Matthew 10:37-42 One thing on my bucket list is the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela or the Camino de Santiago. I have stories of people doing at least 100 km of walking for days. In the many stories that I have heard, I realize that each person has his or her own pace when walking….
Following the Law
Once I celebrated Mass in a condominium complex. In front of where the Mass was being held were two condominium buildings. One was very nice, very clean, and very orderly. The other building was very dirty, chaotic and a place you would not be excited to go home. After the Mass, I asked a resident…
Inheritance
After the blessing of a house, and on my way out, I noticed a 4-story building that was rundown near the property. I got surprised because the community was very progressive. I asked what happened to the building, “Why are the owners not taking care of it?” She gave a history of the building: A…
Jerusalem
A city with a very colorful history is Jerusalem. It is the holiest city for the Jews because of the TEMPLE; it is the holiest city for Christians because of The Christ Crucifixion; it is the third holiest city for the Muslims because of the Dome of the Rock. Yet, it has a very bloody…
Apathy
Some people have this misconception that if one is poor, that person will go to heaven and if the person is rich, that person will go to hell. The Gospel reading of Lazarus and the rich man reinforces this misconception. Hence, the questions are: Why then, did the rich man go to hell? Was he…
Who Do You Follow
Matthew 9:9-13 As human beings, there are people in our lives who we admire and because of that, we follow them: We imitate how they look like; we listen to what they say;what they believe in, we believe too; what they buy, we buy as well;when there is news about them, we listen. In 2016, according to…
Haters
Do you sometimes get this feeling that there are people watching your every move, trying to find fault, and then broadcasting it to other people? In other words, there are people who would just want to pull you down. Even Jesus was not exempted. His every move was being watched; his every word was being…
Sickness
When one is chronically sick, the instinct to survive goes on overdrive: he seeks the opinion of other doctors; he listens to the advice of other people; he does research on the internet; he even goes to faith healers, not aware that the spirit doing the healing is not from God. In the Gospel, there…
The True Treasure
Matthew 13:44-46 There is this story of a woman who was offered a business proposal – a huge, huge, return on the investment. The group were gold hunters and they informed the woman that the gold is just a few meters away at the mining site. She eventually gave a huge amount of money. After…
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