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Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 12, 2021 — Year B Readings: Is 50:5-9a / Ps 116 / Jas 2:14-18 / Mk 8:27-35 by Rev. Nixon Negparanon, Pastor There is a story about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on a camping trip. As they lay sleeping one night, Holmes woke […]
READ MORETwenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time September 5, 2021 — Year B Readings: Is 35:4-7a / Ps 146 / Jas 2:1-5 / Mk 7:31-37 by Rev. Nixon Negparanon, Pastor Once there was a little old man. His eyes blinked, and his hands trembled. When he ate, he clattered the silverware distressingly; […]
READ MORETwenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time August 29, 2021 – Year B Readings: Dt 4:1-2, 6-8 / Ps 15 / Jas 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27 / Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 by Deacon Barry Welch, Guest Homilist Well, these Pharisees – what’s the deal with them? I think one of their major purposes […]
READ MORETwenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time August 22, 2021 — Year B Readings: Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b / Ps 34 / Eph 5:21-32 / Jn 6:60-69 by Rev. Nixon Negparanon, Pastor How do we act when we hear a doctrine or a teaching that is difficult to understand and difficult to […]
READ MORESolemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary August 15, 2021 — Year B Readings: Rv 11:19a, 12:1-6a, 10ab / Ps 45 / 1 Cor 15:20-27 / Lk 1:39-56 by Rev. Nixon Negparanon, Pastor There is an old story about a workman on scaffolding high above the nave of […]
READ MORENineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 8, 2021 — Year B Readings: 1 Kgs 19:4-8 / Ps 34 / Eph 4:30 – 5:2 / Jn 6:41-51 by Rev. Nixon Negparanon, Pastor There is a story I heard when I was in the Philippines: A young boy from a very remote […]
READ MOREEighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 1, 2021 — Year B Readings: Ex 16:2-4, 12-15 / Ps 78 / Eph 4:17, 20-24 / Jn 6:24-35 by Rev. Nixon Negparanon, Pastor In last Sunday’s gospel, we read about the way Jesus fed a very large crowd of people with very limited […]
READ MORESeventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 25, 2021 — Year B Readings: 2 Kgs 4:42-44 / Ps 145 / Eph 4:1-6 / Jn 6:1-15 by Rev. Mr. Eddie Craig, Permanent Deacon A well-known pastor and faith healer traveled around the country, going to various places, and doing revivals. He came […]
READ MORESixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 18, 2021 — Year B Readings: Jer 23:1-6 / Ps 23 / Eph 2:13-18 / Mk 6:30-34 by Rev. Nixon Negparanon, Pastor In our first reading, the prophet Jeremiah reveals God’s displeasure with the leaders of Israel at that time, because they thought only […]
READ MOREFifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 11, 2021 — Year B Readings: Am 7:12-15 / Ps 85 / Eph 1:3-14 / Mk 6:7-13 by Rev. Nixon Negparanon, Pastor There is a story about St. Peter, who, one day was very busy at the gate of Heaven due to the numerous […]
READ MOREEleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time June 13, 2021 — Year B Readings: Ez 17:22-24 / Ps 92 / 2 Cor 5:6-10 / Mk 4:26-34 by Rev. Mr. Eddie Craig, Permanent Deacon In today’s gospel, we join Jesus and the disciples, and Jesus is preaching to the crowd. We are told […]
READ MOREThe Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ June 6, 2021 — Year B Readings: Ex 24:3-8 / Ps 116 / Heb 9:11-15 / Mk 14:12-16, 22-26 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor Yesterday, one of the headlines was about Cathy Boone, a 49-year-old homeless woman in Oregon. […]
READ MOREPentecost Sunday May 23, 2021 — Year B Readings: Acts 2:1-11 / Ps 104 / 1 Cor 12:3B-7, 12-13 / Jn 20:19-23 by Rev. Mr. Eddie Craig, Permanent Deacon On this day we celebrate the Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit on the disciples, which is also the birthday […]
READ MORESolemnity of the Ascension of the Lord May 16, 2021 — Year B Readings: Acts 1:1-11 / Ps 47 / Eph 1:17-23 / Mk 16:15-20 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor About five hundred years before our Lord Jesus was born in Bethlehem, there was a philosopher in ancient Greece by […]
READ MORESixth Sunday of Easter May 9, 2021 — Year B Readings: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 / Ps 98 / 1 Jn 4:7-10 / Jn 15:9-17 by Rev. Mr. Eddie Craig, Permanent Deacon Most of you who know me know also that my wife is a middle school music teacher. She […]
READ MOREFifth Sunday of Easter May 2, 2021 — Year B Readings: Acts 9:26-31 / Ps 22 / 1 Jn 3:18-24 / Jn 15:1-8 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor The other day, when I noticed that the percentage of my cell phone’s battery was down to 1%, I connected it immediately […]
READ MOREFourth Sunday of Easter April 25, 2021 — Year B Readings: Acts 4:8-12 / Ps 118 / 1 Jn 3:1-2 / Jn 10:11-18 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor At this morning’s first Mass, baby Theodora, whom I baptized a few months ago, was a little uneasy during the liturgy. Her […]
READ MOREThird Sunday of Easter April 18, 2021 — Year B Readings: Acts 3:13-15, 17-19 / Ps 4 / 1 Jn 2:1-5a / Lk 24:35-48 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor On the day that the Lord Jesus rose from the dead, He appeared to two of His followers walking on the […]
READ MORESunday of Divine Mercy April 11, 2021 — Year B Readings: Acts 4:32-35 / Ps 118 / 1 Jn 5:1-6 / Jn 20:19-31 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor A number of years ago early in my priesthood, when I was an assistant pastor in a big church in Manilla, I […]
READ MOREThe Resurrection of the Lord April 4, 2021 — Year B Readings: Acts 10:34a, 37-43 / Ps 118 / Col 3:1-4 / Jn 20:1-9 by Rev. Mr. Eddie Craig, Permanent Deacon Today we celebrate the glorious resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ! The tomb is empty! Jesus has destroyed death, […]
READ MOREFifth Sunday of Lent March 21, 2021 — Year B Readings: Jer 31:31-34 / Ps 51 / Heb 5:7-9 / Jn 12:20-33 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor All of us who have attended funerals in the past where there is a eulogy know that the friends and members of the […]
READ MOREFourth Sunday of Lent March 14, 2021 — Year B Readings: 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23 / Ps 137 / Eph 2:4-10 / Jn 3:14-21 by Rev. Mr. Eddie Craig, Permanent Deacon This, the Fourth Sunday of Lent, is also known as Laetare Sunday, from the first word of today’s antiphon: […]
READ MOREThird Sunday of Lent March 7, 2021 — Year B Readings: Ex 20:1-17 / Ps 19 / 1 Cor 1:22-25 / Jn 2:13-25 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor A story is told about two altar servers who, one Sunday morning, while waiting for the Mass to begin, noticed that the […]
READ MORESecond Sunday of Lent February 28, 2021 — Year B Readings: Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18 / Ps 116 / Rom 8:31b-34 / Mk 9:2-10 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor One of Chevrolet’s cars is named after the second fastest land animal in the world, the impala, which can run […]
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