Queen Esther bares her heart to the Lord. She recognizes the supremacy of God. She expresses her total dependence of God and considers God as her only Saviour, while experiencing an intense feeling of frustration. Secondly, she recalls what she had been catechized in...
The first reading of today is a good example of what we heard in yesterday’s reading, viz. that the word that goes from the mouth of the Lord does not return to him empty but succeeds in what it was meant to do. Go orders Jonah. He obeys him. He warns the destruction...
Saint Polycarp is one of the Fathers of the early Church, and his letter to the Philippians is one of the early pieces of Christian writing in existence today. A disciples of the apostle John, he was a leader of the second generation of Christians, the first...
1 Peter 5: 1 – 4Psalm 23Matthew 16: 13 – 19 Mark places this incident at Caesarea Philippi. Luke, because of the importance he wishes to give to prayer in his Gospel, places it in the context of Jesus praying. But Matthew keeps it at Caesarea Philippi. In today’s...
