Posts by Gratia Vobis Ministries
Never Hopeless
Today’s first reading and the Gospel are filled with Hope. What glorious readings we have today, as Holy Mother Church pilgrims moving through this Jubilee year of Hope. St Paul reminds us in Romans 5:5 ‘and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that…
Read MoreSource and Summit
Today, Holy Mother church celebrates the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, fresh off pondering the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity. Mother church challenges us to look, to adore, to consume and to be transformed into the very Image and Likeness of Jesus. In his Easter Sermon, 227, St. Augustine…
Read MoreAbide In My Love
For Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. Romans 10:4 Today, the Holy Mother Church proclaims from its ambo that we are all saved by Grace, as reflected in St. Paul’s words in Ephesians 2:8-9: ” For by grace you have been saved through faith,…
Read MoreIngratitude of the Crowds
In today’s Gospel, we hear the continuation of Jesus’s engagement with the crowd of Jews as we make our way through the Bread of Life discourse this week. They had just had their stomachs filled, and miraculously at that, but now they were clamoring for even more. The great doctor of the Church, Saint John…
Read MoreThank You for Blessings From the Past and in the Future
When I was a child, my family lived in an old ancestral house that my great-grandfather purchased nearly a century ago when he married my great-grandmother. It was a traditional Filipino stone house, a stone-walled ground floor, and a wooden second floor, complete with large windows that allowed the cool breeze to pass through. My…
Read MoreTuesday of the Second Week of Easter
Dear GVM Readers, Happy Eastertide! We wish you a very blessed Tuesday celebrating the Resurrected Lord. [Readings: Acts 4:32-37; Jn 3:7b-15]
Read MoreFriday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
Have a Blessed Day! [Readings: 1 kgs 11:29-32; 12:19; Mk 7:31-37]
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