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GOSPEL REFLECTION: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)

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GOSPEL REFLECTION: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Sunday, 12th July 2015 by Rev. Fr. Allen Baclor Abadines   * READINGS: First Reading: Amos 7:12-15 Responsorial Psalm: Show us your steadfast love, O Lord, and grant us your salvation. Second Reading: Ephesians 1:3-14 * GOSPEL: Mark 6:7-13 Jesus called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics. Jesus said to them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place. If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them." So the twelve went out and proclaimed that all should repent. They cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them. * ...

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)

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GOSPEL REFLECTION: 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) Matthew 21:33-43 5th October 2014 by Rev.Fr. Allen Baclor Abadines  * GOSPEL: Matthew 21:33-43 Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: "Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. "When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. "Finally, he sent his son to them saying, "They will respect my son." But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, "This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance." So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. "Now when the owner ...