advent, coming, preparation
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THE LORD’S COMING AND OUR HOPEFUL WAITING: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 1ST SUNDAY OF ADVENT, CYCLE A, 2022

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It is a new season of the church’s liturgical year, the season of advent which means the lord’s coming to save us and our hopeful waiting in preparation. The word advent in Latin “adventus” means “coming”.

This is the coming of Jesus into the world. Advent is intended to be a season of anticipation for Christ coming, preparation for Christ coming and reparation for Christ coming at Christmas. Advent also marks the start of the liturgical New Year and a moment of grace, mercy, peace, love, and salvation.

peace, kingship of christ, christ the king
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CHRIST KING OF PEACE: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 34TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, SOLEMNITY OF CHRIST THE UNIVERSE KING, CYCLE C, 2022

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What marks the kingship and reign of Christ from every other kingship or reign is peace. The kingship and reign of men have always been one of violence, bloodshed and lack of enduring peace. The British movie “THE GAMES OF THRONES” depicts this horrible reality and the characteristics of the reigns and kingships of men.

COURAGE TO STAND FIRM: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 33RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE C, 2022
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COURAGE TO STAND FIRM: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 33RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE C, 2022

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On this penultimate Sunday to the end of the Church’s liturgical year. The central theme of today’s readings is an invitation for us to muscle courage to stand firm in/with Christ Jesus. Especially, as it pertains to the Day of the Lord or the Second Coming of Jesus in glory as a judge.

death, resurrection, afterlife,
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AFTERLIFE: THE HOPE OF THE RESURRECTION: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 32ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE C, 2022

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The Afterlife reality or experience is not just a Christian hope of the resurrection of Christ Jesus through the action of the Holy Spirit. It is an existential reality of our human life on earth. It is a religious or spiritual reality that every religious faith holds onto. To give full meaning to our hard and miserable human existence.

GOD'S MERCY, GOD'S GRACE, REPENTANCE
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GOD’S MERCY FINDS US ALWAYS: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 31ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE C, 2022

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One of the beauties of our Christian faith is the mercy of God that always finds us wretched sinners when we are lost. God’s mercy finds and reaches us profoundly more than we can ever imagine. The nature and essence of God is mercy. This mercy is the saving and amazing grace that always finds and saves us even when we are spiritually dead, lost or weak.

mission, humility, prayer
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THE MISSION OF CHRIST IS ONE OF HUMILITY AND PRAYER: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 23RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE C; MISSION SUNDAY 2022.

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The mission of Christ continues through our Christian vocation to witness to the Kingdom of God with humility and prayer. It is a mission where God calls the humble, the weak and the insignificant to shame the proud, strong and important.
Christ’s mission is the humble acceptance of the need for God in our lives. The admittance that we are naughty and God is all. The mission of God (Missio Dei) is the encouragement of God to us to be good on earth as followers of his Son Jesus Christ.

prayer, pereseverance, faith
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PERSEVERANCE IN PRAYER: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 29TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE C, 2022

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The readings of this Sunday present us with a clear picture of persistence and perseverance through faith in prayer and the final success that this achieves. Especially, amidst the hopelessness and the powerlessness of life’s situations around us.

gratitude, thanksgiving, worship
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GRATITUDE: THE PUREST FORM OF WORSHIP: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 28TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE C, 2022  

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Gratitude or an act of thanksgiving seems like something very insignificant. However, it is the purest form of worship of God. It is the most important way of expression that sustain our human relationships as well as our relationship with God.

We must not only appreciate people when we need something from them but also after receiving it from them. Gratitude or appreciation has many faces: acts, gestures, words, things and even thoughts.

faith, prayer, live
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A LIVING FAITH IS AN ACTIVE FAITH AGAINST ALL ODDS: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS: 27TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE C, 2022

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Living faith is an active faith against all odds of life. It is an indomitable faith that overcomes all contraries of life trusting the absolute mercy, grace and providence of God.  Indeed, faith is one of the superlative forces or energies of conviction in God, on the earth and in heaven that can change, transform or overcome any and everything that comes on us.

God, love, money
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LOVE OF GOD OR MONEY: TWO PARALLEL WAYS: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 25TH ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE C, 2022

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The gospel of today presents us with an eternal truth: the love of God and money are two parallel ways. They cannot or will never meet or cross each other. We are either for God or for the world. Hence, it presents us towards the end with some crucial lines of a hard or brunt truth: “No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”