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33rd Sundayof OT, year 'C' / 33e dimanche du TO, année 'C'

2016-10-01T11:34:39Z

Ml.3,19-20a Ps.97 2.Th.3,7-12 Lk21 5-19 33 rd. Sunday Year 'C “Jesus said 'Everything you are admiring will one day be destroyed.” Jesus surprises us with his Truth , he isn't the demagogue who promises us lovely things we shan't ever have. Jesus is realistic, he knows how to tell us how our road will never be an easy one. Humanity has the power to sabotage, accumulating violence upon violence, disaster upon disaster. Like Jesus at his Crucifixion, his whipping and the (…)

- Week/Semaine 31 - 34

32nd Sunday of OT year 'C'/ 32e dimanche du TO, année 'C'

2016-09-14T19:48:17Z

2 Mc. 7 1-2.9-14 Ps.16 2 Th 2 16-3,5 Lk.20,27-38 32^nd Sunday year 'C' “Some Sadducee, -those who argue that there is no resurrection- approached him and they put this question to him. Master, Moses prescribed for us, if a man's married brother dies childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother.” Once again Jesus introduces us into salvation by opening up his detractors so as to get to the bottom of things. He always respects those present to him by (…)

- Week/Semaine 31 - 34

31st Sunday of OT year 'C' / 31e dimanche du TO année 'C'

2016-09-13T19:06:39Z

Sg.11,23-12 2 Ps.144 2 TH.1,11-2,2 Lk.19,1-10 31^st Sunday year 'C' “Jesus entered Jericho and was going through the town and suddenly a man whose name Zacchaeus made his appearance ; he was one of the senior tax collectors and a wealthy man. He kept trying to see where Jesus was, but he was too short and could not see for the crowd.” Zacchaeus saw crowds of people gathering together at the road sie to see Jesus as he passed by. He was little and was unable to catch a glimpse of (…)

- Week/Semaine 31 - 34

30th Sunday of OT, year 'C' / 30e dimanche du TO, année 'C'

2016-09-13T19:00:21Z

Si.35,12-14.16-18 Ps.33 2 Tm.4,6-8.16-18 Lk.18,9-14 30^th Sunday year 'C' "Jesus spoke the following parable to some people who prided themselves on being upright and despised everyone else. Two men went up tot he temple to pray, one aPharisee, teh otehr a tax collector. The Pharisee stood tehre and said this prayer to himself, 'I thank you, God, that i am not grasping, unjiust, adulterous like eeryone else, and particularly that i m not like this tax colector (…)

- Week/Semaine 21 - 30

29th Sunday of OT, year 'C' / 29e dimanche du TO, année 'C'

2016-09-11T18:52:01Z

Ex.17,8-13 Ps.120 2 Tm.3,14-4,2 Lk.18,1-8 29^th Sunday, year 'C' "Jesus told them a parable abut the need to pray continually and to never lose hart. There was a judge in a certain town, he said, who had neither fear for God nor respect for anyone. In the same town there was also a widow who kept on coming to him and saying 'I want justice from you against my enemy!' In order to underline how important it is to pray, Jesus gives us a parable that speaks of perseverance of (…)

- Week/Semaine 21 - 30

28th Sunday of OT, year 'C' / 28e dimanche du TO, année 'C'

2016-09-11T16:48:42Z

2R.5,14-17 Ps.97 2 Tm.2,8-13 Lk.17,11-19 28^th Sunday, year 'C' “Now it happened that on the way to Jerusalem he was travelling in the borderlands of Samaria and Galilee. As he entered one of the villages, tn me suffering from leprosy came to his encounter.” In Jesus' time, lepers had to cry 'Impure! Impure!' When they had to enter the village. They had to live far from the human community. As he goes into the village Jesus hears 'Jesus, Master, have mercy upon us!' There are ten (…)

- Week/Semaine 21 - 30

26th Sunday of OT, year C / 26e dimanche du TO, année C

2016-07-20T15:25:42Z

Am.6,1a 4-7 Ps.145 1 Tm.6,11-16 Lk.16,1-31 26^th Sunday OT year 'C' "There was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and feasts magnificently every day. And at his gate there used to lie a poor man called Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to fill himself with what fell from the rich man's table; Even dogs came and licked his sores. Now it happened that the poor man died and was carried away by the angles into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was (…)

- Week/Semaine 21 - 30

27th Sunday of OT, year 'C / 27e dimanche du TO, année 'C'

2016-07-20T11:33:39Z

Ha.1,2-3.2,2-4 Ps.94 2 Tm.1,6-8.13-14 Lk.17,5-10 27^th Sunday of Ordinary Time, year 'C' "The apostles said to the Lord 'Increase our faith. The Lord replied 'If you had faith like a mustard seed you could say to the sycamore tree 'Be uprooted and it would obey you. When you have done all you will have been told, say 'We are useless servants, we have done no more than our duty." Jesus doesn't think in the way of locking his servants into a work that turns them to despair. How (…)

- Week/Semaine 21 - 30

25th Sunday of OT, year 'C' / 25e dimanche du TO, année' C'

2016-07-19T18:03:10Z

Am.8,4-7 Ps.112 1 Tm.2,1-8 Lk.16,1-13 25^th Sunday Ordinary Time year 'C' "Jesus also said to his disciples 'There was rich man and he had a steward who was denounced to him for being wasteful with his property. He called for the man and said' What is this I hear about you? Draw me up an account of your stewardship because you are not to be my steward any longer.' Then the steward said to himself, 'Now that the master is taking the steward-ship from me, what am I to do? Dig. I am (…)

- Week/Semaine 21 - 30

24th Sunday OT year 'C' / 24e dimanche du TO année' C'

2016-06-29T10:56:47Z

Ex.32,7-11.13-14 Ps;50 1 Tm.1,12-17 Lk.15,1-32(1-10) 24^th Sunday OT year 'C' "The tax collectors and sinners, however, were all crowding round to listen to him,and the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying 'This man welcomes sinners and eats with them'. We ask for the grace to discover the tender mercy of the Heart of our God and we ardently beg God to become merciful as our heavenly Father is merciful. This is a very long road to have to journey on and we contemplate God (…)

- Week/Semaine 21 - 30