Contemplating today's Gospel
Today's Gospel + homily (in 300 words)
Previous comments (August of 2021)
- 2021-08-31: Tuesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time Lc 4:31-37: “They were astonished at his teaching because he spoke with authority” Joan BLADÉ i Piñol (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2021-08-30: Monday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time Lc 4:16-30: "Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing." David AMADO i Fernández (Barcelona, Spain)
- 2021-08-29: Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Mc 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23: «You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition» Josep Lluís SOCÍAS i Bruguera (Badalona, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2021-08-28: 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)
- 2021-08-27: Friday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time Mt 25:1-13: “Amen, I say to you, I do not know you.” Joan Ant. MATEO i García (Tremp, Lleida, Spain)
- 2021-08-26: 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)
- 2021-08-25: 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)
- 2021-08-24: August 24th: Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle Jn 1:45-51: “Come and see.” Christoph BOCKAMP (Bonn, Germany)
- 2021-08-23: 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)
- 2021-08-22: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Jn 6:60-69: "Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life” Miquel VENQUE i To (Solsona, Lleida, Spain)
- 2021-08-21: 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)
- 2021-08-20: 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)
- 2021-08-19: 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)
- 2021-08-18: 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)
- 2021-08-17: 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)
- 2021-08-16: 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)
- 2021-08-15: 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)
- 2021-08-14: 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)
- 2021-08-13: 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)
- 2021-08-12: 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)
- 2021-08-11: 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)
- 2021-08-10: 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)
- 2021-08-09: 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)
- 2021-08-08: 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)
- 2021-08-07: 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)
- 2021-08-06: 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)
- 2021-08-05: 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)
- 2021-08-04: 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)
- 2021-08-03: 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)
- 2021-08-02: Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 14:13-21: “Looking up to heaven” Xavier ROMERO i Galdeano (Cervera, Lleida, Spain)
- 2021-08-01: 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)
November 24th
Sunday 34th in Ordinary Time: The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe (B)
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