The Hermit of Antipolo

Jesus appeared to Mary of Magdala outside the tomb and said to her, “Whom are you looking for?” (Jn 20:15). Jesus might ask the same...

Here is part of Fr Cantalamessa’s Good Friday homily. It is a good teaching on mammon. A strong antidote is true financial stewardship....

“Why do you seek the living one among the dead?” (Lk 24:5b). Jesus is alive. We love and serve a living God. Jesus is one who has...

Jesus has died and been buried, with a huge stone rolled across the entrance to the tomb. “But Mary Magdalene and the other Mary remained...

The women told the eleven disciples that Jesus had been raised. Then when they themselves “saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.”...

In his third prediction of his passion, Jesus said to his disciples, “the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the...

During Lent we look more closely at the suffering and death of Jesus, which we as Christians all know about. But for many Christians, it...

Jesus said to his disciples, "Not all of you are clean." (Jn 13:11b). Jesus says the same thing to us. And this Lent, we have a special...

We are disciples of Jesus and we follow him. But how closely? When Jesus was arrested, "Peter was following him at a distance" (Mt...

Judas was chosen by Jesus himself. He was in his daily company for three years. He was taught by him, parables explained to him,...

Jesus asked the Father three times that the cup pass from him (Mt 26:39,42,44). Paul begged the Lord three times that the thorn in his...

We are a people of faith. We might even say, strong faith. Or even as we look to our theme last year, a people of wonder-working faith....

During the Last Supper, Jesus dropped a bombshell. "Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me." (Mk...

"From that time on" points to a significant shift in direction. It was so then, but something happened, and from that time on it is now...

Gospel: Mark 2:1-12 Who are the poor? They are those who are the least, the lost, the outcasts, the deprived. In today’s gospel, it is...

Reading: 1 Samuel 2:1-8 Hannah knew God as someone who had a preferential option for the poor. This was obvious from the way “Hannah...

Reading: Isaiah 42:1-7 This passage from Isaiah is the first of four “Servant of the Lord” poems. It describes the mission of a servant....

Gospel: Luke 5:12-16 After Jesus healed the leper, “great crowds assembled to listen to him and to be cured of their ailments” (v.15b)....

Gospel reading: Luke 4:14-22 The Live Christ Share Christ (LCSC) mission, through its Live Full pillar, has the No One in Need (NONe)...

Today’s gospel: Luke 21:1-4 As we move on to respond to the call to the New Evangelization, as the Lord actually opens up to us the way...