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, […]
Modernism (Part 84) – The Need for a Physician
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL MODERNISM (Part 84) THE NEED FOR A PHYSICIAN July 5, 2024 Today’s gospel: Matthew 9:9-13 Jesus came for sinners, and that is why he sat at table with tax collectors and sinners (v.10). He accepted them and accompanied them. This is what modernists call for, but that is where the […]
Modernism (Part 83) – Contrast in Approach to Sinners
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL MODERNISM (Part 83) CONTRAST IN APPROACH TO SINNERS July 4, 2024 Today’s gospel: Matthew 9:1-8 Jesus says to the paralytic, “your sins are forgiven.” (v.2b). A modernist pastor would say to a sinner, “you are accepted, you will be accompanied, you will not be judged.” Quite a contrast. First, […]
The Way Forward in Christ (Part 224) – The Lord’s Prayer
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL THE WAY FORWARD IN CHRIST (Part 224) THE LORD’S PRAYER June 20, 2024 Today’s gospel: Matthew 6:7-15 Our personal prayer time is referred to as our quiet time. We are to remain quiet before God, and listen to Him. “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that […]
Modernism (Part 82) – The Law of God
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL MODERNISM (Part 82) THE LAW OF GOD June 12, 2024 Today’s gospel: Matthew 5:17-19 People in Jesus’ time, hearing his radical preaching and even his criticism of religious authorities, thought he was now proclaiming a new religion, overturning the Mosaic law. But instead, Jesus reiterated the importance and continuing effect […]