Luke 18:1-8 – Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau The readings today help us to reflect on prayer. Why are we invited to turn to him with insistence? What is the meaning of prayer? To these questions Jesus responds today…
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FROM HEALING TO FAITH – 13th October 2019, 28th Sunday In Ordinary Time (C)
GOSPEL: LUKE 17:11-19 – Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau We can run the risk of reducing the message of today’s Gospel to a lesson of good manners, to remember to say thank you to those who help us. Ten lepers of…
MERITS ARE PURE GRACE – 6th October 2019, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (C)
Luke 17:5-10 – Fr. Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications Macau Jesus narrates the parable of the slave that leaves us a bit bitter and disillusioned. After a hard day’s work, the slave returns home very tired. The master, instead of…
ADMINISTRATORS ONLY, NOT OWNERS – 22nd September 2019, 25th Sunday In Ordinary Time
LUKE 16:1-13 – Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications Macau A steward is accused before the big landowner of malpractices. The master has him called and tells him what he heard about him. The facts are so clear. So he…
DISCIPLESHIP IS A DEMANDING PROPOSITION – 8TH September 2019, 23rd Sunday In Ordinary Time
Luke 14:25-33 – Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau Jesus makes three very hard requests that end with the same severe refrain: cannot be my disciple! Luke wants to address these words of Jesus to the many converts of…
THE PROPHETS SHARE A UNIQUE FATE – 18 August 2019, 20th Sunday In Ordinary Time (C)
– LUKE 12:49-57 – Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau What is the fire that Jesus came to bring on earth (v. 49)? Why does he say of not coming to bring peace, but rather division (v. 51)? Today’s…
THROUGH THE EYES OF FAITH – 11th Sunday In Ordinary Time (C)
WIS 18:6-9; HEB 11:1-2, 8-19; LK 12:32-48 – Edmond Lo www.FLL.cc In this age of atheism and materialism, many people see faith as essentially an interior attitude that is subjective, imaginative, and psychological. It is, in a word, objectively unreal…
TO ACCUMULATE GOOD FOR ONESELF IS MADNESS – 4th August 2019, 18th Sunday In Ordinary Time
LUKE 12:13-21 – Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications Macau One day Jesus was chosen as mediator to solve a family feud. Despite some bickering between brothers, in general, they love each other. Until when? Until the day they talk…
PRAYER: A CONVERSION OF THE SELF – 28TH July 2019: 17Th Sunday In Ordinary Time (C)
LUKE 11:1-13 – Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau No evangelist insists so much on the subject of prayer as Luke. He remembers that Jesus prayed seven times. Luke also reports five prayers of Jesus including, “Father, forgive them, for…
MARY OR MARTHA? – 21ST July 2019 – 16th Sunday In Ordinary Time
Genesis 18.1-10a; Colossians 1:24-28; Luke 10:38-42 – Shiu Lan www.FLL.cc This Sunday’s Gospel Reading about the familiar story of Mary and Martha reminds me of a very inspiring homily I heard recently about service. In life, we serve, we serve…