dying, life, service
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MEANING IN DYING: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS: 5TH SUNDAY IN LENT, CYCLE B, 2024

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In life, someone argues, there is meaning in dying in loving services for others. True life’s meaning is found when we live for others. This is because there is an absurdity that comes with life. When this sense of absurdness engulfs us with a sense of uncertainty and insecurity life becomes meaningless. In a moment like this, we can only find fulfillment and a sense of meaningfulness in the service of others through God.

AMAZING AND REJOICING GRACE: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 4TH SUNDAY OF LENT, CYCLE B, 2024
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AMAZING AND REJOICING GRACE: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 4TH SUNDAY OF LENT, CYCLE B, 2024

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The Christian life is full of an amazing and rejoicing grace in God when our souls meet with true repentance of sins and embrace the unfathomable mercy of God. No one is a Christian because he or she merits being one. It is all grace and nothing but grace. This is the most humble fact we must be conscious of daily.

love, House of God
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DO YOU LOVE GOD? CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS: 3RD SUNDAY OF LENT, CYCLE B, 2024

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God is love (1 John 4:8). Hence, to love is not only to be religious and spiritual but also to be God-like. Inarguably, love is at the basis of our religious teaching, preaching, doctrines, theology, philosophy, ideology, practices, and even rituals and rites. If these are devoid of love then religion is as useless as any human venture.

tests, sacrifices, glory,
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LENT: TEST, SACRIFICE AND GLORY: THE JOY OF RESURRECTION: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS: 2ND SUNDAY OF LENT, CYCLE B, 2024

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The readings of this Sunday point us to the necessary pain, suffering, and sacrifice of Lent. These lead to the renewal or transformation of our spirit, soul, and body. They invite us to be courageous when making a sacrifice for God. As our sacrifice renews God’s blessings upon us and strengthens our will to go through life bear with patience our crosses.

desert, experience, lent
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LENT IS A DESERT EXPERIENCE: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 1ST SUNDAY OF LENT, CYCLE B, 2024

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Lent is a desert experience of a long retreat of silence, reflection, meditation, and prayer. We all need this desert experience. Every Lenten season is a journey of grace into the desert. There are fewer distractions. It is quieter and clearer in the desert.

images, services, sufferings
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THE IMAGE OF LIFE AND SPIRIT OF SERVICE: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS: 5TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE B, 2024

ByOnuh

We all have different images of life as we experience, however amidst the absurdity of life, its meaning can be found in selfless acts or services to others.  Someone, once argued that the only meaning of life is through the service of others.

AUTHORITY, POWER, SERVICE,
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JESUS´ AUTHORITY AND POWER: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS: 4TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE B, 2024

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Jesus´ authority and power are one to heal the broken humanity and to cast out evil in all its forms of existence either as demonic possessions, satanic influences, powers, and principalities in the low and high places. As well as to restore integrity and dignity in decent living through his teaching and preaching. 

repentance, renewal, vocation,
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REPENTANCE FOR RENEWAL: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS, 3RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE B, 2024

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A Christendom without reformation or renewal is doomed. This conversion or repentance is a radical renewal of faith, lifestyle, and commitment to God. Our vocation to know, to love, and to serve God begins with a call to authentic or genuine conversion.

VOCATION, CALLING, LIFE,
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VOCATION IS A CALL BY NAME: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS: 2ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE B, 2024

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Life is a vocation and it is one which God calls us by name! Our vocation is to know God, love Him, and serve Him in our fellow brothers and sisters. Every state of our life is a calling from God. We are called to life when we were born. We do not exist by accident. We were also called to the Christian life in Christ Jesus when we were baptized. We have specific vocations to marital life, consecrated life, or to live life in singlehood. Whatever our state or calling, living fully within God´s plan for us is a vocation. A life, God intended for us to know, to love, and to serve Him in others.

God for all, christ, God
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IN CHRIST: GOD IS FOR ALL! CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: EPIPHANY OF THE LORD, CYCLE B, 2024

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The Feast of Epiphany means that in Christ Jesus, God is for all people and nations without exclusion. The Greek word Epiphany (επιφάνεια), means appearance or manifestation. In theological terms, Epiphany means the appearance or manifestation of Christ to the world after his birth.

Indeed, God is not just manifested to a small group of people called Israel. With the visit of the Magi, he is being revealed to all the people of earth and nations. This manifestation of God, Himself to us in so many ways. It is called a theophany. At the fullness of time, the revelation of his only Begotten Son: Jesus Christ was its climax.