Monthly Archive: August 2023

Read­ing Time: 2 minutesIntro­duc­tion This Sunday Gos­pel read­ing presents before us a very vital theme: iden­tity. There are vari­ous and var­ied defin­i­tions of iden­tity. Gen­er­ally, iden­tity is the con­di­tion of being the same as some­thing described, claimed,…

Read­ing Time: 3 minutesIntro­duc­tion After feed­ing the crowd spir­itu­ally and mater­i­ally (cf. Matt 14:13–21), Jesus dis­missed them after ask­ing the twelve dis­ciples to pre­cede him to their next des­tin­a­tion. Hav­ing dis­missed them, he now with­drew to the…

Read­ing Time: 2 minutesIntro­duc­tion    This Sunday is the 18^th Sunday (A) of the Church’s litur­gic­al cal­en­dar. Since August 6, 2023, which hap­pens to be the feast of the Trans­fig­ur­a­tion of Jesus, occurs on a Sunday, the…