Homily of the Day

What’s So Special About Them

by Food For Thought January 25, 2013

What’s so special about the twelve apostles? They are really just common people, not even very educated. They were neither wealthy nor people who had positions in society. And yet, Jesus chose them and gave them authority to cast out…

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The Divine Physician

by Food For Thought January 24, 2013

When we are very sick, we try all means to get healed. We go to the best doctors, but sometimes this does not help. In our helplessness, we even try medicines which we heard have healed others even these are…

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From Worldly Entrapments

by Food For Thought January 23, 2013

The church leaders in power felt very threatened if their authority was questioned and that was the status quo for quite some time when Jesus was around. The Pharisees had imposed on the congregation that the Sabbath was a day…

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Repayment

by Food For Thought January 22, 2013

This gospel clearly defines that man is the apple of the eye of God. At the end of creation, God said it was good. It was good because it was all created for man. God wanted man to be happy,…

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Delight in the Lord

by Food For Thought January 21, 2013

There is a great deal of bridal or wedding spirituality in the Old Testament: that is, relating to God as to one’s spouse. To take just one example, in the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, God says: “You shall be…

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How Far Would You Go?

by Food For Thought January 18, 2013

In our Gospel today, we are told of four men who went out of their way to bring a paralytic man to Jesus. Because they could not carry the man into the house, they opened the roof and lowered the…

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Be Clean

by Food For Thought January 17, 2013

In Jesus’ time, leprosy was one of the most dreaded diseases. Thus lepers had to live on the outskirts of the towns, far from the population.
Jewish religion looked upon leprosy as God’s punishment, a kind of physical impurity which…

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Bringing Purpose Back to Sinners

by Food For Thought January 16, 2013

All men are afraid of death, be it physical death or emotional anguish caused by tragic events, etc. Our normal reaction to such events is one of sorrow or despair. But God invites us not to be sad nor be…

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Freedom From Evil Spirits

by Food For Thought January 15, 2013

It is clear that Jesus has authority over all the evil spirits. Evil spirits make people unhappy and slaves of all the concupiscence of the flesh. This gospel shows the great power of the Lord, God in the simple son…

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Into the Unknown!

by Food For Thought January 14, 2013

On the surface, the way Mark wrote today’s gospel sounds so simple: Jesus walked up to two pairs of brothers, told them to follow Him, and they did just that with no guarantees other than the mysterious promise to make…

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