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24th Sunday Year B (13/09/2015) (Isaiah 50:5-9a – James 2:14-18 – Mk 8:27-35) God is a person – Christ Jesus – to be loved in our Neighbors! The Flemish theologian, Edward Schillebeeckx, radicalized Catholic Sacramentology – the understanding of sacraments – with his book, Christ the Sacrament of the Encounter with God. We approached the divine from “thing mentality” rather than relationships and personalism. But God is a person – Christ Jesus – and not a thing! We need to encounter him. When do, an “encounter” frees God from being a thing and makes him a person we meet and relate with; in fact, heRead More →

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From God’s Universalism to Human Universalism: Can you join the Project? Isaiah, which means “God saves” or “God is Salvation,” proclaims what will happen at the dawn of the Messianic age: the restoration of social justice and therapeutic phenomena. In a word, there will be “shalom” – wholeness; all our “brokennesses” will be restored, because God will dwell amongst his people, bringing them Salvation. The healing of a deaf and dumb man, in today’s gospel, manifests the dawning of the Messianic age – Jesus is the Messiah promised by God, and each miracle he performed was a confirmation by God that Jesus was and remainsRead More →

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This website and its offerings are a part of my desire to give God the glory! Over the next few weeks I will endeavour to post a number of homilies that may be of some value to Him and to each of you who visit this site.Read More →

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Readings and Homily for 21st Sunday, August 23, 2015… FIRST READING Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b We will serve the Lord, for he is our God. A reading from the Book of Joshua Joshua gathered together all the tribes of Israel at Shechem, summoning their elders, their leaders, their judges, and their officers. When they stood in ranks before God, Joshua addressed all the people: “If it does not please you to serve the LORD, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your fathers served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose country you are now dwelling. As for me andRead More →

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No God, No Identity! Advent is the period when we prepare for the coming of Christ as a child at Christmas. It is also the time in which we remember that Christ did come, once upon a time, as a child born in Bethlehem, around 2000 years ago. These two dimensions of preparation and remembrance will be incomplete if we failed to realize that Jesus will also come back to us as judge either at the moment of our death or at the end of time, if we happened to be alive during his second coming. The attitude of preparation rather than waiting is whatRead More →

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If this website is up and running, it is thanks to Fred and Marianne Holtslag, who updated my website ignoramus to a mini-expert within hours of generous sharing of intelligence! To them I say: Merci beaucoup!Read More →