1ST READING: 1 Corinthians 9:16-19.22-27 Brethren: If I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I…
Author: L. Daniel George
L. Daniel George is a Priest, Writer, Lecturer and Gospel Musician.
Daily Scripture Readings – Thursday, September 12, 2024 (23rd Week in Ordinary Time Year II)
1ST READING: 1 Corinthians 8:1-7.11-13 Brethren: “Knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if one loves God, one is known by him. Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol…
Daily Reflection – Thursday, September 12, 2024 (23rd Week in Ordinary Time Year II)
Jesus reminds us today of the need to not only love our family members, friends or those who also love us. He puts before us the challenging yet rewarding call to love our enemies. “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them….
Daily Reflection – Friday, September 13, 2024 (Memorial, St. John Chrysostom)
John 3:27 tells us: “No one can have anything except what is given him.” Nemo dat quod non habet. (“No man can give what he does not have.”) . We see this expression vividly in our gospel today, how Jesus reveals to us Christians the credible and reliable leader through the analogy of the experience…
Daily Scripture Reading – September 11, 2024 (Wednesday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time – Year II)
1ST READING: 1 Corinthians 7:25-31 Brethren: Now concerning the unmarried, I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy. I think that in view of the present distress, it is well for a person to remain as he is. Are you bound to…
Daily Reading – Tuesday, September 10, 2024 (23rd Week in Ordinary Time Year II)
1ST READING: 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 Brethren: When one of you has a grievance against a brother, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try…
Daily Reading – September 9, 2024 – Memorial of Saint Peter Claver, Priest
Memorial of Saint Peter Claver, Priest Reading 1 1 COR 5:1-8 Brothers and sisters: It is widely reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of a kind not found even among pagans – a man living with his father’s wife. And you are inflated with pride. Should you not rather have been sorrowful?…
TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
FIRST READING A reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah 35:4-7a Thus says the LORD: Say to those whose hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not! Here is your God, he comes with vindication; with divine recompense he comes to save you. Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of…
BIOGRAPHY OF MOST REV. DR. GABRIEL BLAMO SNOSIO JUBWE
The son of a diplomat, Monsignor Gabriel Blamo Snosio Jubwe was born to Liberian parents from Sasstown (GrandKru County, Liberia) in Lagos (Nigeria) on September 7, 1958. The youngest of five children, he received the Sacraments of Initiation and attended Holy Cross Cathedral School and Nigeria Premier College in Lagos respectively. Providentially, it was while…
Daily Scripture Reading – September 7, 2024 (Saturday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time – Year II)
FIRST READING A reading from the First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (1Corinthians 4:6b-15) Brothers and sisters:Learn from myself and Apollos not to go beyond what is written so that none of you will be inflated with pride in favor of one person against another. Who confers distinction upon you? What do you…