today, we celebrate the feast of St. James, Apostle. The gospel brings to our attention the conversation between the mother of two apostles, James and John. She requested Jesus to install her sons in the highest positions of His kingdom. Listen to the homily about the vision Jesus has of the leadership roles in His kingdom.

Friday We Can! 16wot 25jul25 20250724-182003.m4a

Ordained priest of Opus Dei by St. Pope John Paul II on 26may1991. In case you would like to donate for my work in making these homilies and classes you can use my GCash account +639391579078.

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