Matthew 13:24-43, 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time In his letter to the Romans, St. Paul uses an intriguing description to refer to the sound of the Spirit praying in us: “The Spirit himself intercedes with “inexpressible groanings.” There’s a reason why the Apostle didn’t liken it to something more conventional and even appealing. Like why…
Category: Evangelist: Matthew
Thinking Small – Ron Rolheiser, OMI
Matthew 13:24-43, 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time A year ago, I was at a religious education conference which had as its keynote speaker Maya Angelou, a black woman of considerable talent and remarkable graciousness. Among the many things she shared was this story: “When I was six years old,” she said, “one summer day on…
Forgive the Weeds – John Foley, SJ
Matthew 13:24-43, 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time In this week’s Gospel story, the servants ask whether they should pull out weeds that have been woven in with the wheat. “No,” the Master says. “If you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them. Let them grow together until harvest.” This parable…
The Heart of the Gospel – Mark Aloysius, SJ
Matthew 13:-19; 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time In the film Inception, a team of skilled thieves, who steal corporate secrets through entering the dreams of others, are given the task of planting an idea in the mind of an heir of a major corporation. The idea that they are tasked to plant is to dissolve…
Reckless Lover – Fr Harold Parilla
Matthew 13:1-9, 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time If we find in the Bible a prodigal son, one theologian says, there also is a prodigal sower. By prodigal here is meant wasteful and indiscriminate. In the Gospel for today, God is presented as a prodigal giver, as one who is “reckless” in his manner of giving….
Sower – Rudolf Horst, SVD
Matthew 13:1-9, 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time For people who live in a city, the parable of the sower and the seeds are difficult to understand. And for people who live in the province it is also not easy to understand. Wasn’t the farmer careless throwing the seed on a path, among the thorns and…
Lit – Arnel Aquino, SJ
Matthew 13:1-9, 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time. With the help of brain imaging, neurologists can actually hook us up to a machine and see parts of our brain light up as they get activated by stimulus—like a picture of a loved one, a whiff of cologne, a song. What neuroscientists find fascinating is when someone…
Wasting Time with God – Fr Tito Caluag
Matthew 11:25-30, 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time On the highest point of the Ateneo de Manila campus in Loyola Heights used to stand an imposing statute of the Sacred Heart. The statue was moved to the plaza of the University Church, the Church of the Gesu, when it was built on the same site as…
And my burden is light… – Rudolf Horst, SVD
Matthew 11:25-30, 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time “Come to me, all you labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” That sounds wonderful. Isn’t this good news for all of us because who among us is not burdened with problems? But Jesus is not finished. He continues, “Take my yoke upon you and…
Yoke – Fr Harold Parilla
Matthew, 11:25-30, 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Gospel passage for today can be a great source of consolation for many people. Come to think of it, who among us do not experience getting burdened by the cares of the world? Who among us have not felt the weight of our responsibilities in the family…
In Exile – Ron Rolheiser, OMI
Matthew 11:25-30, 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time A comedian recently quipped that today’s information technologies have effectively rendered a number of things obsolete, most notably phone-books and human courtesy. That’s also true for human rest. Today’s information technologies (the internet, email, software programs like Facebook, mobile phones, IPhones, pocket computers, and the like) have made…
Try a Little Gentleness – Ben Sim, SJ
Matthew 11:25-30, 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Seven hundred years before Jesus was born, a Greek slave, by the name of Aesop, compiled a collection of stories known today as Aesop’s Fables. One of the fables deals with a dispute between the sun and the wind. The dispute was over which of the two was…
One Lost Sheep 