Friday after Ash Wednesday The social fasting Yes, your fast ends in quarreling and fighting, striking with wicked claw. Would that today you might fast so as to make your voice heard on high! Is this the manner of fasting I wish, of keeping a… Read More »ENFL044

Thursday after Ash Wednesday Losing to win Then he said to all: “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily  and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses… Read More »ENFL043

Ash Wednesday Testimony, not ostentation  When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise of others. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when… Read More »ENFL042

Tuesday of the Sixth week in Ordinary Time The sign of the bread They had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. He enjoined them, “Watch out, guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven… Read More »ENFL159

Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time The sign of the heaven The Pharisees came forward and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him. He sighed from the depth of his spirit and said, “Why does… Read More »ENFL158

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time The psychoanalysis and the confession A leper came to him (and kneeling down) begged him and said, “If you wish, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, “I… Read More »ENFS098

Saturday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time The Eucharist, our hope In those days when there again was a great crowd without anything to eat, he [Jesus] summoned the disciples and said, “My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have… Read More »ENFL157

Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time The healing of the deaf-mute Again he left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. And people brought to him a deaf man… Read More »ENFL156

Thursday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time The faith  drives out the demons From that place he went off to the district of Tyre. He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it, but he could not escape notice. Soon a… Read More »ENFL155

Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time We become what we contemplate He summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out… Read More »ENFL153