Tuesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time

“For greater things you were born.” (Ven. Mother Luisita)

 TUESDAY, JANUARY 19th   Mk. 2: 23-28   “The Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

• CCC 1167: When we ponder, O Christ, the marvels accomplished on this day, the Sunday of your holy Resurrection, we say:  Blessed is Sunday, on Sunday heaven and earth rejoiced and the whole universe was filled with light. Blessed is Sunday, for on it were opened the gates of paradise so that Adam and all the exiles might enter it without fear.

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Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time

“For greater things you were born.” (Ven. Mother Luisita)

 MONDAY, JANUARY 18th   Mk. 2: 18-22   “No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak. If he does, its fullness pulls away, the new from the old, and the tear gets worse. Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wine-skins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wine-skins.”

• The Church is the seamless garment of the Mystical Body of Christ. The Church is

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Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

“For greater things you were born.” (Ven. Mother Luisita)

 SUNDAY, JANUARY 17th   Jn. 1: 35-42   Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you will be called “Cephas” which is translated Peter.

• Later Jesus will say, “And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”
• Jesus last words in the Gospel of Matthew are: “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of

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Saturday of the First Week in Ordinary Time

“For greater things you were born.” (Ven. Mother Luisita)

SATURDAY, JANUARY 16th   Mk. 2: 13-17   “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.”

Part 1: GOD ALONE … by Father John Tauler, O.P.
Part 2: MEDITATION, MASS, MERCY, MISSION, MARY! by Father Ed Broom, OMV 

PART 1:  GOD ALONE … by Father John Tauler, O.P.

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Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time

For greater things you were born.” (Ven. Mother Luisita)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 15th   Mk. 2: 1-12   “They came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. Unable to get near Jesus because of the crowd, they opened up the roof above him. After they had broken through, they let down the mat on which the paralytic was lying.”

• Sin is compared to leprosy, to deafness, to blindness. Today’s Gospel reminds us that sin is also compared to paralysis.
• Sometimes we are the paralytic. It seems impossible for us to convert from habitual

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