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All Souls Day (Year B)

Living in this scientific age, it is not easy to hold on to the belief in God and in the spiritual realm. Things which used to be categorized as spiritual are now consigned to being psychological. Perhaps modern people d…
Mission Sunday (Year B)

Isaiah once said that God's thoughts were not our thoughts. How true he was! For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my w…
Feast of St. Teresa of Avila (Year B)

We are reading Romans 3 today. I suspect that the readers of this epistle were mainly Jews because Paul suddenly quoted extensively from the Psalms and Isaiah (See the Appendix). Frankly speaking, reading Romans 3 is not…
Beat plowshares into swords?

We are familiar with the Isaiah verse. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift u…
Feast of St. Thérèse of Lisieux (Year B)

The Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of St. Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897) today. It is also the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the People's Republic of China. St. Thérèse was famous for her simplicity …
Does God need a Temple?

Cyrus, the Persian King, sent the Jews back to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. The Samaritans disrupted the project and the rebuilding came to a halt for some eighteen years. The remnant that had chosen to return lost t…
Feast of St. Monica (Year B)

St. Monica (333-387), the mother of St. Augustine, is a patron saint for wives and abused victims. Monica suffered a similar fate. Yet she patiently endured all and persistently prayed for all. Her example had already be…
Queenship of Mary (Year B)

I got up early in the morning because today I had to attend a written test administrated by Fr. George Zee, S.J. together with 4 other permanent deacon aspirants. In the years I attended the Biblical Institute, it took m…
The Golden Calf

Moses went up to the mountain for forty days to get the 10 Commandments. The people below were getting impatient. It is not easy to wait for forty days when no end is in sight. Listen to the Israelites. When the people s…
Collection of Prooftexts

We continue reading Paul's preaching in a synagogue on Sabbath in Antioch of Pisidia during his first missionary journey. It seems that Christians have collected, over the years, a set of Old Testament quotations to prov…