The Hermit of Antipolo

Gospel reading: Mark 1:29-39 Jesus “drove out many demons, not permitting them to speak because they knew him.” (v.34b). The demons knew...

Gospel reading: Mark 1:7-11 John the Baptist, in differentiating his ministry with Jesus, says, “I have baptized you with water; he will...

Gospel reading: Matthew 11:11-15 “Amen, I say to you, among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist”...

Gospel reading: Matthew 11:28-30 We all have our problems in life. We all have our difficulties and challenges in Christian service....

Gospel reading: Matthew 9:27-31 Jesus healed two blind men of their blindness (v.28-30a). Then “Jesus warned them sternly, ‘See that no...

Today’s reading: Psalm 27:1-14 We are at war. Though war be waged against me” (v.3c); we are engaged in all-out spiritual warfare. “When...

Gospel reading: Matthew 7:21-27 Jesus has some sobering words for us today. “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the...

Gospel reading: Matthew 8:5-11 We who are servants of Jesus are soldiers in his army, tasked for mission in the world. He is our...

Today’s readings: Isaiah 2:1-5 Psalm 122:1-2,3-4,8-9 Matthew 8:5-11 Outside the walls of the United Nations are these words from Isaiah:...

Today’s gospel: Luke 21:1-4 The Holy Spirit included this story of the poor widow’s contribution in order to challenge us who are not as...

Today’s readings: Revelation 14:1-5 Psalm 24:1-6 The book of Revelation gives us a glimpse of heaven, and attunes our minds to the end of...

Gospel reading: Luke 18:1-8 Jesus says, “But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” (v.8b). Poignant. Prophetic. Sad....

Anti-life, anti-family, homosexualist activists are already inside the Catholic Church, and in some places in the western world, well...

In this “Synodos” series, I will be taking up matters relevant to what the III Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops...

Today’s gospel: Luke 16:9-15 You accept Jesus as master and Lord. You also accept Biblical teachings about detachment, self-emptying,...

Here is the final document of the III Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. This will be discussed throughout the...

The divide between progressive and traditionalist bishops at the Synod was basically on how to treat people on the wrong side of...

Introduction The III Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops happened from October 5 to 18, 2014, at Vatican City. The...

Gospel reading: Matthew 20:1-16 Regarding this parable of the workers in the vineyard, all the commentaries I have seen through the...

Gospel reading: Luke 6:27-38 As if Jesus’ teaching yesterday was not hard enough, now he ratchets it up one notch higher. “But to you...