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Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 15: “Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth: it is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword.” (Mt 10, 34) Speaker: Nnenna (Lectio Divina Team) & Music/Audio Production by Michael, LOVVD Music Director Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lov_verbumdei/ Any prayer intentions? Send them to us...

« Take nothing with you » Homily on the Gospel according to Mark 6:7-13 by Father John McGowan OCD Please remember that through the blessing of Fr John our Loving Father is bestowing His infinite grace upon us all. May we keep on praying for one another and remembering that God loves us and is with us at all times, in our difficulties and toils, He is even more present since He took all of our suf...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 14: “You will be hated by all men on account of my name; but the man who stands firm to the end will be saved. If they persecute you in one town, take refuge in the next; and if they persecute you in that, take refuge in another. I tell you solemnly, you will not have gone the round of the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.” (Mt 10,22-23) Speaker: Magdy (Lec...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 14: “Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘As you go, proclaim that the kingdom of heaven is close at hand. Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils. You received without charge, give without charge. Provide yourselves with no gold or silver, not even with a few coppers for your purses, with no haversack for the journey or spare tunic or f...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 14: “Jesus summoned his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits with power to cast them out and to cure all kinds of diseases and sickness.” (Mt 10,1) Speaker: Davi (Lectio Divina Team) Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lov_verbumdei/ Any prayer intentions? Send them to us by email and our prayer group will pray for them on Wedn...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 14: “Jesus made a tour through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the kingdom and curing all kinds of diseases and sickness. And when he saw the crowds he felt sorry for them because they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd.” (Mt 9,35-36) Speaker: Sarah (Lectio Divina Team) Follow us on Instagra...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 14: “When Jesus reached the official’s house and saw the flute-players, with the crowd making a commotion he said, ‘Get out of here; the little girl is not dead, she is asleep’. And they laughed at him. But when the people had been turned out he went inside and took the little girl by the hand; and she stood up. And the news spread all round the countryside.” (Mt 9,23...

« A prophet is only despised in his own country » Homily on the Gospel according to Mark 6:1-6 by Father John McGowan OCD Please remember that through the blessing of Fr John our Loving Father is bestowing His infinite grace upon us all. May we keep on praying for one another and remembering that God loves us and is with us at all times, in our difficulties and toils, He is even more present since...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 13: “When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, ‘Why does your master eat with tax collectors and sinners?’ When [Jesus] heard this he replied, ‘It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick. Go and learn the meaning of the words: What I want is mercy, not sacrifice. And indeed I did not come to call the virtuous, but sinners.’” (Mt 9,11-13) Sp...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 13 - Feast of Saint Oliver Plunket, Bishop, Martyr: “Jesus got back in the boat, crossed the water and came to his own town. Then some people appeared, bringing him a paralytic stretched out on a bed. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, ‘Courage, my child, your sins are forgiven’.” (Mt 9,1-2) Speaker: Massimo (Lectio Divina Team) Follow us on Instagram -...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 13 - Feast of The Dedication of the Cathedral (The First Martyrs of the See of Rome): “When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, 'Who do people say the Son of Man is?' And they said, 'Some say he is John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets'. 'But you,' he said 'who do you say I am?'” (Mt...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 13 - Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles: “Then Simon Peter spoke up, ‘You are the Christ,’ he said ‘the Son of the living God’. Jesus replied, ‘Simon son of Jonah, you are a happy man! Because it was not flesh and blood that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven. So I now say to you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church. […] I will gi...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 13 - Feast of Saint Irenaeus, Bishop & Martyr: “Another man, one of his disciples, said to him, ‘Sir, let me go and bury my father first.’ But Jesus replied, ‘Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their dead.’” (Mt 8, 17-20) Speaker: Daisy (Lectio Divina Team) Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lov_verbumdei/ Any prayer intentions? Send them to us by e...

« Little girl, I tell you to get up » Homily on the Gospel according to Mark 5:21-43 by Father John McGowan OCD Please remember that through the blessing of Fr John our Loving Father is bestowing His infinite grace upon us all. May we keep on praying for one another and remembering that God loves us and is with us at all times, in our difficulties and toils, He is even more present since He took a...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 12: “After Jesus had come down from the mountain large crowds followed him. A leper now came up and bowed low in front of him. ‘Sir,’ he said ‘if you want to, you can cure me.’ Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him and said, ‘Of course I want to! Be cured!” (Mt 8, 1-3) Speaker: Nikhil (Lectio Divina Team) Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lov_verb...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 12 - Solemnity of the Birthday of Saint John the Baptist: “Now on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; they were going to call him Zechariah after his father, but his mother spoke up. ‘No,’ she said ‘he is to be called John.’ They said to her, ‘But no one in your family has that name’, and made signs to his father to find out what he wanted him called. Th...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 12: In the same way, a sound tree produces good fruit but a rotten tree bad fruit. A sound tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor a rotten tree bear good fruit. Any tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown on the fire. I repeat, you will be able to tell them by their fruits.” (Mt 7,17-20) Speaker: Chidiebere Samuel (Lectio Divina Team) Follow us on Instag...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 12 - Feast of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More: “[Jesus said to his disciples:] ‘Then they will hand you over to be tortured and put to death; and you will be hated by all the nations on account of my name. […] Many false prophets will arise; they will deceive many, and with the increase of lawlessness, love in most men will grow cold; but the man who stands firm to...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 12 - Feast of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga: “Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Do not judge and you will not be judged; because the judgements you give are the judgements you will get, and the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given. Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the plank in your own?” (Mt 7:1-3) Speaker: Alice (Lectio Di...

« Even the wind and the sea obey him » Homily on the Gospel according to Mark 4:35-41 by Father John McGowan OCD Please remember that through the blessing of Fr John our Loving Father is bestowing His infinite grace upon us all. May we keep on praying for one another and remembering that God loves us and is with us at all times, in our difficulties and toils, He is even more present since He took...

"L.O.V. = Legere - Orare - Vivere: To Read, To Pray, To Live the Word made flesh, our Lord Jesus Christ" Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 11: “Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and woodworms destroy them and thieves can break in and steal. But store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor woodworms destroy them and thiev...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 11: “Jesus said to his disciples: ‘In your prayers do not babble as the pagans do, for they think that by using many words they will make themselves heard. Do not be like them; your Father knows what you need before you ask him. […] Yes, if you forgive others their failings, your heavenly Father will forgive you yours; but if you do not forgive others, your Father wil...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 11: “Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Be careful not to parade your good deeds before men to attract their notice; by doing this you will lose all reward from your Father in heaven. […]But when you give alms, your left hand must not know what your right is doing; your almsgiving must be secret, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.” (Mt 6:1...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 11: “For if you love those who love you, what right have you to claim any credit? Even the tax collectors do as much, do they not? And if you save your greetings for your brothers, are you doing anything exceptional? Even the pagans do as much, do they not? You must therefore be perfect just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Mt 5:46-48) Speaker: Reagan (Guest memb...

Ordinary Time (Year B) - Week 11: “On the contrary, if anyone hits you on the right cheek, offer him the other as well; if a man takes you to law and would have your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone orders you to go one mile, go two miles with him. Give to anyone who asks, and if anyone wants to borrow, do not turn away.” (Mt 5:39-42) Speaker: Kathleen (Lectio Divina Team) - h...