The Hermit of Antipolo

Gospel reading: Matthew 18:15-20 What Jesus says about prayer today is often misunderstood or misused. He says, “Again, I say to you, if...

Gospel reading: Matthew 17:22-27 Don’t we sometimes say, “I have bad news and I have good news”? Thus Jesus tells his disciples about...

Today’s reading: Romans 9:1-5 What a great calling we have as Christians, as Catholics, as CFC-FFL. Christians are the new Israel....

Gospel Reading: Matthew 17:14-20 Jesus was exasperated. At what? “Because of your little faith.” (v.20a). His disciples had not been...

Gospel reading: Matthew 16:13-23 There are terrible words that we should never want to hear from our Lord Jesus. One is “I never knew...

Today’s readings: 2 Peter 1:16-19 Matthew 17:1-9 God said of Jesus, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”...

Today’s readings: Jeremiah 26:1-9 Psalm 69:5-14 Matthew 13:54-58 The life of a prophet is fraught with hardships and trials. This is not...

Today’s reading: Jeremiah 13:1-11 Every Christian has a prophetic role, as by virtue of Baptism, we all share in Christ’s office as...

Today we honor grandparents, as we look to Joachim and Anne, grandparents of Jesus. Mary gave birth to Jesus when she was about 14 years...

Today’s reading: Amos 5:14-24 “Seek good and not evil” (v.14a). This is a basic prescription, “that you may live” (v.14b). But this...

Today’s reading: Amos 3:1-4:12 Over and over the Lord says to Israel, “Yet you did not return to me.” The Lord speaks through prophets...

Gospel reading: John 6:60-69 Many, who are already Christians, cannot accept the hard teachings of the gospel. “Then many of his...

Jesus appeared to Mary of Magdala outside the tomb and said to her, “Whom are you looking for?” (Jn 20:15). Jesus might ask the same...

“Why do you seek the living one among the dead?” (Lk 24:5b). Jesus is alive. We love and serve a living God. Jesus is one who has...

Jesus has died and been buried, with a huge stone rolled across the entrance to the tomb. “But Mary Magdalene and the other Mary remained...

The women told the eleven disciples that Jesus had been raised. Then when they themselves “saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.”...

In his third prediction of his passion, Jesus said to his disciples, “the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the...

During Lent we look more closely at the suffering and death of Jesus, which we as Christians all know about. But for many Christians, it...

Jesus said to his disciples, "Not all of you are clean." (Jn 13:11b). Jesus says the same thing to us. And this Lent, we have a special...

We are disciples of Jesus and we follow him. But how closely? When Jesus was arrested, "Peter was following him at a distance" (Mt...