Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Reception of the illegal immigrants and legality Now when the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed,… Read More »ENFL151

Monday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time To touch Jesus and the mystery of the life After making the crossing, they came to land at Gennesaret and tied up there. As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him. They scurried about the… Read More »ENFL150

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Human promotion, proclamation and prayer Is not man’s life on earth a drudgery? Are not his days those of a hireling? Jb 7,1  When it was evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were ill or possessed by… Read More »ENFS097  

Saturday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time The need of the desert The apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” People were… Read More »ENFL149

February 2, The Presentation of the Lord The Candlemas When the days were completed for their purification  according to the law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord ….  Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name… Read More »ENSM003

Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time The announcement, being on the road He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking… Read More »ENFL146

Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time No one is prophet in his homeland  He departed from there and came to his native place ….When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said,… Read More »ENFL145

Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time The three levels of the faith One of the synagogue officials, named Jairus, came forward. Seeing him he fell at his feet and pleaded earnestly with him, saying, “My daughter is at the point of death. Please,… Read More »ENFL144

Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time The fulcrum of the prayer  They came to the other side  he sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes. When he got out of the boat, at once a man  from the tombs who had an unclean… Read More »ENFL143

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time To educate the young people to the chastity  I should like you to be free of anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord. But a married man is anxious… Read More »ENFS096