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Thursday, October 23 2025 29th OT Rm 6:19-23 "You are not under the law but under grace. (v. 14)" We are God's friends. Lk 12:49-53 Jesus said: "For from now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three." This division may seem like family tensi...

Wednesday, October 22 2025 29th OT Rm 6:12-18 "Present yourselves to God as raised from the dead to life." Let us welcome God's life with joy. Lk 12:39-48 Jesus said: "You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come." We are, in this moment, ...

Tuesday, October 21 2025 29th OT Rm 5:12, 15b, 17-19, 20b-21 "How much more did the grace of God and the gracious gift of the one person Jesus Christ overflow for the many?" Yes, and grace is poured out on us and in us too. Lk 12:35-38 This sentence is quite simple: Jesus says, "Be li...

Monday, October 20 2025 29th OT Rm 4:20-25 "Abraham gave glory to God and was fully convinced that what he had promised." Jesus accomplished everything. God accomplishes everything with Love. Lk 12:13-21 Ah, the wisdom of God! Jesus said, "The things you have prepared, to whom will th...

Sunday, October 19 2025 28th OT Ex 17:8-13 "As long as Moses kept his hands raised up, Israel had the better of the fight." What is certain is that it was not God who made them stronger, since God is not at war. God is Love, peace, and joy. 2 Tim 3:14 – 4:2 "From infancy you have know...

Saturday, October 18 2025 28th OT 2 Tim 4:10-17b Saint Paul says: "Luke is the only one with me." It is a joyful experience to know people who move forward in peace and joy, in the Love of God. The Lord's evangelization is transmitted through simple joy, the joy of a child. The basis of a ...

Friday, October 17 2025 28th OT Rm 4:1-8 "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." Listening to God, helps a person become more righteous, more in tune with God's Love. Lk 12:1-7 In today's Psalm (Ps 31 (32):1-2, 5ab, 5c.11), it is written: "Blessed is the m...

Thursday, October 16 2025 28th OT Rm 3:21-30 "A person is justified by faith apart from works of the law." A person becomes righteous by welcoming the Righteous One, Jesus. God's righteousness is transmitted by His Love. The only law, the one on which we base ourselves, is that of God's Lo...

Wednesday, October 15 2025 28th OT Rm 2:1-11 "By the standard by which you judge another you condemn yourself." We only know the 1% of a person. And their failings are not their reality. Let us learn to entrust to the Lord the evils and discomforts we see in a person. This will detach us f...

Tuesday, October 14 2025 28th OT Rm 1:16-25 "Although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God." God's Love is the Intelligence that leads us in our hearts to listen to the peace and joy of the Lord. Luke 11:37-41 "Of course, you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and ...

Monday, October 13 2025 28th OT Rom 1:1-7 "Through him we have received the grace of apostleship." We receive God's grace. For the sake of our mission, let us listen to what the Holy Spirit, the Love of God, says to our hearts. Luke 11:29-32 Jesus said: "This generation is an evil gen...

Sunday, October 12 2025 28th OT 2 Kings 5:14-17 I invite us to read the complete story of King Naaman and Elisha. Here, we only have the end. It is worth the joy of reading this story starting from verse 1. 2 Kings 14:1-17 Naaman was a general, and a leper. He was sent to Elisha, who did not receive...

Saturday, October 11 2025 27th OT Joel 4:12-21 "Wield the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; Come and tread, for the wine press is full; The vats overflow, for their crimes are numerous. Crowds upon crowds in the Valley of Decision; For near is the day of the Lord in the Valley of Decision."...

Friday, October 10 2025 27th OT Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2 "O! The day! For near is the day of the Lord, like destruction from the Almighty it is coming!" Never again, blame God, never again. God harms no one. God is Love, peace, and joy. Luke 11:15-26 Jesus explains this: “When an unclean spirit...

Thursday, October 9 2025 27th OT Mal 3:13-20a It is difficult in the Old Testament, and also in the New, not to portray God as someone who lacks Love. It is written: "The day of the Lord is coming, blazing like an oven." God is Love, joy, and peace. Nothing more, nothing less. Yet the Lord...

Wednesday, October 8 2025 27th OT Jo 4:1-11 "I, God, should I not be concerned over the great city of Nineveh?" Let’s remember, it’s the people who punish himself and ask for pity. God has no need to punish. God is Love. Love is 100% Luke 11:1-4 The prayer Jesus taught the disciples is: Fa...

Tuesday, October 7 2025 27th OT Jonah 3:1-10 "When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil he had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out." It is the people's evil ways that cause their own punishment. Here, the people do not realize ...

Monday, October 6 2025 27th OT Jon 1:1-2:1.11 "The Lord sent a violent wind into the sea, and a great storm arose, so that the ship was about to break up." The earth has its own movements. Let us remember, God is peace. Luke 10:25-37 A scholar asks Jesus: "Who is my neighbor?" Lo...

Sunday, October 5 2025 27th OT Ha 1:2-3; 2:2-4 "The just one who is righteous because of faith shall live." Indeed, God loves the person, and the person who allows himself to be loved by God becomes adjusted, becomes righteous. We live by the grace of God. 2 Tim 1:6-8, 13-14 "Do not b...

Saturday, October 4 2025 26th OT Bar 4:5-12, 27-29 "You provoked your Maker with sacrifices to demons and not to God." Those who are angered and distant from Love are those who offer sacrifices to demons. They provoke and harm themselves. Luke 10:17-24 "Rejoice because your names are ...