Luke 17:11-19, 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Leprosy was and is a awful thing anywhere, anytime. But in the ancient Near East, it was a particularly heavy burden to bear since it meant complete social isolation. You could, of course, hang out with other lepers. But you were bound to stay as far away from…
Category: Evangelist: Luke
Our Father – Arnel Aquino, SJ
Luke 11:1-4, Wednesday of 27th Week in Ordinary Time I hadn’t picked up the rosary for many, many years since I was ordained. Mom pretty much forced us to pray it with her every October and May; even as a child, I had already found it too repetitive for me to really mean what I…
When God seems Absent – Mark Aloysius, SJ
Luke 17 5:10, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time I. Perhaps as we begin a new academic year after our summer holidays, we do well to spend some time reflecting on all the experiences we have had during our break. You might have had the grace of rest, the pleasure of being in the midst of…
Losing Faith – Arnel Aquino, SJ
Luke 17:5-10, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time People who know me well also know that there was a particular stretch in my life when I served as my parent’s quote-unquote “marriage counselor”. Even as a little child, I’d know dad and mom fought again because they’d be killing each other with silence. So when I…
Increase our Faith – Rudolf Horst, SVD
Luke 17 5:10, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time We all admire the heroes of faith like St. Francis whose feast we will celebrate on Tuesday. Absolutely nothing stopped him in his pursuit of God’s glory. When, during the Crusades, he was captured by the Saracens, St. Francis challenged the imams to a duel to prove…
wru – Jett Villarin, SJ
Luke 17 5:10, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time When our date does not arrive at the appointed time, we text or call. Before cellphones, what did we do? We waited. Now that email connects us almost instantaneously, we are pressured to respond just as instantaneously. What did we do before email, when we had to…
The Ultimate Test of Character – Mark Lopez, SJ
Luke 16:19-32, 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time I sometimes wonder how many people will actually be allowed into heaven. And I wonder, what if, just what if, we were to be judged according to ways that we behaved in circumstances we thought didn’t really matter. For those of us who can drive a car, what…
What is Wealth for? – Francis Alvarez, SJ
Luke 16:19-31, 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s…
Instant – Arnel Aquino, SJ
Luke 16:1-13, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Let me read to you a text I received recently from a dear friend. He says, “Arnel, can you remember in your prayers my son who is frustrated in his job? Very talented boy, as you know, but gets frustrated easily. He already quit two jobs, same reason….
The Lost Sons – RB Hizon, SJ
Luke 15:1-32, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time My first assignment as priest was as a prison chaplain at the national penitentiary in Bilibid, Muntinlupa. It was had work. There were days when I said as many as six masses, heard confessions for hours and just listened to many painful and horrible stories of violence, loss…
The One that Got Away – Johnny Go, SJ
Luke 15:1-32, 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Today’s Gospel is about the one that got away. We all have such a person in our life: Somebody we used to care for deeply, someone somehow entrusted once to our care, someone who inhabited our universe once upon a time and–for just that brief fairy tale moment–made…
Cost – Jett Villarin, SJ
Luke 14:25-33, 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Would you not follow the one who could walk on water, turn water into wine, and multiply five loaves to feed five thousand? There they were, the multitudes, following him to Jerusalem. He knew he was going to end up on Calvary. They thought he was going to…
One Lost Sheep 