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173 total views Lately everybody has been saying “Christmas is around the corner” or “Christmas is in the air” or simply “It’s Christmas”! This is the time of the year when we are most conscious of the season not of the Person behind the celebrations. Christmas is Jesus Christ, of God becoming human like us, of God dwelling and living
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129 total views FIRST THINGS FIRST | DECEMBER 5, 2021 LET US HEAR TODAY’S FIRST READING AND LISTEN TO BP. BRODERICK PABILLO AS HE EXPLAINS THE READINGS. #FirstThingsFirst #BpBroderickPabillo #Veritas846 #TVMaria
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112 total views Homily for 2nd Sunday of Advent, 05 December 2021, Lk 3:1-6 I am not surprised that John the Baptist was arrested, imprisoned, and eventually executed like a criminal. He was found in the same places which the rebels went to: the desert or the wilderness. In Tagalog they would say, NAMUNDOK SIYA. And
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178 total views The noun repentance or the verb to repent is very familiar already in our faith-life even in the original Greek: ‘metanoia’ ( μετανοία ). This is the core of the proclamation of St. John the Baptist in preparation for the coming of Jesus. St. Luke’s account (3:1-6) gives a distinctive character to John’s
