1. Today is the last Sunday of the month. Liturgically, it is the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time. In the Gospel (Luke 9:51-62), Jesus is walking. The Lord is moving. He is heading towards Jerusalem. The question is, why Jerusalem? What is so special about Jerusalem? Why not Galilee, Judea, etc? The point of Jerusalem […]
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Come join us and thank the Lord for bringing us to the middle of 2022. Theme : I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds (Psalm 9:1) The resource person is Fr. Amos Quansah. It starts from Wednesday 29th June to 1st July, 6:30
Born 24 April 1581 to a peasant family in Ranquine, Gascony near Dax, southwest France (now known as Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Landes), a highly intelligent youth, VINCENT, spent four years with the Franciscan friars at Acq, France, receiving an education. He was tutor to children of gentlemen in Acq. He began divinity studies in 1596 at the
They were twin brothers of Arabic descent, born in the third century. Physicians, trained in Syria, they accepted no payment for their services, and their charity brought many to Christ. It was reported that they miraculously replaced the ulcerous leg of a man named Justinian with one from a recently deceased man. Arrested during the
The first native Korean priest was the son of Korean converts. His father, Ignatius Kim, was martyred during the persecution of 1839 and was beatified in 1925. After Baptism at the age of 15, Andrew traveled 1,300 miles to the seminary in Macao, China. After six years he managed to return to his country through
St. Januarius was born in Italy and was bishop of Benevento during the Emperor Diocletion persecution. Bishop Januarius went to visit two deacons and two laymen in prison. He was then also imprison along with his deacon and lector. They were thrown to the wild beasts, but when the animals did not attack them, they
Born 4 October 1542 at Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy ROBERTO FRANCESCO ROMOLO was the third of ten children of Vincenzo Bellarmine and Cinzia Cervini, a family of impoverished nobles. His mother, a niece of Pope Marcellus II, was dedicated to almsgiving, prayer, meditation, fasting, and mortification. Robert suffered assorted health problems all his life. Educated by
St. Thomas was one of the apostles of Jesus and he was also called ‘Doubting Thomas’. Even though St. Thomas entertained doubt about any miracle that happened without his presence, he was a very staunch believer of Christ. One day when Jesus was preparing to go to Judea to see the ailing Lazarus and other
Most of us are the foreigners, the non-Israelites, about whom today’s First Reading prophesies. Coming to worship the God of Israel, we stand in the line of faith epitomized by the Canaanite woman in today’s Gospel. Calling to Jesus as Lord and Son of David, this foreigner shows great faith in God’s covenant with Israel. Jesus tests her faith three times.
The name of Saint Callistus is rendered famous by the ancient cemetery which he beautified, and which, for the great number of holy martyrs whose bodies were there deposited, was the most celebrated of all those about Rome. He was a Roman by birth, succeeded Saint Zephirin in the pontificate in 217 or 218, on
