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Previous comments (August of 2017)
- 2017-08-31: Thursday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Mt 24:42-51: “So too, you also must be prepared” Albert TAULÉ i Viñas (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-30: Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Mt 23,27-32: «Woe to you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!» Lluís ROQUÉ i Roqué (Manresa, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-29: August 29th: Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist 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)
- 2017-08-28: Monday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Mt 23:13-22: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the Kingdom of heaven before men” Marc VAILLOT (París, France)
- 2017-08-27: Sunday 21st (A) in Ordinary Time Mt 16,13-20: «What do people say of the Son of Man? Who do they say I am?» Joaquim MESEGUER García (Rubí, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-26: Saturday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 23:1-12: “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” Antoni CAROL i Hostench (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-25: Friday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 22:34-40: “You shall love the Lord, your God... You shall love your neighbor as yourself” Pere CALMELL i Turet (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-24: August 24th: Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle Jn 1:45-51: “Come and see.” Christoph BOCKAMP (Bonn, Germany)
- 2017-08-23: Wednesday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 20:1-16: “The last will be first, and the first will be last.” Antoni CAROL i Hostench (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-22: Tuesday of the Twentieth Week 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)
- 2017-08-21: Monday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 19,16-22: «What good work must I do to receive eternal life?» Óscar MAIXÉ i Altés (Roma, Italy)
- 2017-08-20: Sunday 20th (A) in Ordinary Time Mt 15,21-28: «Sir, even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their master's table» Joan SERRA i Fontanet (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-19: Saturday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 19:13-15: “Children were brought to Jesus that he might lay his hands on them and pray.” Antoni CAROL i Hostench (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-18: Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 19:3-12: “What God has joined together, man must not separate.” Roger J. LANDRY (Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States)
- 2017-08-17: Thursday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 18:21—19:1: “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him?” Joan BLADÉ i Piñol (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-16: Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 18,15-20: «If your brother or sister has sinned against you, go and point out the fault (...). Where two or three are gathered in my Name, I am there among them» Pedro-José YNARAJA i Díaz (El Montanyà, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-15: August 15th: Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Lc 1:39-56: "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my Savior" Josep ALEGRE (Tarragona, Spain)
- 2017-08-14: Monday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 17:22-27: “Jesus and his disciples were gathering in Galilee” Joaquim PETIT Llimona, L.C. (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-13: Sunday 19th (A) in Ordinary Time Mt 14,22-33: «He began to sink. So he cried out, ‘Lord, save me!’» Joaquim MESEGUER García (Rubí, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-12: Saturday of the Eighteenth Week 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)
- 2017-08-11: Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 16:24-28: “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me” Pedro IGLESIAS Martínez (Rubí, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-10: August 10th: Feast of Saint Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr Jn 12:24-26: “Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be” Antoni CAROL i Hostench (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-09: Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 15:21-28: “O woman, great is your faith!” Jordi CASTELLET i Sala (Sant Hipòlit de Voltregà, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-08: Tuesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 14:22-36: “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.” Lluc TORCAL (Santa Maria de Poblet, Tarragona, Spain)
- 2017-08-07: Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 14:13-21: “Looking up to heaven” Xavier ROMERO i Galdeano (Cervera, Lleida, Spain)
- 2017-08-06: August 6th: Transfiguration of Our Lord (A) Mt 17,1-9: «This is my Son, my Chosen one» Joan SERRA i Fontanet (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-05: Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 14:1-12: “Herod the tetrarch heard of the reputation of Jesus” Joan Pere PULIDO i Gutiérrez (Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Spain)
- 2017-08-04: Friday of the Seventeenth Week 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)
- 2017-08-03: Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 13:47-53: “They haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away” Ferran JARABO i Carbonell (Agullana, Girona, Spain)
- 2017-08-02: Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 13:44-46: “Out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” Enric CASES i Martín (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-01: Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 13,36-43: "Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field" Iñaki BALLBÉ i Turu (Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain)