Scripture Reflections

Date: March 25, 2020 (Lent)

Bible Text: N/A | Fr. Roniel Duenas

Series: Scripture Reflections

Let Us Keep the Good News Coming I hear this most of the time at dinners: “Hey! I have an announcement!” and suddenly there is total silence and excitement and expectation! This is one of the things that amazes me here in America. Announcements are something big and special. I notice my

Date: March 24, 2020 (Lent)

Bible Text: Gospel reading: JN 5:1-16 | Fr. Roniel Duenas

Series: Scripture Reflections

Jesus is the High Priest and the Sheep Gate “Now there is in Jerusalem at the “Sheep Gate” a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes. In these, lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.” (John

Date: March 23, 2020 (Lent)

Bible Text: First Reading: IS 65:17-21; Gospel: JN 4:43-54 | Fr. Roniel Duenas

Series: Scripture Reflections

Thus says the Lord: “Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth…there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I create… No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there.” What we just heard from the book of the prophet Isaiah in today’s first

Date: March 21, 2020 (Lent)

Bible Text: HOS 6:1-6 | Fr. Roniel Duenas

Series: Scripture Reflections

“Come, let us return to the LORD, it is he who has rent, but he will heal us; he has struck us, but he will bind our wounds. He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, to live in his presence.” The words

Date: March 20, 2020 (Lent)

Bible Text: Mk. 12:28-34 | Fr. Roniel Duenas

Series: Scripture Reflections

And when Jesus saw that the scribe answered with understanding, he said to him, “You are not far from the Kingdom of God.”  Christ came to bring us the truth. In fact, He does not just speak the truth; He is truth Himself. This truth illumines us in our understanding of the