Daily Reflections

Christ’s Way – Dominion Through Humble Obedience

By Cheryl J / February 20, 2025 /

In our first reading today, God promises Noah never again to punish the earth with a total flood. For this righteous descendant of Adam, God re-establishes Noah’s dominion over the Earth – over all living creatures, the birds of the air, the animals and reptiles on the ground, and the…

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Opening Act

By D'Souza Family / February 19, 2025 /

In today’s Gospel, we see how sight is restored to a blind man. The healing is gradual. This is how the disciples of Christ and we their descendants in the faith learn. Gradually. Slowly. Painstakingly. With the passage of time and dint of effort, faith grows, and our spiritual vision…

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Noah, a Flood, and a Promise

By Joanne Huestis-Dalrymple / February 18, 2025 /

Today’s first reading tells of the story of Noah and the flood that wiped the Earth of all living things aside from Noah and his family and the animals he was told to take. God promised not to destroy the Earth in this way ever again a few chapters later…

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Watch Your Tone!

By Maggie Martin / February 17, 2025 /

It was not until I was forced to read aloud the account of the Fall to my class of first reconciliation students that I realized the Father’s sorrow. He calls for Adam and Eve, “Where are you?” (Gen 3:9) With His broken heart He asks, “What is this you have…

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Blessings Abound!

By Celina Manville / February 16, 2025 /

Today’s readings offer us an abundance of blessings. In the First Reading, we are given the assurance that when we trust in the Lord, we are truly blessed: “like a tree planted beside the waters,” we will be nurtured and sustained. The Responsorial Psalm echoes this and explains that when…

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The Consequences of Disobedience

By Fr. Sylvanus Amaobi / February 15, 2025 /

Dear brothers and sisters, “This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24). The Sin of Disobedience Sin makes the sinner ashamed and afraid. Of course, the common slogan is “the guilty are afraid.” The sin of Adam and Eve was…

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Feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Patrons of Europe: Cyril (826–869) and Methodius (815–885)

By Fr. Nnaemeka Paschal Ajuka / February 14, 2025 /

Missionaries to the Slavs: Saints Cyril and Methodius were brothers born in 9th-century Thessalonica, in what was then the Byzantine Roman Empire (modern-day Greece). They became Christian missionaries among the Slavic peoples of Moravia and Pannonia (present-day Czech Republic and Hungary). Through their work, they significantly influenced the cultural and…

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“Bone of My Bones, Flesh of My Flesh” – Rediscovering the Sacred Bond between Man and Woman.

By Fr. Alex Igbozuruike / February 13, 2025 /

This second chapter of the Book of Genesis offers us a more intimate and detailed account of creation than the first. Unlike the grand cosmic vision of Genesis 1, Genesis 2 paints a picture of a loving God who forms man from the dust and breathes life into him. At…

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A Reflection on Sin and Works

By Jerry DeMelo Jr. / February 12, 2025 /

But what comes out of the man, that is what defiles him. From within the man, from his heart, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly. All these evils come from within and they defile.” Mk 7:20-23 “Thus, He declared all foods…

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Our Lady of Lourdes

By Fr. John Bosco Obiako / February 11, 2025 /

Today, we commemorate the optional memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lourdes. This day also holds profound significance as the 33rd World Day of the Sick. This global event draws pilgrims from all corners of the world to the French town of Lourdes. There, they seek Mary’s intercession for…

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