19 July 2015 Mark 6:30-34 (Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time) In today’s Gospel reading, the sight of the crowd summoned the shepherd in the Lord. What did it, we are told, was that they were like a shepherd-less flock of sheep. Nothing, after all, moves the heart of the Lord as much as his desire…
Category: Season: Ordinary Time
Three in One – Arnel Aquino, SJ
Matthew 28:16-20, Trinity Sunday When I came back from graduate studies in 2011, I begged my dean to give me any subject at Loyola School of Theology…just not Trinity. Trinity is as tough to teach as it is to learn. It is a very “heady” subject, abstruse, highly speculative, and hair-splitting. When I was a…
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 