Contemplating today's Gospel
Today's Gospel + homily (in 300 words)
Previous comments (August of 2008)
- 2008-08-31: Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) Mt 16:21-27: “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me” Vimal MSUSAI (Ranchi, Jharkhand, India)
- 2008-08-30: Saturday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Mt 25:14-30: “A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them” Albert SOLS i Lúcia (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2008-08-29: 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)
- 2008-08-28: 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)
- 2008-08-27: Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Mt 23:27-32: “"Woe to you, scribes 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: “Cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean.” 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: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) Mt 16:13-20: "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” Joaquim MESEGUER García (Rubí, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2008-08-23: 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)
- 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: “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)
- 2008-08-20: 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)
- 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: “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?” Óscar MAIXÉ i Altés (Roma, Italy)
- 2008-08-17: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) Mt 15:21-28: “Lord, even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters." Joan SERRA i Fontanet (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2008-08-16: 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)
- 2008-08-15: 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)
- 2008-08-14: 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)
- 2008-08-13: Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 18:15-20: "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault… Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of 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: “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)
- 2008-08-11: 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)
- 2008-08-10: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) Mt 14:22-33: “Beginning to sink, 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 you have faith the size of a mustard seed… Nothing will be impossible for you” Fidel CATALÁN i Catalán (Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2008-08-08: 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 (Ripollet, 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 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: “Looking up 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: “Herod the tetrarch heard of the reputation of Jesus” 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: "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)
