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C: 30th Sun of OrdTime (27 Oct 2019) - ON BOXING MATCH, BEAUTY PAGEANT AND BATTLEFIELD (Lk 18:9-14)
I heard once a beautiful illustration of what is the right attitude in entering the kingdom of heaven. It says that life is not a boxing...
Rex Fortes
Oct 25, 20193 min read
C: 29th Sun of OrdTime (20 Oct 2019) - WIDOW'S LAST RESORT (Lk 18:1-8)
A story is told about a cat that has kept on chasing a particular mouse. All day and all night it would hunt and run after the mouse but...
Rex Fortes
Oct 19, 20193 min read
C: 28th Sun of OrdTime (13 Oct 2019) - REPEL, REPENT AND REPAIR (Lk 17:11-19)
We have today the story of the cleansing of the ten lepers. It is good to focus our reflection on the different phases a leper normally...
Rex Fortes
Oct 11, 20193 min read
C:27th Sun of OrdTime (6 Oct 2019) - HOPE FOR THE SERVANT (Lk 17:5-10)
Our gospel today uses the illustration of servanthood, i.e., that servants are duty-bound to perform their given tasks at the service of...
Rex Fortes
Oct 4, 20193 min read
C: 26th Sun of OrdTime (29 Sept 2019) - PASSIVE MURDERERS (Lk 16:19-31)
In our Gospel story, presented is a rich man—tradition names him Dives (Latin for “rich”)—who was condemned to Hades (Lk 16:23). It was...
Rex Fortes
Sep 25, 20193 min read
C: 25th Sun OrdTime (22 Sept 2019) - TRUSTING MAMMON (Lk 16:1-13)
“You cannot serve God and mammon” (Lk 16:13). But what is a “mammon”? We encounter this term thrice in our gospel (vv. 9, 11, 13) and is...
Rex Fortes
Sep 21, 20193 min read
C: 24th Sun of OrdTime (15 Sept 2019) - THE UNFORGIVING SPACE (LK 15:1-32)
An often neglected part in the analysis of the beloved story of the Prodigal Son is the discourse on physical and social space. Most of...
Rex Fortes
Sep 13, 20193 min read
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