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 21st 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 21st in OrdinaryTime Mt 24,42-51: «So be alert» Albert TAULÉ i Viñas (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2008-08-27: Wednesday 21st 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 21st 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 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)
- 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 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)
- 2008-08-22: Friday 20th 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 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)
- 2008-08-20: 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)
- 2008-08-19: 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)
- 2008-08-18: 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)
- 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 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)
- 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 exults in God my savior!» Josep ALEGRE (Tarragona, Spain)
- 2008-08-14: 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)
- 2008-08-13: Wednesday 19th 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 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)
- 2008-08-11: Monday 19th 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 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)
- 2008-08-08: Friday 18th 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 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)
- 2008-08-06: 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)
- 2008-08-05: 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)
- 2008-08-04: Monday 18th 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 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)
- 2008-08-01: 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)
