Contemplating today's Gospel
Today's Gospel + homily (in 300 words)
Previous comments (August of 2008)
- 2008-08-31: Sunday 22nd (A) in Ordinary Time Mt 16,21-27: «If you want to follow me, deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me» Joaquim MESEGUER García (Rubí, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2008-08-30: Saturday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Mt 25,14-30: «Someone, before going abroad, summoned his servants to entrust his property to them» Albert SOLS i Lúcia (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2008-08-29: 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)
- 2008-08-28: Thursday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Mt 24,42-51: «So be alert» Albert TAULÉ i Viñas (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2008-08-27: 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)
- 2008-08-26: Tuesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Mt 23,23-26: «Purify the inside first, then the outside too will be purified» Austin NORRIS (Mumbai, India)
- 2008-08-25: 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)
- 2008-08-24: 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)
- 2008-08-23: Saturday of the Twentieth Week 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)
- 2008-08-22: 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)
- 2008-08-21: Thursday of the Twentieth Week 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)
- 2008-08-20: Wednesday of the Twentieth Week 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)
- 2008-08-19: 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)
- 2008-08-18: 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)
- 2008-08-17: 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)
- 2008-08-16: Saturday of the Nineteenth Week 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)
- 2008-08-15: August 15th: 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)
- 2008-08-14: Thursday of the Nineteenth Week 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)
- 2008-08-13: 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)
- 2008-08-12: Tuesday of the Nineteenth Week 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)
- 2008-08-11: Monday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 17,22-27: «When they were together in Galilee» Joaquim PETIT Llimona, L.C. (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2008-08-10: 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)
- 2008-08-09: 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)
- 2008-08-08: Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 16,24-28: «If you want to follow me, deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me» Pedro IGLESIAS Martínez (Rubí, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2008-08-07: 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)
- 2008-08-06: 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)
- 2008-08-05: Tuesday of the Eighteenth Week 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)
- 2008-08-04: Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 14,13-21: «Raised his eyes to heaven» Xavier ROMERO i Galdeano (Cervera, Lleida, Spain)
- 2008-08-03: Sunday 18th (A) in Ordinary Time Mt 14,13-21: «Bring them here to me» Roger J. LANDRY (Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States)
- 2008-08-02: Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 14,1-12: «The news about Jesus reached King Herod» Joan Pere PULIDO i Gutiérrez (Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Spain)
- 2008-08-01: 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)