Commentary by Fr Fernando Armellini: Matthew 20:1-16 – 25 Sunday Ordinary Time – Year A – English Voiceover Greeting (See First Reading) “Seek the Lord while he is still to be found, call to him while he is still near,” says the prophet. God himself goes out to seek you, says the message of today.
Commentary by Fr Fernando Armellini: Matthew 18:21-35 – 24 Sunday Ordinary Time – Year A – English Voiceover Greeting The God of forgiveness, mercy and life be always with you. R/ And also with you. Introduction by the Celebrant 1. Forgive: Enter God’s World We are all familiar with the saying: “To err is human,
For the Commentary by Fr Fernando Armellini: Matthew 18:15-20 – 23 Sunday Ordinary Time – Year A – English Voiceover Greeting Jesus tells us today: Where two or three have come together in my name, there I am among them. We are here in his name and so he is among us. May he always
Year II. Paul reminds his Corinthians that he had preached them the simple, uncomplicated message of the crucified Christ. That was a message of faith, not of human wisdom. Gospel. From now on until Advent begins, we shall read the gospel of Luke, the evangelist who pays special attention to the Holy Spirit, the mercy
Year II. Little people, like most of the Corinthians, should be aware that they are great before God. God chooses what is foolish in the world to shame the wise. Their boast, their wisdom, is God. Gospel. In today’s parable of the talents, Jesus speaks of what we do for the kingdom of God with
Year II. Paul knows that the Christians of Corinth are not only divided in their loyalties but are also influenced by the Greek tendency to philosophise about everything. But their salvation, their true wisdom, lies in Christ, who saved them by the cross. Gospel. The key point of the parable of the wise and the
Year II. For three-and-a-half weeks, we will hear in the first reading excerpts from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. In this letter, Paul faces practical problems in a young Christian community in pagan territory, particularly internal divisions into factions, lapses in morality, relations with pagans, the role of charisms, and faith in the resurrection,
Year II. Our guide should be the solid traditions of our faith, not private revelations. Gospel. We probably agree with Jesus’ strong condemnation of the Pharisees’ hypocrisy. But hypocrisy is still with us today. The whitewashing of tombs continues, and from individual corruption, it has pervaded society itself. The wrongs of the state, and the
Year II. Paul is aware that his Thessalonians are in danger of becoming an end-of-the-world sect, something we can easily understand in light of the many similar sects appearing among us today. Paul invites them to look serenely at the traditions of the early Church about the end of the world, which Paul had brought
Year II. Before the exile, Ezekiel had warned the people against the punishment awaiting them. When the exile had come, he consoled them and gave them the hope that God would live again among his people with all his glory. Gospel. The Lord abhors duplicity and hypocrisy, particularly in religious leaders. The scribes had rendered
