May I welcome and express my appreciation to you all who serve the Lord and our people so well in the pastoral ministry as witnesses of our faith. The clergy, the consecrated, religious men and women, thank you most sincerely. Special thanks to you the lay men and women and our youths present today and those […]

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During this Holy Week we will ponder and reflect on the final journey of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Most of the people Jesus encountered on His final journey were hostile. Yet, in today’s gospel, exactly six days before the Passover during which Jesus was to be crucified, He experiences great kindness. He was a guest […]

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Today, we celebrate the Triumph Entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. With this celebration we begin the Holy week, in which we are invited to reflect deeply on the Passion, Death and Resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Our procession with Palms at the beginning of the Eucharist is an image of our interior journey […]

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“What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.” He is unstoppable. This is the principle complaint of the chief priests and Pharisees about Jesus. His ability to perform signs threatened their power base and at the same time it vindicated the lowly and the poor. The chief priests and Pharisees were […]

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Humility is the single most important attribute in opening our hearts and minds to God. We receive from others in proportion to what we give up of our selves. We only gain in so far as we able to sacrifice. We can give only what we have and we can receive only in accord to […]

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