Year A Ash Wednesday

[Joel 2:12-18; 2Cor 5:20-6:2; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18]

To help us understand the significance of lent the Church makes use of a sign, the sign of ashes. Ashe is blessed and imposed on the forehead of each one of us.

Ash is an object of daily contact. Every one, young or old, come in contact with ash or dust, and everyone knows that it is one of the things of least importance.

Year A 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time

[Is. 49:14-15; 1 Cor. 4:1-5; Mt. 6:24-34]

John Hay’s poem the enchanted shirt humorously describes the nature of human beings to always indulge in worries. There was a king, who thought that he was sick, though he was very healthy and he ate and drank heartily; and enjoyed a peaceful sleep. Since the king said that he was sick,

Year A 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time

[Lev 19:1-2, 17-18; 1 Cor 3:16-23; Mt 5:38-48]

In the winter of 326 BC, Alexander personally led a campaign against the clans of the Assakenoi of the Swat and Buner valleys. A fierce contest ensued. The Assakenoi fought bravely and offered stubborn resistance to Alexander in the strongholds of Massaga. The fort of Massaga could