Reflections of Caritas

Gospel: John 20: 19-23

Dear friends,

As we celebrate the feast of Pentecost, the season of Easter reaches its final Climax. Today marks the actual beginning of the church's missionary endeavor.

We celebrate today a great feast, when Christ filled and equipped his church with the power of his Spirit and sent us out into the world to bring peace, unity, Joy, forgiveness and love to all mankind.

On this day of Pentecost, Jesus fulfilled his promise to send the advocate. This is not something that happened a long time ago to other people. It is happening today here and now. Today each of us is filled with and anointed with the Holy Spirit.

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Gospel: Mt 28: 18-20.

Dear friends,

Today we celebrate the solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, celebrating the moment when forty days after his resurrection, Our Lord Jesus Christ ascended in glory into heaven, to return to his heavenly throne, triumphant and victorious in the sight of all his disciples who witnessed the events and testified about it on their mission.

After Jesus's Ascension, What are we to do? Do we sit around and wait for something to happen or do we go and do something?

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Gospel: LK 24:13-35

Dear friends,

There are moments in life when we join Cleophas and his friend on the road to Emmaus;sad, frustrated, disappointed, confused and a feeling of giving up and return to the old self.

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GOSPEL: MT 26:14-26:66  

Hosanna, hosanna!!!!!

Dear friends,

After five and a half weeks of preparation, we now enter into the climax of the Lenten season namely Holy Week, the chief week of the Liturgical Year. Today is the first day of Holy Week and it is called “Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion.” In a way, the whole week from today until Easter Sunday should be seen as one unit, namely, the celebration of the Paschal Mystery, which is the passion, death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

On this Sunday, the Church celebrates the triumphant entry of Christ into Jerusalem in order to accomplish his Paschal Mystery. Today, all the readings highlight the ordeal and humility of Christ. Today’s gospel is from the passion narrative of Christ. It could be divided into three scenes: the arrest of Christ, his arraignment before Roman authorities, and his suffering and death. It is a drama of both praise and betrayal. It started like a comedy, but seems to end like a tragedy.

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