Is 35:4-7a; Jas 2:1-5; Mk 7:31-37 Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau The sick to be healed is a “stuttering deaf” as in the original text. For Isaiah, the “stuttering deaf” was the people of Israel. However, the patient…
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AND THE WORD BECAME EUCHARISTIC BREAD – 19TH August 2018 – 20th Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
– Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau Today’s Gospel begins with an outrageous statement: the bread to eat is “his own flesh.” The reaction of those present is understandable and justified: “How can this man give us his flesh to…
WHAT THE HUMAN EYES CANNOT SEE – 12 August 2018, 19TH Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
1 Kgs 19:4-8, Eph 4:30-5:2, Jn 6:41-51 Edmond Lo www.FLL.cc Summer in Toronto is a beauty. Too bad it is so short. This summer of mine began with a 8-day cruise trip from Vancouver to Alaska, on which I was…
THERE IS BREAD THAT GIVES ETERNAL LIFE – 5TH August 2018, 18th Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
Ex 16:2-4,12-15; Eph 4:117,20-24; Jn 6:24-35 Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau After the multiplication of the bread the crowd tried to make him king. He knew that they were doing…
THE RISK OF BEING HOMELESS – 8 JULY 2018, 14TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (B)
Ez 2:2-5; 2 Cor 12:7-10; Mk 6:1-6 – Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau In Capernaum, Jesus expressed his admiration for the gesture of four men who brought down the roof of a house to introduce a paralytic (Mk…
RESTORING DIGNITY AND LIFE TO ISRAEL – 1 July 2018 – 13TH Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24; 2 Cor 8:7; 9:13-15; Mk 5:21-43 Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau The passage proposes two miracles: one, the healing of a sick woman and the other, raising the daughter of Jairus. These miracle stories carry…
A COURAGEOUS WITNESS OF THE LIGHT – 24 June 2018 – Birth of St. John The Baptist
Jer 1:4-10; 1 Pt 1:8-12; Lk 1:57-66,80 Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications In the barren womb of Elizabeth the evangelist sees depicted the sterility of Israel and the condition of death in which the whole humanity lies. The desperate situation…
THE “FILM” OF CORPUS CHRISTI – 3RD June 2018 – SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (CORPUS CHRISTI)
Ex 24:3-8, Heb 9:11-15, Mk 14:12-16, 22-26 Edmond Lo www.FLL.cc Don’t know about you, but to me the scenes that appear before my eyes as today’s readings are solemnly proclaimed in the liturgy of the Word are more vivid, colorful,…
WHERE EXACTLY DID JESUS’ ASCENSION TAKE PLACE? -13 May 2018 – Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord
Acts 1:1-11, Eph 4:1-13, Mk 16:15-20 Edmond Lo According to today’s Gospel, Mark, it was in Galilee (Mk 16:7). Matthew also located the event in Galilee (Mt. 28:7, 16). Luke? Contrary to the Marcan and Matthean accounts, he put it…