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Biblical reflections

Sunday’s gospel reflections written by the Xaverian Missionaries.

“Master, I want to see”

Oct 25, 2015
Today’s gospel tells us about Jesus healing a blind man named Bartimaeus meaning, from Hebrew, son of Timaeus, and most probably…
Sunday 30th
Ordinary Time
Year B
Mark 10:46-52
835

What must I do to inherit eternal life?

Oct 11, 2015
Today’s gospel presents us a man full of enthusiasm, fire, and energy who comes running up to Jesus with an important question fo…
Sunday 28th
Ordinary Time
Year B
Mark 10:17-27
1115

The family that prays together stays together

Oct 4, 2015
It is providential that this Sunday the Church starts the Synod on family and at the same time the gospel speaks about the burnin…
Sunday 27th
Ordinary Time
Year B
Mark 10:2-16
750

For whoever is not against us is for us

Sep 27, 2015
This Sunday’s gospel tells us about one of the disciples, John, saying to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons…
Sunday 26th
Ordinary Time
Year B
Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48
752

The logic of the Gospel

Sep 20, 2015
Last Sunday, we heard from the gospel that Jesus, leaving for the villages round Caesarea Philippi, asked his disciples a questio…
Sunday 25th
Ordinary Time
Year B
Mark 9:30-37
740

Called to purify our image of God

Sep 13, 2015
Today’s gospel tells us about Jesus who, with his disciples, is heading to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. It is not by chance…
Sunday 24th
Ordinary Time
Year B
Mark 8:27-35
689

Accept differences, dispel indifference

Sep 6, 2015
In this twenty-third Sunday in ordinary time, the liturgy invites us to ponder on the healing done by Jesus on a man who is a dea…
Sunday 23rd
Ordinary Time
Year B
Mark 7:31-37
718

Benefits of embracing God’s word

Aug 30, 2015
The three readings of this twenty-second Sunday in ordinary time underscore the importance of welcoming and living the Word of Go…
Sunday 22nd
Ordinary Time
Year B
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
1963

Master, to whom shall we go?

Aug 23, 2015
Three Sundays ago, we meditated on Jesus’ teachings about the “Bread of life.”  The Jews did not follow Jesus not because He…
Sunday 21st
Ordinary Time
Year B
John 6:60-69
1150

Let us live wisely

Aug 16, 2015
The liturgy continues to present us the discourse of Jesus about the “Bread of life” that we have meditated on two Sundays ago. T…
Sunday 20th
Ordinary Time
Year B
John 6:51-58
654