Contemplating today's Gospel
Today's Gospel + homily (in 300 words)
Previous comments (August of 2012)
- 2012-08-31: Friday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Mt 25,1-13: «Truly, I do not know you» Joan Ant. MATEO i García (Tremp, Lleida, Spain)
- 2012-08-30: Thursday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Mt 24,42-51: «So be alert» Albert TAULÉ i Viñas (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2012-08-29: 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)
- 2012-08-28: 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)
- 2012-08-27: 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)
- 2012-08-26: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Jn 6,60-69: «Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life» Miquel VENQUE i To (Solsona, Lleida, Spain)
- 2012-08-25: 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)
- 2012-08-24: August 24th: Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle Jn 1,45-51: «Come and see» Christoph BOCKAMP (Bonn, Germany)
- 2012-08-23: 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)
- 2012-08-22: 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)
- 2012-08-21: 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)
- 2012-08-20: 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)
- 2012-08-19: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Jn 6,51-58: «I am the living bread which has come from heaven; whoever eats of this bread will live forever» Antoni CAROL i Hostench (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2012-08-18: 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)
- 2012-08-17: Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 19,3-12: «Let no one separate what God has joined» Roger J. LANDRY (Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States)
- 2012-08-16: 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)
- 2012-08-15: 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)
- 2012-08-14: 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)
- 2012-08-13: 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)
- 2012-08-12: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Jn 6,41-51: «No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him» Lluc TORCAL (Santa Maria de Poblet, Tarragona, Spain)
- 2012-08-11: 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)
- 2012-08-10: August 10th: St. Lawrence, martyr Jn 12,24-26: «Whoever wants to serve me, let him follow me and wherever I am, there shall my servant be also» Antoni CAROL i Hostench (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2012-08-09: 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)
- 2012-08-08: Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 15,21-28: «Woman, how great is your faith!» Jordi CASTELLET i Sala (Sant Hipòlit de Voltregà, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2012-08-07: Tuesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 14,22-36: «Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you walking on the water» Lluc TORCAL (Santa Maria de Poblet, Tarragona, Spain)
- 2012-08-06: 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)
- 2012-08-05: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Jn 6,24-35: «‘Sir, give us this bread always’. ‘I am the bread of life’» Joaquim FONT i Gassol (Igualada, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2012-08-04: 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)
- 2012-08-03: 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)
- 2012-08-02: Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 13,47-53: «They gather the good fish in buckets, but throw the worthless ones away» Ferran JARABO i Carbonell (Agullana, Girona, Spain)
- 2012-08-01: Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 13,44-46: «He goes and sells everything he has, in order to buy that field» Enric CASES i Martín (Barcelona, Spain)