Aug. 22—21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Readings: Joshua 24: 1-2a, 15-17, 18b; Psalm 34, R. Taste and see the goodness...
Amid the noise and rush in the streets of New York City, there’s an old building on 5th Avenue across Central Park with these words etched around the structure: “You have been told, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you: Only to do justice and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6: 8)
Today, we relaunch an initiative we tried four years ago, the weekly family prayer time. The idea is to give families a moment during the week to come together in prayer, to simply be present with one another, and to share each other’s joys and anxieties, successes and failures, hopes and fears, dreams and frustrations in the day to day.
Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle celebrated his 60th birthday on Wednesday, recalling his priestly journey and the "ordeals" when he’s off travelling.
One concern very often raised by parents is how difficult it is to make their children go to Mass. Even in my work 20 years ago, it was a dilemma—some of our students stop going to Mass after graduation.
The Easter Sunday of the Lord's Resurrection, as the greatest and most important Christian feast, is a Day of Obligation for all Christians. Our Lord Jesus' rising from the dead reveals to all believers the deepest meaning and purpose of the Christian's faith in the One who came to destroy death and give life to the world.
This is the Mass for the Solemnity of the Nativity of Christ on Christmas Day at the Sanctuary of St. Paul.
Celebrant: Fr. Alan Gamutan, SSP Choir: Pious Disciples of the Divine Master
Celebrant: Fr. Alan Gamutan, SSP, Choir: Pious Disciples of the Divine Master
I stopped going to church last year for no profound reason but sheer sloth. But, breaking the habit, I finally went to hear Mass again in, of all places, Japan.
