It is 18th February 2015. THE ASH WEDNESDAY. A day of Fasting and Abstinence. The Readings are taken Joel 2:12-18; 2Cor 5:20; 6:2 and the Gospel from Mt. 6:1-6, 16-18. The first reading provides a turning point by the prophet. Today starts a new way of looking at our spiritual journey with our God. It […]
It is 17th February 2015. The Readings are from Gen.6:5-8; 7:1-5,10 and the Gospel is from Mk. 8:14-21. The first reading reports us that humankind is growing in wickedness and God’s reaction to it. Human beings were growing in evil day after day. God is so sorrowful to see what is going on with human […]
It is 16th February 2015. The Readings are from Gen. 4:1-15, 25 and the Gospel is from Mk. 8:11-13. The First reading informs about the First Brothers, their relationship with God and the First murder in the Bible. Cain became a farmer while Abel was a shepherd. Both brought their gifts to God. God accepted […]
It is 15th February 2015. It is 6th Sunday of the Ordinary Time. The Readings are from Lev. 13:1-2, 44-46; 1 Cor. 10:31-11:1 and the Gospel from Mk. 1:40-45. The first reading invites us to view the attitude of the people of Israel had towards leprosy and the rules for quarantining the person. In the […]
It is 13th February 2015. The Readings are from Gen. 3:1-8 and the Gospel from Mk. 7:31-37. The first reading brings forward the disobedience of the human beings. The human beings budged to the cunningness of the serpent. A bulging desire to become like God in human beings destroys their inner connection with God and […]
It is 12th February 2015. The Readings are from Gen. 2:18-25 and the Gospel from Mk 7:24-30. The first reading describes about the creation of woman. God’s concern for man ends in finding a suitable companion for him in creating someone from human flesh. Man was created from the dust while woman is created from […]
It is 11th February 2015. The Readings are from Gen. 2:4b-9, 15-17 and the Gospel from Mk. 7:14-23. It is the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes. The First Reading speaks about another account of Creation with its style and details different from the first one. The first account was written by the Priestly tradition […]
It is 10th February 2015. The Readings are from Gen. 1:20-2:4a and the Gospel from Mk. 7:1-13. It is the memorial of St. Scholastica, a Virgin. She is the twin sister of St. Benedict. She devoted her life to God from the early childhood. The first reading brings out the culmination of creation of God […]
It is 09th February 2015. The Readings are from Gen 1:1-19 and the Gospel from Mk.6:53-56. The first reading teaches us that God created the world. God dispelled the darkness and gave form and filled the earth. God’s Spirit was hovering over and existing even before God put them all in order so that human […]