Gospel Explained

STAYING AWAKE, STAYING ALIVE IN CHRIST! The word Adventus in Latin means, ‘arrival or coming’. The Advent spirit of waiting and longing for Jesus reminds us of our daily call to holiness. Jesus is not just asking us to prepare ourselves to celebrate the Christmas...

WHAT WERE YOU BORN FOR? Today we celebrate Christ as King of our hearts and the Universe. Wherever Christ is present, there is the Kingdom of God. Our heart is His throne. The Kingdom is not a geographical country with borders or boundaries. It exists in every home...

ARE YOU READY FOR THE END OF THE WORLD? In today's Gospel (Mk 13:24-32), Jesus warns us to be on our guard, because we do not know the day or the hour when we will be called from our time on earth and be answerable to Him on the day of judgement. He speaks about the...

DO I REALLY TRUST JESUS? In today’s Gospel (Mk 12: 38-44) and in the first reading (1 Kings 17:10-16), the actions of both widows portray the image of Jesus, who gave everything of Himself away to benefit us. He wants us to give away our freewill to God, in place of...

PEACE IS THE PROFIT OF TRUE LOVE Love is the theme in the commandments. It comes from the Greek word ‘agape’, which means ‘a love that benefits the other person’. If we put other people first before ourselves, then we live in the likeness of Jesus. The scribe said...

TO DRINK FROM THE CUP OF SUFFERING IS TO DIE TO SIN In today’s Gospel (Mk 10:35-45), the baptism Jesus refers to that He must enter is His suffering, crucifixion, death and resurrection (Mk 10:35-45). Like a baptism, He will be immersed down into death and then emerge...

WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO ENTER HEAVEN? A rich person who does not act as Jesus teaches is gambling with their inheritance and claim of eternal life. All of us are rich, until such a time that we allow Jesus to reign our lives. If our hearts are attached to something...

WE MUST NOT DIVORCE OURSELVES FROM GOD To hear and understand Jesus’ teachings, one must listen with a humble heart, like a child wanting to learn, in order to hear the heavenly Truth. This is why Jesus says today, let the little children come to me (Mark 10:2-16). To...

WITH YOUR HELP JESUS, I WILL NOT SIN AGAIN In today’s Gospel (Mark 9:30-38-43,45,47-48) the disciples are jealous of someone else doing the Lord’s work of casting devils out of the soul of a sinner. They tried to stop him, not understanding that the Holy Spirit shares...

GET BEHIND ME SATAN In the Gospel today (Mark 8:27-35), Peter answered Jesus question regarding His identity with a profession of faith, when he declared; You are the Christ. However, we see later in the Gospel that Peter did not understand that the ‘Christ’, as the...