by maureen | May 19, 2025 | Gospel Explained
WHAT DOES GLORIFICATION MEAN? To give Glory to God is to stop sinning and to consciously defeat the power of the devil within us. Glorifying God and defeating the devil go hand in hand. To give true glory to God, is to renounce ourselves, mount the Cross and die to...
by maureen | May 12, 2025 | Gospel Explained
HEAR THE VOICE OF SALVATION Today is Vocation Sunday. True listening requires an act of the heart over the mind. In today’s Gospel (Jn 10:27-30), Jesus says, ‘My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life’. To understand how to...
by maureen | Apr 11, 2025 | Gospel Explained
THE ADULTERESS WOMAN WAS TOLD NOT TO SIN AGAIN In today’s Gospel (Jn 8:1-11), Jesus gives us a glimpse and a warning what to expect on our Day of Judgement, when no sin will be hidden from Him. The angry mob made themselves self-righteous, in their challenging Jesus,...
by maureen | Mar 31, 2025 | Gospel Explained
CONFESSION RESTORES OUR INHERITANCE The son abandoning the estate and squandering his inheritance, represent people who abandon and distance themselves from the Church today. They make the choice to have nothing to do with God. They choose to live a life of sin and...
by maureen | Mar 25, 2025 | Gospel Explained
A HAPPY AND BLESSED ST. PATRICK’S DAY! St Patrick came from a Catholic family in Roman Brittany known as Scotland today. At sixteen, while staying with his grandfather, close to a trading fortress town, he was captured by Irish pirates and sold into slavery for six...
by maureen | Mar 25, 2025 | Gospel Explained
WE MUST LISTEN TO JESUS IF WE WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN Jesus came into the world to transfigure our sinful bodies, into copies of His Glorious (sinless) Body (Phil 3:17-4). Only then, can we enter Heaven. Jesus reminds us that we are made-up of two natures: human and...