Posts from July 2023

Sunday Homily, July 30, 2023 Texts: 1 Kings 3:5, 7-12; Rom 8:28-30; Matt 13:44-52  THE KINGDOM OF THE HEAVENS, WISDOM, AND GOD’S PURPOSE The past two Sundays have presented us with the parables of the Lord. These parables reference God’s kingdom or the kingdom of the heavens. In other words, the Lord Jesus Christ tells the parables in order to expose and teach lessons about the kingdom of God. On this Sunday also, we have another cluster of three parables…

THE SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN THE ORDINARY TIME, YEAR A (Readings: Wis 12:13, 16-19; Rom 8:26-27; Matt 13:24-43) by Augustine Agwulonu, OP. God’s kingdom dwells and rules in our hearts! Today’s Sunday Gospel continues to present Jesus’ authoritative teaching in parables. Our Lord has been identified as the greatest Master of parables in history. He captures the idea of God’s kingdom with the imaginatively exciting and thought provoking parabolic form of speech. We read and reflected on the parable of the sower…