At a time when the Teachers of the Law and the Scribes and Pharisees are preoccupied with its letter,

Jesus does not abolish the Law but comes to give it a deeper meaning and insight.

He did not come to abolish but to fulfill the law.

It’s a fulfillment based on a proper understanding of the role of the law in enhancing the lives of believers.

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1 Kings 18:20-39*

So Ahab sent for all the people

 The Immaculate Heart of Mary signifies, The great purity and love of the heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary for God.

This purity is manifested in her “Yes” to the Father at the Incarnation.

Mary’s interior life and the beauties of her soul,

The attraction is the love of her Immaculate Heart for Jesus and for God, for humanity.

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2 Timothy 4:1-8

In the presence of God and Christ Jesus,

The very name ‘Barnabas’ meant” son of encouragement” or son of consolation.”

It is all about healing the sicknesses of our souls bringing us back to a life of hope,

cleansing us from all that make us impure, and driving out our internal demons of fear, hatred, and violence. 

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Acts 11:21b-26; 13:1-3

The hand of the Lord

This Heart calls to our heart. By handing ourselves over to him and with him,

to discover the fullness of love which alone is eternity and which alone sustains the world.”

Lord, like John the Beloved Disciple, rest my weary head on your heart,

so that I may know how real, how true, how fleshand-blood your love is for me.

‘They shall look on him whom they pierced.’ were the price of our salvation.

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Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9

I loved Israel

 After all, none of those who are pronounced ‘blessed’ are what the world would ordinarily regard as such.

Our pride hinders us from seeing that we are totally dependent on God.

All who strive to live the Beatitudes set by Christ in the Gospel are on the way to becoming “Blessed!”

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1 Kings 17:1-6

Now Elijah, the prophet from

We too ask the same question as the scribe,

‘Which of the commandments is the first of all?’

The Ten Commandments, They provide a way of life,

loving God was first and loving others followed from it.

When we are committed to love, we are not far from the kingdom of God.
 

 St. Norbert, bishop

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2 Timothy 2:8-15

Remember Christ Jesus,

With the fall of Adam and Eve in paradise.

God uses a lowly maiden, was full of grace declared her unconditional obedience to God’s holy will.

She, the sinless one, the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, would be the “cause of our joy”

The Savior would be born of The Woman whom the Archangel Gabriel will great “Ave Maria!”

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Genesis 3:9-15

Yahweh God called the man

The Saducees to try trapping Jesus with an awkward question.

Whatever we may think of death, we still believe in the ‘God of the living’.

That – as he says in the Gospel – he is the “God of the living and not of the dead”.

The resurrection of the dead is nothing like anything we can imagine.

He loves us that God will never let go of us.

 St. Boniface, bishop & martyr

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2 Timothy 1:1-3, 6-12

From Paul, apostle of Christ Jesus,

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2 Timothy 4:1-8

In the presence of God

Pharisees and Herodians, conspired together to trap Jesus,

They said: “Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?” .Should We Pay Taxes?

Should we pay our taxes?

If Jesus affirms Roman taxation, he will offend his followers.

If he rejects it, he will face charges of treason.

1st Reading: 2 Peter 3:12-15a, 17-18

As you wait for the day of God,