GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS – 08/31/23 (Thursday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time)

From the Gospel according to MatthewMt 24:42-51 Jesus said to his disciples:“Stay awake!For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.Be sure of this: if the master of the househad known the hour of night when the thief was coming,he would have stayed awakeand not let his house be broken into.So too,

GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS – 08/30/23 (Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time)

From the Gospel according to MatthewMt 23:27-32 Jesus said,“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside,but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth.Even so, on the outside you appear righteous,but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing. “Woe to

GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS- 08/29/23 (Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist)

From the Gospel according to MarkMk 6:17-29 Herod was the one who had John the Baptist arrested and bound in prisonon account of Herodias,the wife of his brother Philip, whom he had married.John had said to Herod,“It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”Herodias harbored a grudge against himand wanted to kill

GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS- 08/28/23 (Memorial of Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church)

From the Gospel according to MatthewMt 23:13-22 Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.You lock the Kingdom of heaven before men.You do not enter yourselves,nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.You traverse sea and land

DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS!

DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS! In the apparition of Mary to the three children at Fatima, she gave a message for all of us. She tells us to change our lives and pray for the conversion of sinners. Our mother also reveals her immaculate heart to the children, pierced by thorns because of sins, and

KNOWING CHRIST – 08/27/23 (Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time)

From the Gospel according to MatthewMt 16:13-20 Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi andhe asked his disciples,“Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah,still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”Simon Peter

GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS – 08/26/23 (Saturday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time)

From the Gospel according to MatthewMt 23:1-12 Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying,“The scribes and the Phariseeshave taken their seat on the chair of Moses.Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you,but do not follow their example.For they preach but they do not practice.They tie up heavy burdens hard

GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS – 08/25/23 (Friday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time)

From the Gospel according to MatthewMt 22:34-40 When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees,they gathered together, and one of them,a scholar of the law, tested him by asking,“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”He said to him,“You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart,with all your soul,

GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS – 08/24/23 (Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle)

From the Gospel according to JohnJn 1:45-51 Philip found Nathanael and told him,“We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law,and also the prophets, Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth.”But Nathanael said to him,“Can anything good come from Nazareth?”Philip said to him, “Come and see.”Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said

GOSPEL REFLECTION OF POPE FRANCIS – 08/23/23 (Wednesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time)

From the Gospel according to MatthewMt 20:1-16 Jesus told his disciples this parable:“The Kingdom of heaven is like a landownerwho went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard.After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage,he sent them into his vineyard.Going out about nine o’clock,he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,and he