The Hermit of Antipolo

November 17, 2024 Today’s gospel: Mark 13:24-32           Jesus will come again, but no one knows when except the Father (v.32)....

November 15, 2024 Today’s reading: 2 John 1:4-9           As Christians we are called to be “walking in the truth just as we were...

October 15, 2024 Today’s gospel: Luke 11:37-41           Jesus was dining with a Pharisee, who was surprised that Jesus did not wash his...

October 12, 2024 Today’s reading: Galatians 3:22-29          Today we again have a number of scripture passages that modernists...

October 9, 2024 Today’s reading: Galatians 2:1-2,7-14           Jesus had called Peter, whom he had just appointed as head of the Church...

October 7, 2024 Today’s reading : Galatians 1:6-12           Paul had preached the gospel to the Galatians, but who now were listening to...

October 6, 2024 Today’s gospel:  Genesis 2:18-24 Psalm 128:1-6 Hebrews 2:9-11 Mark 10:2-16           The world today is dominated by...

September 29, 2024 Today’s gospel:  Mark 9:38-43,45,47-48           Pope Francis says that either there is no hell or if there is hell...

July 27, 2024 Today’s gospel: Matthew 13:24-30 Jesus told his disciples the parable of the weeds among the wheat. In the Kingdom of...

July 17, 2024 Today’s gospel: Matthew 11:25-27 Many Catholics, both lay and clergy, would find it scandalous, or at least unacceptable,...

July 16, 2024 Today’s gospel: Matthew 11:20-24 Jesus reproached the unrepentant towns of Chorazin and Bethsaida (v.20-22), warning...

July 15, 2024 Today’s readings: Isaiah 1:10-17 Psalm 50:8-9,16-17,21,23 Matthew 10:34-11:1 Jesus, the Prince of Peace, came not “to bring...

July 5, 2024 Today’s gospel: Matthew 9:9-13 Jesus came for sinners, and that is why he sat at table with tax collectors and sinners...

July 4, 2024 Today’s gospel: Matthew 9:1-8 Jesus says to the paralytic, “your sins are forgiven.” (v.2b). A modernist pastor would say to...

June 20, 2024 Today’s gospel: Matthew 6:7-15 Our personal prayer time is referred to as our quiet time. We are to remain quiet before...

June 12, 2024Today’s gospel: Matthew 5:17-19 People in Jesus’ time, hearing his radical preaching and even his criticism of religious...

June 11, 2024Today’s gospel: Matthew 10:7-13 Jesus sent out the apostles to proclaim the Kingdom of God. He told them what to do: “Cure...

June 9, 2024Today’s readings:Genesis 3:9-15Psalm 130:1-82 Corinthians 4:13-5:1Mark 3:20-35 Modernist teaching contradicts the word of God...

June 8, 2024Today’s reading: 2 Timothy 4:1-8 Paul warns Timothy, “For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine...

June 6, 2024Today’s readings:2 Timothy 2:8-15Psalm 25:4-5,8-10,14Mark 12:28-34 About the greatest commandments to love God and neighbor,...

May 27, 2024 Today’s readings: 1 Peter 1:3-9 Psalm 111:1-2,5-6,9-10 Mark 10:17-27 The goal of Christian faith is salvation, and...

May 14, 2024Today’s gospel: John 15:9-17 What has Jesus done for us?      First, he chose us. “It was not you who chose me, but I who...

A Chicago priest has blessed lesbians as holy spouses in a blasphemous ceremony, citing the Pope’s endorsement of same-sex blessings in...

The current Papacy continues with its assault on those who serve Jesus from orthodoxy and Tradition. It cancels bishops, priests and...

May 12, 2024Today’s gospel: Mark 16:15-20 The commissioning of the apostles right before Jesus ascended into heaven gives us three very...

May 3, 2024 Today’s reading: 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 The basis of our Catholic faith rests on three pillars: Sacred Scripture, Sacred...

April 28, 2024 Today’s readings: Acts 9:26-31 Psalm 22:27-29,31-321 John 3:18-24 John 15:1-8 Today our Church faces many challenges,...

April 26, 2024 Today’s gospel: John 14:1-6 Church modernists say that God wills a diversity of religions and that all religions lead to...

April 21, 2024 Today’s readings: Acts 4:8-12 Psalm 118:1,8-9,21-23,26,291 John 3:1-2 John 10:11-18 In our readings today, the scriptures...

April 19, 2024 Transgender ideology has enabled people to identify as amputees despite being healthy. In 2022, a healthy non-disabled...

April 19, 2024 Today’s gospel: John 6:52-59 Jesus told the Jews that he was the bread of life and that bread was his flesh. The Jews...

April 10, 2024 Today’s gospel: John 3:16-21 Modernists say that all religions lead to the divine. As such they deny the preeminence of...

April 7, 2024 Today’s gospel: John 20:19-31 Pope Francis tells priests not to ask too much during confessions, and instructs them to...

March 26, 2024 Today’s gospel: John 13:21-33,36-38 During the last supper, Jesus, deeply disturbed, told his disciples that one of them...

March 25, 2024 Today’s gospel: John 12:1-11 The poor or Jesus. What is our priority? Both are crucially important of course, but the...

March 17, 2024 Today’s reading: Jeremiah 31:31-34 God took the initiative to choose a people and enter into covenant with them. These...

March 16, 2024 Today’s reading: John 7:40-53 Those in the crowd had different ideas about who Jesus was. “This is truly the Prophet.”...

March 7, 2024 Today’s readings: Jeremiah 7:23-28 Psalm 95:1-2,6-9 Luke 11:14-23 Jesus drove out a demon from a mute person, healing him...

October 8, 2023 Readings: Isaiah 5:1-7 Psalm 80:9,12-16,19-20 Philippians 4:6-9 Matthew 21:33-43 God planted the vine that is Israel. “He...

March 13, 2024Today’s readings:Isaiah 49:8-15Psalm 145:8-9,13-14,17-18John 5:17-30 “The Lord is gracious and merciful” (Ps 145:8a). Grace...

Today’s readings: Leviticus 19:1-2,17-18 Psalm 103:1-4,8,10,12-13 1 Corinthians 3:16-23 Matthew 5:38-48 Today’s readings provide much...

Today’s readings: Genesis 11:1-9 Psalm 33:10-15 Mark 8:34-9:1 Modernism at its core is looking to the well-being of man but at the...

Today’s reading: Mark 8:14-21 Today’s gospel pointS out more things to us about modernism. Jesus reminded his disciples of the two times...

Today’s reading: Matthew 5:17-37 In today’s gospel reading, Jesus teaches about a number of things. What he taught was obviously needed...

The stupidity of woke continues unabated, especially in the West. Canadian university to put feminine hygiene product dispensers in men’s...

Today’s readings: Genesis 1:20-2:4a Mark 7:1-13 In today’s gospel, we have a good definition of modernism. Jesus says to the Pharisees...

Today’s reading: Ephesians 3:14-21 Paul prays for the Ephesians that they would deepen their understanding of God’s plan of salvation....

Today’s reading: Ephesians 1:15-23 Paul extolled the Ephesians, after “hearing of your faith in the Lord Jesus and of your love for all...

Today’s gospel: Luke 11:47-54 Jesus rebuked the scholars of the law. “Woe to you, scholars of the law!” (v.52a). Today these would be...

Today’s gospel: Luke 11:42-46 Jesus says that the Pharisees “love the seat of honor” but “pay no attention …. to love for God.”...