Contemplating today's Gospel
Today's Gospel + homily (in 300 words)
Previous comments (August of 2017)
- 2017-08-31: 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)
- 2017-08-30: 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)
- 2017-08-29: 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)
- 2017-08-28: 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)
- 2017-08-27: 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)
- 2017-08-26: 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)
- 2017-08-25: 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)
- 2017-08-24: August 24th: Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle Jn 1:45-51: “Come and see.” Christoph BOCKAMP (Bonn, Germany)
- 2017-08-23: 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)
- 2017-08-22: 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)
- 2017-08-21: 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)
- 2017-08-20: 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)
- 2017-08-19: 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)
- 2017-08-18: 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)
- 2017-08-17: 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)
- 2017-08-16: 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)
- 2017-08-15: 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)
- 2017-08-14: 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)
- 2017-08-13: 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)
- 2017-08-12: 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)
- 2017-08-11: 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)
- 2017-08-10: 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)
- 2017-08-09: 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)
- 2017-08-08: 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)
- 2017-08-07: Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 14:13-21: “Looking up to heaven” Xavier ROMERO i Galdeano (Cervera, Lleida, Spain)
- 2017-08-06: August 6th: Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord (A) Mt 17:1-9: “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased” Joan SERRA i Fontanet (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2017-08-05: 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)
- 2017-08-04: 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)
- 2017-08-03: 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)
- 2017-08-02: 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)
- 2017-08-01: Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 13,36-43: "Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field" Iñaki BALLBÉ i Turu (Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain)
