Contemplating today's Gospel
Today's Gospel + homily (in 300 words)
Previous comments (August of 2007)
- 2007-08-31: Friday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Mt 25:1-13: “Amen, I say to you, I do not know you.” Joan Ant. MATEO i García (Tremp, Lleida, Spain)
- 2007-08-30: 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)
- 2007-08-29: August 29th: Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist Mc 6:17-29: “John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” Josep Mª MASSANA i Mola OFM (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2007-08-28: Tuesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Mt 23:23-26: “Cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean.” Austin NORRIS (Mumbai, India)
- 2007-08-27: 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)
- 2007-08-26: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (C) Lc 13:22-30: "Lord, will only a few people be saved?" Pedro IGLESIAS Martínez (Ripollet, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2007-08-25: 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)
- 2007-08-24: August 24th: Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle Jn 1:45-51: “Come and see.” Christoph BOCKAMP (Bonn, Germany)
- 2007-08-23: Thursday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 22:1-14: “Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast” David AMADO i Fernández (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2007-08-22: 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)
- 2007-08-21: 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)
- 2007-08-20: Monday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 19:16-22: “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?” Óscar MAIXÉ i Altés (Roma, Italy)
- 2007-08-19: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C) Lc 12:49-53: “Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth?” Isidre SALUDES i Rebull (Alforja, Tarragona, Spain)
- 2007-08-18: 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)
- 2007-08-17: 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)
- 2007-08-16: 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)
- 2007-08-15: 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)
- 2007-08-14: Tuesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14: “In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.” Valentí ALONSO i Roig (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2007-08-13: 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)
- 2007-08-12: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C) Lc 12:32-48: «You also must be ready, for the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect» Melcior QUEROL i Solà (Ribes de Freser, Girona, Spain)
- 2007-08-11: Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 17:14-20: “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed… Nothing will be impossible for you” Fidel CATALÁN i Catalán (Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2007-08-10: 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)
- 2007-08-09: Thursday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 16:13-23: "You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do" Joaquim MESEGUER García (Rubí, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2007-08-08: Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 15:21-28: “O woman, great is your faith!” Jordi CASTELLET i Sala (Vic, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2007-08-07: 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)
- 2007-08-06: August 6th: Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord (B) Mc 9:2-10: «Rabbi, it is good that we are here!» Ignasi NAVARRI i Benet (La Seu d'Urgell, Lleida, Spain)
- 2007-08-05: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C) Lc 12:13-21: “Though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions” Jordi PASCUAL i Bancells (Salt, Girona, Spain)
- 2007-08-04: 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)
- 2007-08-03: Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 13:54-58: "A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and in his own house" Jordi POU i Sabater (Sant Jordi Desvalls, Girona, Spain)
- 2007-08-02: 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)
- 2007-08-01: 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)
