Contemplating today's Gospel
Today's Gospel + homily (in 300 words)
Previous comments (August of 2018)
- 2018-08-31: Friday 21st in Ordinary Time Mt 25,1-13: «Truly, I do not know you» Joan Ant. MATEO i García (Tremp, Lleida, Spain)
- 2018-08-30: Thursday 21st in OrdinaryTime Mt 24,42-51: «So be alert» Albert TAULÉ i Viñas (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-29: August 29th: Beheading of John the Baptist, martyr Mc 6,17-29: «For John had told him, ‘It is not right for you to live with your brother's wife’» Josep Mª MASSANA i Mola OFM (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-28: Tuesday 21st in Ordinary Time Mt 23,23-26: «Purify the inside first, then the outside too will be purified» Austin NORRIS (Mumbai, India)
- 2018-08-27: Monday 21st in Ordinary Time Mt 23,13-22: «Woe to you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom of heaven in people's faces» Raimondo M. SORGIA Mannai OP (San Domenico di Fiesole, Florencia, Italy)
- 2018-08-26: Sunday 21st (B) in Ordinary Time Jn 6,60-69: «Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life» Miquel VENQUE i To (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-25: Saturday 20th in Ordinary Time Mt 23,1-12: «Whoever makes himself great shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be made great» Antoni CAROL i Hostench (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-24: August 24th: Bartholomew, apostle Jn 1,45-51: «Come and see» Christoph BOCKAMP (Bonn, Germany)
- 2018-08-23: Thursday 20th in Ordinary Time Mt 22,1-14: «I have prepared a banquet, slaughtered my fattened calves and other animals, and now everything is ready; come then, to the wedding feast» David AMADO i Fernández (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-22: Wednesday 20th in Ordinary Time Mt 20,1-16: «The last will be first, the first will be last» Antoni CAROL i Hostench (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-21: Tuesday 20th in Ordinary Time Mt 19,23-30: «It will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven... Who, then, can be saved?» Fernando PERALES i Madueño (Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-20: Monday 20th in Ordinary Time Mt 19,16-22: «What good work must I do to receive eternal life?» Óscar MAIXÉ i Altés (Roma, Italy)
- 2018-08-19: Sunday 20th (B) in Ordinary Time Jn 6,51-58: «I am the living bread which has come from heaven; whoever eats of this bread will live forever» Antoni CAROL i Hostench (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-18: Saturday 19th in Ordinary Time Mt 19,13-15: «Little children were brought to Jesus that He might lay his hands on them with a prayer» Antoni CAROL i Hostench (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-17: Friday 19th in Ordinary Time Mt 19,3-12: «Let no one separate what God has joined» Roger J. LANDRY (Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States)
- 2018-08-16: Thursday 19th in Ordinary Time Mt 18,21—19,1: «Lord, how many times must I forgive the offenses of my brother or sister?» Joan BLADÉ i Piñol (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-15: August 15th: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Lc 1,39-56: «My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit exults in God my savior!» Josep ALEGRE (Tarragona, Spain)
- 2018-08-14: Tuesday 19th in Ordinary Time Mt 18,1-5.10.12-14: «It is the same with your Father in heaven: there they don't want even one of these little ones to be lost» Valentí ALONSO i Roig (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-13: Monday 19th in Ordinary Time Mt 17,22-27: «When they were together in Galilee» Joaquim PETIT Llimona, L.C. (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-12: Sunday 19th (B) in Ordinary Time Jn 6,41-51: «No one can come to me unless he is drawn by the Father» Lluc TORCAL (Santa Maria de Poblet, Tarragona, Spain)
- 2018-08-11: Saturday 18th in Ordinary Time Mt 17,14-20: «If only you had faith the size of a mustard seed (...), nothing would be impossible to you» Fidel CATALÁN i Catalán (Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-10: August 10th: St. Lawrence, martyr Jn 12,24-26: «Whoever wants to serve me, let him follow me and wherever I am, there shall my servant be also» Antoni CAROL i Hostench (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-09: Thursday 18th in Ordinary Time Mt 16,13-23: «You are their king not as God does, but as people do» Joaquim MESEGUER García (Rubí, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-08: Wednesday 18th in Ordinary Time Mt 15,21-28: «Woman, how great is your faith!» Jordi CASTELLET i Sala (Sant Hipòlit de Voltregà, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-07: Tuesday 18th in Ordinary Time Mt 14,22-36: «Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you walking on the water» Lluc TORCAL (Santa Maria de Poblet, Tarragona, Spain)
- 2018-08-06: August 6th: Transfiguration of Our Lord (B) Mc 9,2-10: «Master, it is good that we are here» Ignasi NAVARRI i Benet (La Seu d'Urgell, Lleida, Spain)
- 2018-08-05: Sunday 18th (B) in Ordinary Time Jn 6,24-35: «‘Give us this bread always’. ‘I am the bread of life’» Joaquim FONT i Gassol (Igualada, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2018-08-04: Saturday 17th in Ordinary Time Mt 14,1-12: «The news about Jesus reached King Herod» Joan Pere PULIDO i Gutiérrez (Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Spain)
- 2018-08-03: Friday 17th in Ordinary Time Mt 13,54-58: «The only place where prophets are not welcome is their hometown and in their own family» Jordi POU i Sabater (Sant Jordi Desvalls, Girona, Spain)
- 2018-08-02: Thursday 17th in Ordinary Time Mt 13,47-53: «They gather the good fish in buckets, but throw the worthless ones away» Ferran JARABO i Carbonell (Agullana, Girona, Spain)
- 2018-08-01: Wednesday 17th in Ordinary Time Mt 13,44-46: «He goes and sells everything he has, in order to buy that field» Enric CASES i Martín (Barcelona, Spain)