Is 66:10-14; Jn 2:1-11 Today we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Our Lady of Lourdes is a title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary, recalling her apparitions in 1958 at the grotto in Lourdes, France, to Saint Bernadette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl. In her 18 apparitions, Mary revealed to Bernadette the importance […]
2 Kgs 5:1-15; Lk 4:24-30 Today’s Gospel highlights the rejection of Jesus in his own native place. It must be very surprising that his own country cousins found reasons to reject Jesus when he was enthusiastically received by most people and his popularity was ever soaring among them. Jesus comes across to us as someone
Gen 4:1-15, 25; Mk 8:11-13 Today’s Gospel shows Jesus as a victim of unbelief and rejection. Jesus does not yield to the demand of the Pharisees who seek a sign from heaven to prove his divine identity. The reason why Jesus resists their demand is the same as in the instance of him in the