Who Do You Say That I Am?

06-29-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Albert

Today's Gospel Reading offers us one of the Most profound questions in all Scripture, asked by Jesus to his disciples:'' Who do you say that I am?'' This is a basic question that I believe all followers of Jesus must answer and not just once but at various times in our life: Who do we say that Jesus is? For us and for our World? Every person on this planet believes something about God. But it can vary a great deal.

Even we Christians can believe different things about the one God whom we all worship. Not only that but our understanding of God, our theology can change over our lifetime. In fact, it should change as we grow in our faith. But the reason why this question is so important. because how we answer this question directly affects how we live out our faith and how we live out our lives.

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The Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ

06-22-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Albert

Today, we are celebrating the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. This special Feast is celebrated in remembrance of Jesus who gave His life for our salvation and commanded us to celebrate the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist in his memory. The Feast sums up three important confessions about our Faith. First is that God became physically present in the person of Christ, True God and True Man. Secondly, God continues to be present in His people as to form the Mystical Body of Christ in his Church. And thirdly, the presence of God under the form of bread and wine is made available to us on the altar at Mass and preserved there for our nourishment and worship. Our liturgy today recalls the scriptural origins of this devotion.

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The Mystery of the Trinity

06-15-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Albert

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Trinity which is a mystery difficult to comprehend. in our daily life, we begin every one of our prayers, activities, programmes or works with the sign of the cross and call upon God, '' In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.'' Even though we remember the Trinity several times a day, it is difficult to comprehend the full meaning because the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit we invoke constitute a great Mystery. The Mystery of the Most Holy Trinity consists of this; the Father is God, The Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God and yet there are not three Gods, but only one God with three attributes.

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Pentecost: The Fulfillment of Easter and the Gift of the Holy Spirit

06-08-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Albert

At Christmas, God became incarnate. He came to share with us His participation in the divine life and in the grace of God. Easter is the feast of the Resurrection of the soul from sin and of the incorporation of man in the mystical body of the Eucharist. Pentecost is the feast of the visible mission of the Holy Spirit to the apostles, to the Church, to each Christian family and to each individual soul.

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The Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord

06-01-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Albert

The Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord commemorates the fortieth day after the Resurrection when Jesus ascended body and soul into Heaven and took His seat at the right hand of His Father. Only Jesus and His Blessed Mother have entered into the glories of Heaven, body and soul. Jesus' Ascension implies that He did so by His own authority and power. The Blessed Virgin Mary's Assumption implies that she entered Heaven, body and soul, by God's power and not her own.

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The Sixth Sunday of Easter: Love, Peace, and the Holy Spirit

05-25-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Albert

The Sixth Sunday of Easter invites us to reflect on the profound themes of love and the Holy Spirit, emphasizing that the true love is rooted in God and expressed through our actions. in Today's readings, love emerges as a central theme. As St. John reminds us, '' Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God''.

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The Commandment of Love: Following Christ's Example

05-18-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Albert

The time of the Gospel was the Last Supper, specifically, immediately after Judas had left the table to betray Jesus when he would go to the garden of Gethsemane. The end was near. Jesus had tried so hard to teach his disciples his message of love. This is his final effort with words, the next-to-last words of a man close to death.

Jesus says, "I will give you a new commandment; love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

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The Good Shepherd

05-11-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Albert

This Sunday is often called "Good Shepherd Sunday."

Jesus intended the beautiful parable of the Good Shepherd with its many consoling truths and promises for people of every century. The liturgy's primary aim is to portray the present, not the past, to give grace and life along with history.

The parable brings to our attention three consoling truths: Christ gives His life for His sheep; He remains with them constantly through the bond of grace; He will not rest content until there be but one flock and one shepherd.

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Recognizing the Risen Lord: A Journey of Faith and Conversion

05-04-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Albert

Today's Gospel shows Peter returning to his old way of life, trying, perhaps, to forget the disastrous events of the crucifixion of his Master. six other Apostles join him. Thomas the former doubter, the two hotheaded sons of zebedee, the faithful and loyal Nathaniel and two others who are not named. Although John mentions that ''it was now the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.

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Divine Mercy

04-27-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Albert

Today we celebrate the Second Sunday of Easter. The Church celebrates the Feast of Divine Mercy.

This is a fitting time to focus on God's forgiving love, the mercy poured out through the suffering, death, and resurrection of His Son, including the mercy He shows each one of us in ways too numerous to count.

Mercy means God's Heart desiring to alleviate our misery caused by personal sin. The "Good news" is that Jesus is the Divine Physician who came to heal the sickness of sin. As we receive His forgiveness, we are compelled by this love to trust Jesus and avoid sin in the future.

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Jesus is Alive!

04-20-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Albert

Dear People of God,

Christ Our Lord is risen today! Alleluia! Alleluia! Today, we celebrate the Resurrection of Christ! This event is the greatest event in our Catholic faith. It is through the resurrection that Christ defeated sin and death and opened for us the gates to eternal life. A journey that began sorrowfully on Ash Wednesday has ended joyfully today. Light has eventually overcome darkness, and we have seen the glory of Christ.

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The Divine Plan in Luke's Passion Narrative

04-13-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Albert

Luke's Gospel is the only one to report the exchange between Jesus and the Pharisees as Jesus enters Jerusalem. Jesus' response shows that this event, and those yet to come, are part of a divine plan. We hear this echoed again in Luke's description of the Last Supper when Jesus speaks of Judas's betrayal, saying that the Son of Man "goes as has been determined." Throughout Luke's Gospel, we see that Jesus' words and actions proclaim the Kingdom of God. This theme continues throughout the Passion narrative. Jesus appears to be in total command of events at the Passover meal as he hands over the kingdom to his disciples. He welcomes them to the Passover meal, announcing that this will be his last until the Kingdom of God is fulfilled.

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The Transformative Power of Mercy: Jesus and the Adulterous Woman

04-06-2025Weekly ReflectionFr. Albert

The Gospel is one of the great Jesus stories and perhaps one of the most controversial. The central piece in which the woman, who is a sinner, is accepted by Jesus and forgiven. She is shamed, paraded, humiliated under the sentence of death. Jesus pronounces a sentence of life and ongoing conversion. The focus of Christian reconciliation is the sinner, not the sin. Jesus risks the wrath of the Law, the leaders, and the hearers to free the unnamed woman, and He does so within the temple itself.

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