The Hermit of Antipolo
The Signs of the End (Modernism Part 95)
November 17, 2024 Today’s gospel: Mark 13:24-32 Jesus will come again, but no one knows when except the Father (v.32)....
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Nov 152 min read
The Meaning of Love (Modernism Part 94)
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...
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Oct 152 min read
CLEAN OUTSIDE BUT FILTHY INSIDE (Modernism Part 93)
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...
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Oct 132 min read
Misinterpreting Scripture (Modernism Part 92)
October 12, 2024 Today’s reading: Galatians 3:22-29 Today we again have a number of scripture passages that modernists...
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Oct 92 min read
Confronting Peter (Modernism Part 91)
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...
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Oct 73 min read
A DIFFERENT GOSPEL (Modernism Part 90)
October 7, 2024 Today’s reading : Galatians 1:6-12 Paul had preached the gospel to the Galatians, but who now were listening to...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Oct 73 min read
REFUTED BY SCRIPTURE – 2 (Modernism Part 89)
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...
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Sep 302 min read
Reality of Hell (Modernism Part 88)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Jul 273 min read
Weeds among the Wheat (Thought for the Day Part 119)
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...
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Jul 172 min read
Jesus and the Childlike (Modernism Part 87)
July 17, 2024 Today’s gospel: Matthew 11:25-27 Many Catholics, both lay and clergy, would find it scandalous, or at least unacceptable,...
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Jul 162 min read
The Need for Repentance (Modernism Part 86)
July 16, 2024 Today’s gospel: Matthew 11:20-24 Jesus reproached the unrepentant towns of Chorazin and Bethsaida (v.20-22), warning...
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Jul 153 min read
Modernists Divide the Church
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...
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Jul 51 min read
The Need for a Physician (Modernism Part 84)
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...
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Jul 42 min read
Contrast in Approach to Sinners (Modernism Part 83)
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...
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Jun 203 min read
The Lord's Prayer (The Way Forward in Christ Part 224)
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...
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Jun 132 min read
The Law of God (Modernism Part 82)
June 12, 2024Today’s gospel: Matthew 5:17-19 People in Jesus’ time, hearing his radical preaching and even his criticism of religious...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Jun 132 min read
Proclaiming the Kingdom (Modernism Part 81)
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...
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Jun 93 min read
Refuted by Scripture (Modernism Part 80)
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...
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Jun 93 min read
Judgement Day (Modernism Part 79)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Jun 63 min read
The Two Great Commandments (Modernism Part 78)
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,...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
May 273 min read
Salvation and Heaven (Modernism Part 77)
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...
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May 153 min read
Being Friends of Jesus (The Way Forward in Christ Part 223)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
May 131 min read
THE WORLD AT AN END #163 -- Blessing a same-sex couple as holy spouses
A Chicago priest has blessed lesbians as holy spouses in a blasphemous ceremony, citing the Pope’s endorsement of same-sex blessings in...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
May 131 min read
THE WORLD AT AN END #162 -- Smoke of Satan in the Church
The current Papacy continues with its assault on those who serve Jesus from orthodoxy and Tradition. It cancels bishops, priests and...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
May 133 min read
Commissioned by Christ (Modernism Part 76)
May 12, 2024Today’s gospel: Mark 16:15-20 The commissioning of the apostles right before Jesus ascended into heaven gives us three very...
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May 52 min read
Scripture, Tradition, Magisterium (Modernism Part 75)
May 3, 2024 Today’s reading: 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 The basis of our Catholic faith rests on three pillars: Sacred Scripture, Sacred...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Apr 293 min read
A Church at Peace and Growing (The Way Forward in Christ Part 222)
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,...
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Apr 283 min read
Jesus is The Way and The Truth and The Life (Modernism Part 74)
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...
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Apr 223 min read
Jesus is the Cornerstone (Modernism Part 73)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Apr 211 min read
The Ridiculous, Inane and Simply Stupid - 16 (Assaults on Faith, Family and Life Part 159)
April 19, 2024 Transgender ideology has enabled people to identify as amputees despite being healthy. In 2022, a healthy non-disabled...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Apr 192 min read
The Eucharist - 2 (Thought of the day part 118)
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...
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Apr 112 min read
Jesus is the One True Light (Modernism Part 72)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Apr 83 min read
Forgiving Always (Modernism Part 71)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Mar 263 min read
The Eucharist (Thought for the Day Part 117)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Mar 262 min read
The Poor and Jesus (Modernism Part 70)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Mar 182 min read
God's Covenant (Part 116)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Mar 183 min read
Who is Jesus? (Part 115)
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.”...
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Mar 134 min read
Discipleship and Mission (The Way Forward in Christ Part 221)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Mar 133 min read
Rebuilding the Vineyard (The Way Forward in Christ Part 220)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Mar 133 min read
Grace and Mercy (Thought for the Day 114)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Feb 19, 20233 min read
Back to Basics (Modernism Part 62)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Feb 17, 20232 min read
The New World Order (Modernism Part 61)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Feb 14, 20232 min read
Failing to See or Understand (Modernism Part 60)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Feb 12, 20232 min read
Overturning Jesus’ Teachings – 2 (Modernism Part 59)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Feb 10, 20231 min read
The Ridiculous, Inane and Simply Stupid – 15 (Assaults on Faith, Family, and, Life Part 158)
The stupidity of woke continues unabated, especially in the West. Canadian university to put feminine hygiene product dispensers in men’s...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Feb 7, 20233 min read
MODERNISM AND CREATION (Modernism Part 58)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Oct 20, 20222 min read
Strengthen with Power (Our Theme for 2022)
Today’s reading: Ephesians 3:14-21 Paul prays for the Ephesians that they would deepen their understanding of God’s plan of salvation....
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Oct 15, 20222 min read
Faith and Love That are in Jesus - 2 (Our Theme for 2023 Part 9)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Oct 13, 20222 min read
Woe To Scholars of the Law (Modernism Part 57)
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...
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The Hermit of Antipolo
Oct 12, 20222 min read
Two Kinds of Love (Our Theme for 2023 Part 8)
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.”...
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