Category: Exhortation, Motivational
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Homily for the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
16.06.2024 – St. Patrick Catholic Church, Largo, FL The Small things for the Kingdom of God Ezekiel 17:22-24; Psalm 92, 2Cor. 5:6-10; Mk 4:26-34 Today’s readings remind us of the value of smallness, little things and small beginnings. Smallness or littleness is not only beautiful; it is also God’s chosen way of manifesting his power…
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Homily for Saturday, 10th Week in Ordinary Time
15.06.2024 – St. Patrick Catholic Church, Largo, FL Being truthful and charitable 1Kings 19:19-22, Psalm 16, Matthew 5:27-32 Saint Thomas Aquinas once said: “People could not live with one another if there were not mutual confidence that they were being truthful to one another… (In justice) as a matter of honor, one person owes it…
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Homily for Wednesday, 8th Week in Ordinary Time
29.05.2024 – St Patrick Catholic Church, Largo, FL Self-giving and discipleship 1Peter 1:18-25, Psalm 147, Mark 10:32-45 In Mark´s gospel, Jesus predicts his passion and death three times, and each time, at least one of the disciples just doesn’t get it. (cf. Mk 8:27-33, 9:30-34 and 10:32-34). Today´s gospel reading is located in the context…
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A humble reminder
Believe everything you see on social media at your own peril Everyday someone is getting married Everyday someone is getting a new car Everyday someone is getting a new mansion Everyday someone is getting a well paid job Everyday someone is getting a masters or PhD degree Everyday someone is making a travel to his…
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Take some break
Take a look at your yesterday; Then be grateful for where you are today. As long as there is life; We will always be a work in progress. Never get too anxious about tomorrow, Tomorrow will always take care of itself. Take a deep breathe. Take some break. Because the journey is still far, You…
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Take what is yours and go home
“Take what is yours and go home.” Sometimes, we aren’t even grateful for what we´ve got, what we´ve been given. Instead of being grateful, we focus on “the other”, what he´s got or what he´s been given. This comparison seems unnecessary and brings us sorrow. Instead of invest time and energy developing our God-given talents;…
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Never be overshadowed by your past – Rule 2 – Basic rules of happy living
Fr. Valentine Umoh write: “Never be overshadowed by your past, leave those thoughts where they belong, in the past. Let the past be past. Sometimes you really need to speak to someone, to open up and to let those thoughts out. That´s one of the healing effects of what Catholics call “the Sacrament of Reconciliation…
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Saint Paul Digest with vu_biblia 10.06.2020
“Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?” (1Cor 12:29-30). Greek uses μή as a negative particle to introduce questions expecting a negative answer. Therefore, these rhetorical questions, obviously expecting the answer no, show that there…
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Saint Paul Digest with vu_biblia 07.06.2020
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all” 2Cor 13:14 With the above Trinitarian benediction, the Apostle Paul closes his Second Letter to the Christians in Corinth. Many have been said and written about the doctrine of the Holy Trinity…
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Saint Paul Digest with vu_biblia 05.06.2020
We are all gifted differently affirms Saint Paul in 1Cor 12: 8-11, 28-30, Rom 12: 6-8 also see Eph 4: 11-16) There is no one who is not gifted but like the parable of the talents in the synoptics it depends on us to develop what’s in us. Gifts and talents when no developed or…
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