Contemplating today's Gospel
Today's Gospel + homily (in 300 words)
Previous comments (August of 2019)
- 2019-08-31: 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)
- 2019-08-30: 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)
- 2019-08-29: 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)
- 2019-08-28: 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)
- 2019-08-27: 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)
- 2019-08-26: 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)
- 2019-08-25: Sunday 21st (C) in Ordinary Time Lc 13,22-30: «Lord, is it true that few people will be saved?» Pedro IGLESIAS Martínez (Rubí, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2019-08-24: August 24th: Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle Jn 1,45-51: «Come and see» Christoph BOCKAMP (Bonn, Germany)
- 2019-08-23: 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)
- 2019-08-22: 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)
- 2019-08-21: 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)
- 2019-08-20: 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)
- 2019-08-19: 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)
- 2019-08-18: Sunday 20th (C) in Ordinary Time Lc 12,49-53: «Do you think that I have come to bring peace on earth?» Isidre SALUDES i Rebull (Alforja, Tarragona, Spain)
- 2019-08-17: 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)
- 2019-08-16: 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)
- 2019-08-15: 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)
- 2019-08-14: 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)
- 2019-08-13: 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)
- 2019-08-12: 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)
- 2019-08-11: Sunday 19th (C) in Ordinary Time Lc 12,32-48: «You also must be ready, for the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect» Melcior QUEROL i Solà (Ribes de Freser, Girona, Spain)
- 2019-08-10: 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)
- 2019-08-09: 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)
- 2019-08-08: 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)
- 2019-08-07: 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)
- 2019-08-06: August 6th: Transfiguration of Our Lord (C) Lc 9,28-36: «Master, it is good that we are here; let us make three tents (…)» Antoni CAROL i Hostench (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2019-08-05: Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 14,13-21: «Raised his eyes to heaven» Xavier ROMERO i Galdeano (Cervera, Lleida, Spain)
- 2019-08-04: Sunday 18th (C) in Ordinary Time Lc 12,13-21: «Even though you have many possessions, it is not that which gives you life» Jordi PASCUAL i Bancells (Salt, Girona, Spain)
- 2019-08-03: 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)
- 2019-08-02: 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)
- 2019-08-01: 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)
