Today’s Gospel reflects Peter’s acknowledgement of Jesus being the Messiah, and the author Mark deliberately placed this in the middle of the Gospel, as it is a continuation of encouraging the reader to reflect and ponder if they themselves view Jesus as the Messiah, with Chapter1 being prompted by the Author themselves, and Chapter 15 being prompted by the Centurion [...]
Jesus' power to heal had reached the ears of many. Wherever he went, crowds of people followed him and many sickly people were brought to him for healing. Many who followed him, would have already witnessed his power to heal when they brought this deaf and mute man to Jesus and begged him to enable this man. When Jesus first [...]
When Mother Mary visited Elizabeth, she brought Jesus with her. Now when I heard that, similar to Mother Mary, since the time I was baptised, the Holy Spirit dwells in me, and hence, I have been, all along, bringing the Holy Spirit to visit others too. Mind blown. I had to step back for this to sink in. The ‘hannor [...]
Write about a way in which one can gain wisdom. Faced with the above essay question, one of my students blurted out "the Bible". Face palm. My slew of ideas as I prepped to teach this lesson did not include the Bible. Call myself a Christian. Cheek slap. Although my student attempted another essay in the end, it got me [...]
The externals are what we observe in our daily lives. There are people in the MRT and we see they are seated and they are on their mobile devices. We do not know what they are thinking about, and we often do not even know what they are feeling. As it is in today’s Gospel, the Lord tells us that [...]
A conscious decision to be a disciple of Jesus Christ requires one to be fully committed to being part of His plan. This includes making necessary sacrifices in difficult times and obeying His calling. At these times, one is presented with choices as to whether to be faithful to His ways. Jesus stressed that it is challenging to accept His [...]
We have just celebrated the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and as we continue with our journey in Ordinary Time, we discover also the invitation to journey together with Our Blessed Mother. The Sub Tuum Praesidium is the oldest documented prayer to Our Lady. It was first discovered on papyrus scrolls. While the actual dating is [...]
The second reading clearly invites us to be cautious of the ways of the world. It is easy to drug oneself with the wine of the world that says ‘We live today and for tomorrow we die.’ The only way out of these distractions is to be rooted in the Word of God. We are remind to be focused and [...]
Today’s readings focus on the importance of encountering God’s compassion and provision and connecting to Jesus, our eternal bread of life. In the first reading, the prophet Elijah was at a moment of the deepest despair. He has fled into the wilderness, feeling overwhelmed and ready to give up. He prayed for death, expressing his sense of failure and exhaustion. [...]
The Gospel reading of John 6:24-35 recounts the crowd followed Jesus to Capernaum seeking more signs of miracles. There, Jesus challenged them to seek the "bread of life," the spiritual sustenance He offers for eternal life, and not physical bread. Very often, we tend to focus on physical and material needs and neglect our spiritual well-being to seek deeper fulfillment [...]
