July 20th – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time : God gives many chances

First
Reading        :  Wisdom 12:13,16-19Psalm                    :  Psalm 86:5-6,9-10,15-16
Second Reading    :  Romans 8:26-27
Gospel                   :  Matthew 13:24-43Central to
today’s parable of the wheat and the weeds is the preciousness of the wheat. God
is patient, kind, and loving like a grandparent. If you want to know what God
is like, picture that farmer in the Gospel. The servants wanted to go and pull
up the weeds, and the farmer says, "Well, let's not be too hasty, too
quick to judge. Let's give it some time. The landowner refuses to lose any of
it in order to get rid of the weeds. “We might pull out some wheat thinking
it's a weed." That's God speaking. And it's a picture of God that Jesus
himself gives us. And it's the way God treats us, because God loves us very,
very much. In its present stage, the world is composed of the good and the bad.
The judgment of God alone will eliminate the sinful. Until then there must be
patience and the preaching of repentance. We can learn much from God’s patience
as we see him allow both the good and the evil to grow together. God wants all
to be saved that’s why He keeps the sinner in the world. God gives us many
chances and opportunities to repent. What is the weed in me?

July 13th - Fifteenth Sunday of the Ordinary Time : God’s Word

 First
Reading        :  is 55:10-11Psalm                    : ps 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14
Second Reading    : rom 8:18-23
Gospel                   : mt 13:1-23 In today’s Gospel Jesus
describes four possible responses to the word of God. The seed on the foot path
refers to those people who quickly lose the word because they do not understand
it. The seed on rocky ground describes those who have no firm foundation. The
seed fallen among thorns relates to those who receive the good news, but later
abandon it for the lure of the world. Finally, the seed on good soil describes
those who hear the word of God, accept it, and conform their lives to it. 
 

July 6 – Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time : Being gentle

 First
Reading        :  Zechariah 9:9-10Psalm                    : Psalm 145:1-2, 8-11, 13-14
Second Reading    : Romans 8:9, 11-13
Gospel                   : Matthew
11:25-30 Todays Gospel contains an
important invitation for all of us. It invites us to learn from Jesus because
he is "gentle and humble of heart". a beautiful example of the
gentleness of Jesus is the way he handled the case of the woman caught in adultery.
Jesus didn't shout and rave. he didn't scream and yell. He simple bent over,
gentle, and wrote in the sand with his finger. His action stood out like a clap
of thunder in the silence of a summer's night. Let us learn from Jesus how to
be gentle when the world wants us to be proud and humble when the world wants
us to be aggressive