Our Theme for 2025 (Part 3) – Job
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL OUR THEME FOR 2025 (Part 3) JOB October 1, 2024 Today’s readings: Job 3:1-3,11-17,20-23 Psalm 88:2-8 In Ecclesiastes we saw that there is a time for everything, involving diametrically opposite situations, such as war and peace, as well as mourning and dancing. This is what Job experienced. He was prosperous […]
Modernism (Part 88) – Reality of Hell
FROM THE SERVANT GENERALMODERNISM(PART 88) REALITY OF HELL September 29, 2024Today’s gospel: Mark 9:38-43,45,47-48 There are many passages, both in the New and Old Testaments, that speak of eternal damnation and fire. Today we have one of those passages, warning that those who persist in sin are liable “to be thrown into Gehenna, where their worm does […]
Our Theme for 2025 (Part 2) – A Time to Hope
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL OUR THEME FOR 2025 (Part 2) A TIME TO HOPE September 27, 2024 Today’s readings: Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 Psalm 144:1-4 Luke 9:18-22 Qoheleth tells us, “There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens.” (Eccl 3:1). He goes on to cite the different events […]
Our Theme for 2025 (Part 1) – Hope with Each New Day
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL OUR THEME FOR 2025 (Part 1) HOPE WITH EACH NEW DAY September 26, 2024 Today’s readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 Psalm 90:3-6,12-14,17 Our theme for 2025 is “Hope Abounds.” In the midst of the great turmoil in the world today, together with darkness and trials that can enter into our lives, we […]
Our Theme for 2025
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL THEME FOR 2025 The year 2025 will be a Jubilee Year in our Church. It has been proclaimed as a Year of Hope. This is particularly relevant in the face of unprecedented troubles in the world today, leaving many people feeling hopeless and helpless. We indeed are pilgrims in the […]
Thought for the Day (Part 119) – Weeds Among the Wheat
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY (Part 119) WEEDS AMONG THE WHEAT July 27, 2024 Today’s gospel: Matthew 13:24-30 Jesus told his disciples the parable of the weeds among the wheat. In the Kingdom of heaven, there are both wheat and weeds, which co-exist in the Church, in one’s family, in the […]
Modernism (Part 87) – Jesus and the Childlike
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL MODERNISM (Part 87) JESUS AND THE CHILDLIKE July 17, 2024 Today’s gospel: Matthew 11:25-27 Many Catholics, both lay and clergy, would find it scandalous, or at least unacceptable, to criticize Church hierarchs, especially the Pope. Especially by ordinary laypeople. In their minds they might think, “Who are you to criticize […]
Modernism (Part 86) – The Need for Repentance
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL MODERNISM (Part 86) THE NEED FOR REPENTANCE July 16, 2024 Today’s gospel: Matthew 11:20-24 Jesus reproached the unrepentant towns of Chorazin and Bethsaida (v.20-22), warning of judgment more intolerable than that meted to Tyre and Sidon, which were pagan cities denounced for their wickedness. Jesus also reproached Capernaum, having a […]
Modernism (Part 85) – Modernists Divide the Church
FROM THE SERVANT GENERALMODERNISM(PART 85) MODERNISTS DIVIDE THE CHURCH July 15, 2024Today’s readings:Isaiah 1:10-17Psalm 50:8-9,16-17,21,23Matthew 10:34-11:1 Jesus, the Prince of Peace, came not “to bring peace but the sword.” (Mt 10:34). Even family members will be divided (Mt 10:35). Now we see that even in our Church, the very family of God, […]