Earth-made, but heaven-bound, Alleluia!
Readings: Acts 10,34.37-43; Ps 118, 1-2.16-17. 22-23; Col 3,1-4; Jn 20,1-9
Easter invites us to celebrate the victory of Light, Life and Truth. The empty tomb of Jesus is an ultimate declaration of the victory of the King of kings and Lord of Lords. In His Name we also won a victory. This is indeed the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad, for we have been renewed.
Readings: Isaiah 50:4-7, Psalm 22:8-9.17-18.19-20.23-24, Philippians 2:6-11, Luke 22:14-23:56
The union of Joy and sorrow, love and pain
Dear brethren, today we enter into the most important week of our faith, in which we contemplate the mystery of our salvation. Today’s liturgy is a mixture of joy and sorrow, an amalgam of love and pain through which God expresses his love to a humanity that is very slow at understanding it. The purposes of all this dreadful and remorse igniting liturgy is to evoke in us believers a sense of guilt for our sins that continually condemn the Christ to crucifixtion.
Joshua 5:9a, 10-12, Psalm 34:2-7 2, 2Corinthians 5:17-21, Luke 15:1-3,11-32
Return home beloved sinner
Today we celebrate the fourth Sunday of the season of Lent also called the Laetare Sunday. The readings invite us to rejoice because of the mercy and love of the father who treats us tenderly, not according to how we deserve to be treated because of our sins but who, because of his mercy, welcomes us with a fatherly embrace and perdons our sins. The beauty of this parable from the word of God lies in its capacity to speak to us and touch us in the different niches that we create for ourselves.
Your past is forgotten, be open for newness
Readings: Is 43, 16-21; Ps 126, 1-6; Phil 3, 8-14; Jn 8,1-11
The Word of God for us on the fifth Sunday of Lent invites us to contemplate what God is doing in us as we make the journey of Lent. He is making something new. The old is past and the new is close at hand. Do you perceive it? Good news is that God does not condemn anybody but saves.
Grow up because you are given a new chance!
Readings: Ex 3,1-8.13-15; Ps 103, 1-2.3-4.6-8; 1 Cr 10, 1-6.10-12; Lk 13.1-8
The Word of God for us on the third Sunday of Lent invites us to contemplate the patient mercy of God and be attracted to it so as to grow and bear fruit. We are given another „year“ to be nurtured so that we may bear fruits of a true conversion. The time to repent is now.
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