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Education Cluster Homily Guide 2024 (Easter Sunday) • Devotion: Hoping for the Ultimate Reward

 

Katekismo Corner: On the Day of the Lord | 2023-2024 No.18b

 

Katekismo Corner: On Easter Sunday and the Resurrection of Jesus | 2023-2024 No.18a

 

Basilica Bulletin 2023-2024 No. 18: We rejoice today in the Resurrection of Christ

 

Education Cluster Homily Guide 2024 (Palm Sunday) • Devotion: Seeing the World from the Lens of the Cross

 

Katekismo Corner: On the Holy Week: Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord and the Paschal Triduum | 2023-2024 No.17b

 

Katekismo Corner: Palm Sunday | 2023-2024 No.17a

 

Basilica Bulletin 2023-2024 No. 17: Free to Love and Live

 

Education Cluster Homily Guide 2024 (5th Sunday of Lent) • Devotion: Dying ‘to Live’ for a Brighter Day

 

Katekismo Corner: On Lenten Devotions and Acts of Charity | 2023-2024 No.16b

 

Katekismo Corner: On Dying to produce much Fruit | 2023-2024 No.16a

 

Basilica Bulletin 2023-2024 No. 16: Life: A Grain of Wheat

 

Education Cluster Homily Guide 2024 (4th Sunday of Lent) • Devotion: Seeking the Salvation of Both Body and Soul

 

Katekismo Corner: On Laetare Sunday | 2023-2024 No.15b

 

Katekismo Corner: On the Son of Man lifted up... | 2023-2024 No.15a

 

Basilica Bulletin 2023-2024 No. 15 : Love, the secret of being lifted high

 

Education Cluster Homily Guide 2024 (3rd Sunday of Lent) • Devotion: A Cleansing of the Soul and the Society

“Is it wrong to be angry?” I remember asking this question to our Moral Theology professor in relation to the Gospel’s narrative this Sunday. “Are we committing sin when we get angry?” In today’s Gospel, St. John narrated to us a particular incidence when Jesus got angry. When He saw with his own eyes how some Jews converted the temple into a marketplace, He became enraged. If anger is sinful, how could Jesus fall into that trap?  Psychology says that anger is a natural emotion experienced by humans under certain circumstances such as injustices, impropriety, and abuses. It is a natural mechanism to preserve our dignity. Without anger, we lose our sense of humanity. Therefore, the reaction of Jesus was both natural and normal. He was zealous about the house of His Father, and desecrating that house infuriated him. In our priestly ministry, sometimes we find ourselves under the same circumstances. When something goes wrong, whether in the liturgy or in the rectory, we lose our tempe...