Category: Prayer Intention
“Remember, now, you have been cured.” —John 5:14 How could someone who had been sick for thirty-eight years forget that he had been healed earlier that day? Why would Jesus have to exhort him to remember that he had been cured? How could he be so ungrateful to Jesus and so forgetful of His love? Each year during Holy Week and on Easter Sunday, the Church reminds us to remember that we have been set free and healed by Jesus, our Redeemer. Yet how many of us forget His amazing mercy and become absorbed in our problems by Easter Monday?...
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Bible Quiz Competition in Tamil and English (Quiz- 75) “He and his whole household thereupon became believers. This was the second sign that Jesus performed.” –John 4:53-54 Jesus promised signs and wonders would accompany those professing their faith (Mk 16:17). Notice signs and wonders do not create faith as much as faith creates signs and wonders. Jesus disapproves of faith as merely an effect and makes it primarily the cause. He rebukes the people: “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you do not believe” (Jn 4:48). He called the royal official to believe before the healing of his son....
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“We are truly His handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to lead the life of good deeds.” –Ephesians 2:10 On Ash Wednesday, we began Lent, and the Lord commanded us to keep our works of mercy secret (Mt 6:4). At Easter Vigil, we begin the Easter season, and the Lord through the Church will ask us whether we reject all of Satan’s works. Works are important although we are not saved because of them (Eph 2:8-9). “Faith without works is dead” (Jas 2:26). We will accept or hate the light of Christ depending on our works, for those doing good works...
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“The Pharisee with head unbowed prayed in this fashion: ‘I give You thanks, O God, that I am not like the rest of men.’” –Luke 18:11 The Pharisee compared himself with the tax collector. He fell into the sin of pride, was not justified, and even deteriorated to the point of “holding everyone else in contempt” (Lk 18:9). Cain compared himself with Abel and became resentful and crestfallen (Gn 4:6). “Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him” (Gn 4:8), becoming the first murderer. Aaron and Miriam compared themselves to Moses. “So angry was the Lord against them that when...
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“What more has he to do with idols?” –Hosea 14:9 As a Catholic priest, I rarely hear Christians confess that they have committed the sin of idolatry, although the Lord in the Bible refers to idolatry as one of our major temptations. Idolatry is the sin against the first of the Ten Commandments (Ex 20:2ff). The prophets repeatedly prophesy against the worship of idols. The writer of the book of Wisdom makes the shocking statement: “The worship of infamous idols is the reason and source and extremity of all evil” (Wis 14:27). St. Paul warned: “I am telling you, whom...
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