“..What’s new about the New Covenant is us, not God. God doesn’t change. What’s revealed in Christ, in His Cross, in His Resurrection is what St. Paul says is the plan of God, which is laying hidden from the beginning of the world… Jesus is the revelation of the Father, if we don’t understand that, we have a very, very compromised, stupid faith….”
“..As I often ask the second graders getting ready for First Holy Communion, why do we believe in the Eucharist? What I want to hear them say is ‘because Jesus said so!’ that’s it, not the Church, because Jesus said so. Jesus is Lord, He is the one that makes the sacraments, not the Church, the Church receives them, and celebrates them….”
“..Our Lord knows everything about us, the good and the bad, and He loves us, He loves us as we are, in fact, He loves us so much that He won’t leave us, as we are, that’s why He comes to save us. He loves this woman in spite of her sins, not because of them but in spite of them, there is more to her than her sins….”
Scrutiny Year ‘A’ Gospel: John 4:5-42
“..Today God is saying He didn’t only come for the simple, the uneducated, He also came for the wealthy, the educated, as long as our education doesn’t become an impediment to the humility of worship and the obedience of Faith….”
“…We also say she is a Perpetual Mother and that she didn’t just bear one child, she bore the whole Church. At the foot of the Cross, Mary brought forth the Church…Mary Mother of God, pray for us sinners….”
“…The effects of Christ’s Incarnation did not end when He went back to the Father. He is still here, He is in His Church through the sacraments, through His Word proclaimed, through the graces poured out. This is what’s supposed to give us a truly deeply Merry Christmas….”
“…We need to be active recipients of the grace of God, and one thing we all must do as Christians .daily, is pray…everyone has a daily obligation to pray..”
“…We must love our neighbor and we must make our neighbor’s salvation paramount for ourselves, we must try to admonish the sinner, correct the ignorant amongst us, teach our fellow Christians, but also in some way, evangelize, and strive through our prayers and by our actions or words, to bring others into the fold of God’s Church …”
“…God’s ways are not unfair, we think that because sometimes life is hard for us, and we get frustrated in our sins …”
“He doesn’t asks us to be creative, He asks us to be faithful, and humble, and admit that all that we have comes from Him, and not to envy His generosity towards others…..”