Going from town to town, preaching to the poorest—and frequently the most receptive—the joyful news of the fulfillment of the promises and of the Covenant offered by God is the mission for which Jesus declares that He is sent by the Father. And all the aspects of His mystery—the Incarnation itself, His miracles, His teaching, [...]
The fourth Sunday of OT (Year B, 2009) gives us the image of Jesus and his four new disciples in a synagogue at Caphernaum. The reading from Deuteronomy 18 points out Jesus as the prophet like Moses who can speak God’s words because he is able to speak with God face-to- face. In his book [...]
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14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are [...]
The devotion to the Santo Nino is based on an image that the Magellan expedition of 1521 gave as gift to Queen Maniwangtiwang (Christian name: Juana) and rediscovered by a sailor of the Legaspi-Urdaneta expedition of 1565. The image was given to the Augustinians for safekeeping and is now housed at the Basilica del Sto. [...]
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