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Send us Fan Mail This Sunday, over one billion Catholics all over the world gather not only to celebrate the Holy Eucharist but also celebrate World Mission Sunday, 100 years since its institution in 1926 by Pope Pius XI’s Papal decree. Mission comes from the Latin word "missio" which means "sent". As Jesus sent his disciples two by two, we too as Church are sent to proclaim the gospel to the ends of the earth.  This annual celebration gives us a chance to reflect on the importance of mission work for the life of the Church. It reminds us that we are one with the Church around the world and that we are all committed to carrying on the mission of Christ, however different our situations may be. Let pray for missionaries throughout the world, that God will strengthen them in their ministries.  Support the show

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Send us Fan Mail Friend  in Christ, we thank God for making it possible for us to celebrate another Feast commemorating his Resurrection. One of God’s greatest gifts is that he makes his will known to us. Another is the grace that makes it possible for us to say yes. Another is that he is always ready to forgive us when we say no, and take us back when we return to him. It’s all his work. It’s all his grace. Not just in you, not just in me, but in all of us.  We have been called to do the work of God.  The readings this Sunday call each of us to ask ourselves: Am I really committed to living this all surpassing gift that is my Christianity? Today, we ask God to give us the strength and the courage to do His Work. Please join my family and I to pray for the repose of the soul of our brother and brother in law Stephen Yiyen aka  Oyoyo who passed away recently. May his soul and the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen.  Support the show

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Send us Fan Mail Friends in Christ, welcome back to PTTTSOTW on this 25th Sunday OT A  We thank God for his Love, mercy, forgiveness and his many gifts.  As we come together to listen to His words from thisSunday's readings, which focus on our sense of justice and the extravagant love of our merciful God, who pardons us unconditionally, and rewards us generously, we ask for His grace to open our minds and hearts that we may understand and receive His message today and apply them in our lives. Support the show

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Send us Fan Mail Friends in Christ, today's readings tell us who we are as Christians. We are people who proclaim that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the anointed one of God, the Son of the Living God. And we are called into a community founded by Jesus the Christ and built upon peter the Rock, the one to whom Jesus entrusted the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Friends in Christ, Jesus calls you and me to live together as a family, a family that He calls His Church, a family of faith. He called it “my church”, and He declared that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Hell vanishes in the face of love; the devils flee in the face of trusting, forgiving, believing, and hoping love. Jesus knows that we can’t be our best all alone, all by ourselves. The best within us is always brought out in loving relationships with others. No amount of evil can ever overcome any amount of love. That’s why the gates of hell are powerless in the face of it and we become like Rocks of Gibraltar, like St. Peter became the Rock, when we face of all of life’s storms thrown up against us. Support the show

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Send us Fan Mail Friends, God is ever present among His people. And the reason for this? ...to save them, because He loves them.  That's the message from the readings this Sunday. In the first reading, God is not present in the chaos; the thunder, earthquake or fire but is present in the "whispering sound of silence" to Elijah  St Paul in the second reading laments that his fellow Jews have rejected this presence of God in the person of Jesus Christ.  In the gospel, Our Blessed Lord saves Peter from drowning after he lost his trusting faith in Him for a few seconds and fails to walk on water like Jesus.  Friends in Christ, Jesus is always present and available to save us, to calm the storms we are facing in life.  All we need to do is put our faith and trust in Him.  Let us today and every day imitate the short prayer of sinking Peter ‘Lord, save me.’ Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In the readings this Sunday, get a great sense that when we believe in God, put our hope and trust in Him, then we would be like a treasure hunter who discovers and obtains the most valuable treasure,  “fine pearls” In other words, keeping a personal relationship with Jesus, remaining in a state of grace, and sharing his view of life, are the most beautiful and the most precious things in the world. That is exactly what the young King Solomon did in the first reading. He opted for the great treasure of accepting God to rule his life by doing His will. This pleased God, who rewarded him with the gift of “a heart wise and shrewd as none before you has had and none will have after you,” In the second reading, St Paul teaches that “all things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to His purpose.” This is true of all who accept a close relationship with God as their greatest treasure. And in the Gospel, using three mini-parables, Jesus teaches us that God’s Kingdom, is something of extraordinary value, like a hidden treasure. Possessing that treasure demands from us a total commitment if we are to preserve it.  Friends in Christ, we are encouraged today to live every moment in view to chase and share this treasure instead of chasing false treasures such as money, power, social status, or worldly pleasures. We will be able to keep safe the treasure of our personal relationship with Jesus by accepting him every day as our God and Savior, by allowing God to have total control over our lives through our loving obedience to His will. We pray for the grace to do this.   Support the show

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Send us Fan Mail The readings this 16th Sunday of OT Year A, tell us about a very patient, hope-filled and compassionate God Who is hopeful that the so-called “weeds” among us will be converted. The readings also warn us that we should not be in a hurry to eliminate such elements from the Church, or society, or the family, based on hasty judgment.  Rather than a punishing disciplinarian portrayed in the book of Genesis, the first reading from the Book of Wisdom reminds us on how lenient God is in the face of justice. God’s mercy does not mean a lack of accountability – Christ desires and commands that we love God and love our neighbor. But in his mercy, he does not condemn us for our sin but rather gives time for us to repent. St Paul in his letter to the Romans in the 2nd reading, reminds us that the Spirit of God constantly empowers us in our prayers and in our weakness. So, we should be patient with ourselves and with others. And in the Gospel, Jesus explains the Parable of the wheat and the weeds, where the Sower, God, allows the weeds and wheat, good and evil to coexist. “Let both grow together until the harvest...".  Friends, that precisely is every single one of us because in each and every one of us good and bad live together. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us that in everyone the weeds of sin will be mixed with the good wheat of the gospel. Friends, this Sunday, we are challenged, to discern the thoughts and movements of our hearts. Which thoughts lead us to God, and which ones lead us away from Him. Which thoughts lead us to joy, love, peace, gentleness, kindness, faithfulness and self-control and which ones leave us with envy, anger, impatience, sarcasm, even self-indulgence and so on. We pray for the grace to be aware of which thoughts and intentions are weeds and which ones are wheat. Amen. Support the show