REFLECTIONS TODAY Jesus is aware of his mission intended to the house of Israel. However, today’s Gospel presents Jesus as going to the region of Tyre and Sidon where a Canaanite woman asks him for the healing of her daughter who is tormented by a demon. The reaction of Jesus’ disciples is to...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Jesus and his disciples are about to go to Jerusalem where Jesus will suffer greatly, be killed, and will rise after three days. Jesus knows that his impending passion can easily blur the vision of his disciples with regard to his resurrection. Hence, Jesus allows them to have a...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Today’s Gospel narrates the feeding of the multitude. The disciples come to Jesus, suggesting that the crowds be dismissed so that they may look for their own provisions. Jesus tells the disciples not to send the people away. The disciples themselves must give people something...
REFLECTIONS TODAY First Reading • Ex 16:2-4, 12-15 The whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “Would that we had died at the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, as we sat by our fleshpots and ate our fill of bread! But you had to lead us...
REFLECTIONS TODAY There are times when, out of excitement, we could be wrong in what we say and do. It would be worse when, after realizing the wrongness of the word we are about to say or the action we are about to do, we would still say or do it. Today’s Gospel tells of the beheading of...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Jesus goes to his hometown and teaches in the synagogue. Those who hear him are amazed but at the same time confused. They are unable to accept the fact that Jesus, whom they think they know very well, is performing miracles and demonstrating great wisdom. They are unable to put...
REFLECTIONS TODAY The parables of the Buried Treasure and that of the Pearl of Great Price give us a similar lesson: the Kingdom of heaven is a treasure beyond price; we must renounce all that may hinder us from possessing it. The Kingdom of heaven, as Jesus tells us, is the reign of God in...
REFLECTIONS TODAY After speaking to the crowds in parables, including the parable of the Wheat and the Weeds, Jesus explains this last parable to his disciples that they may understand “what lays hidden.” Whereas the parable itself concentrates on patience with the “weeds” until judgment...
REFLECTIONS TODAY The Gospel story refines the idea of hospitality. Martha is probably the older of the two sisters and plays host. She is the one who welcomes Jesus. Her anxiety and concern are understandable enough. But her self-preoccupation turns to resentment and accusation: Mary has left her...
REFLECTIONS TODAY The Gospel is chosen for the feast of Sts. Joachim and Anne, parents of Mary and grandparents of Jesus. They are righteous people who longed for the Savior; in them and in their daughter Mary, the hopes and dreams of centuries are about to meet, because Jesus the Savior is soon to...
REFLECTIONS TODAY In the first-century Palestine, there were various practices of planting. One is described in the Gospel—that of plowing after sowing. In the process, some seed is lost because it has no good soil or is choked by thorns. But in the end, the harvest far compensates for the...
Photo from Pixabay Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian has directed the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program’s (4Ps) National Program Management Office (NPMO) to immediately work on the conditionalities for the implementation of the First 1,000 Days...
