The WORD. The TRUTH.
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290 total views Homiliya Para sa Pang-apat na Simbang Gabi, 19 Dis 2024, Lk 1:5-25 Ramdam ko ang pagkainis sa tono ng salita ni anghel Gabriel sa kuwento ng ating ebanghelyo sa araw na ito. Ang trabaho lang naman niya ay magdala ng mabuting balita. Kadalasan ang mahirap ay ang magdala ng masamang balita. Kung ikaw
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2,919 total views Homiliya para sa Unang Simbang Gabi, 16 Disyembre 2024, Isa 56, 1-3a. 6-8 and Jn 5:33-36 Ang unang pagbasa mula kay propeta Isaias ang pagkukuhanan natin ng inspirasyon para sa unang araw ng ating simbang gabi. Ayon sa propeta, sinabi daw ng Panginoon: “Ang pagliligtas ko’y di na magluluwat, ito ay darating, ito’y
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16,916 total views On this “red day” of my life and ministry as a bishop, allow me to repost a homily I delivered on 25 Nov. 2020, Red Wednesday, entitled “WASHED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB” based on Lk 21:12-19, Memorial of St. Catherine of Alexandria Red is a dangerous color. The Spaniards say if
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8,428 total views Homily for 1st Sunday of Advent, 1 Dec 2024, Lk 21:25-28, 34-36 Someone once asked me what our Kapampangan word for listening is. I said “Makiramdam.” He seemed puzzled because he knows that “makiramdam “ is also a Tagalog word and it means “to feel.” So how do you say, “to feel” in
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7,839 total views Homily for Friday of the 34th Week in OT, 29 Nov 2024, Lk 21:29-33 “Consider the fig tree…”, Jesus says in today’s Gospel. Two Sundays ago (on the 33rd Sunday of Year B from Mark 13:24-32), we heard Mark’s parallel to this narrative. But there, Jesus says, “Learn a lesson from the fig
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11,143 total views Ika-33 Linggo ng KP, taon B, ika-17 ng Nobyembre 2024, Marko 13:24-32 Noong nagpilgrimage ang mga pari ng Kalookan, minsan nakita ko ang isa sa mga pari namin na “plantito” ring tulad ko. Nakatayo siya sa ilalim ng isang punongkahoy sa tapat ng hotel. Nakahawak siya sa gilid ng puno, nakadampi ang palad
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14,829 total views Homily for Tuesday of the 31st Week in OT, 5 Nov 2024, Lk 14:12-14 I hope you don’t mind that I do some “reading between the lines” of the parable narrated by Jesus in today’s Gospel. Is the host in the story commanding his servant to let the poor and the crippled, the