Luke 4:21-30, Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Remember the first time Pope Francis celebrated Holy Thursday mass as pope? He went to a juvenile detention center in Rebibbia, outside Rome, and washed the feet of 12 people, two of whom were women—one of whom was a Muslim. Many of us Filipinos were touched by the…
Category: Evangelist: Luke
Catcher – Jett Villarin, SJ
Luke 5:1-11 (Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time) I hope to catch you in a span of 800 words or so. It is a fond hope I have, a vain hope I sometimes feel. And it depends on the kind of fishnet my words can become, on how far and wide and deep I cast the…
Have A Defiant Christmas – Francis Alvarez, SJ
“Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests” (Luke 2:14). One December morning in 1863, at home on Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts – not very far from where we are tonight – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow heard the church bells ringing, and he wrote: I…
Rejoice, The Lord is Near – Jojo Magadia, SJ
Luke 3:10-18 (Third Sunday of Advent) The presepio displays in the churches of Rome during the advent and Christmas seasons is a tradition that many have grown to love. The presepio is simply what we would call the belen, the nativity scene whose basic characters are Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus lying in a…
Soul and Body – Arnel Aquino. SJ
Luke 24:35-48, Third Sunday of Easter 2015 Napansin po ba ninyo na nauso ang mga pelikula at tv show tungkol sa zombie at sa bampira? Dati-rati, uso ang multo. Pero ngayon, mas uso na yata ang zombie at bampira. Sa tv ngayon, halimbawa, limang seasons na ang The Walking Dead. Sa pelikula naman, hindi ba…
O Holy Night, the Star Brightly Shining – Arnel Aquino SJ
Luke 16:10-13, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time I was having a bad week when September began. I had two recollections coming that weekend, but I hadn’t prepared a word of it, because of my teaching load. Exam week was coming and I was still two quizzes short. I had two stacks of papers to…
One Lost Sheep 