Welcome to the 5th Sunday of lent! Isn’t our Lenten journey fascinating and joyful!? But what is more fascinating is that we have only two more weeks until the Easter celebration! Please continue our desert journey with Jesus, pray, fast and love and we’ll be blessed with the most beautiful Easter ever! Today’s Gospel teaches us that new life and eternal life…

Hopefully your week was blessed! This weekend we celebrate the fourth Sunday of Lent, called Laetare Sunday. Laetare is a Latin word that means “rejoice.” Even as we observe our Lenten sacrifices, we rejoice in anticipation of the joy that will be ours at Easter. Even as we experience crosses in our lives, we already rejoice with the future resurrection. It is…

Hello desert people 😉 How is your journey towards Easter with Jesus? Wherever you are on your journey don’t give up! During this Lenten time you can give up almost everything but NEVER give up on God, because He would NEVER give up on you! The central theme of today’s readings is the challenge to keep our Covenant agreement with Jesus Christ,…

How is your Lenten journey? How are you being with Jesus in the desert? Last Sunday, the First Sunday of Lent, we heard proclaimed St. Mark’s account of the temptation of Jesus. Having just been baptized by John in the Jordan, Jesus is “driven by the Spirit” into the wilderness where He will come face to face with Satan and the allurement…

Welcome to Lent 2021! For better understanding of what Lent is all about, let me tell you a story, whether it’s true or not, judge for yourself: “A mother camel and her baby were talking one day, and the baby camel asks, “Mom why have we got these huge three-toed feet?” The mother replies, “To enable us to trek across the soft…

If you wish, you can make me clean… I will do it, be made clean What a story we have in this last gospel during the ordinary time, just before we begin Lent 2021! This passage describes Jesus touching a sick man suffering from a severe case of leprosy and healing him instantly. In this miracle, we have all the essentials for…

HOPEFULLY YOUR LIFE IS BLESSED! After I read today’s Gospel for the first time, this question came to my mind: What is the reason that you are looking for Jesus??? Last week we heard about Jesus who heals a man with an unclean spirit in the synagogue. From the synagogue he goes to Peter’s house and heals his mother in-law who has…