Today’s Readings – Saturday of Week 10 of Ordinary Time - First Reading

Commentary on 2 Corinthians 5:14-21

Paul continues in his own defence. If his behaviour seemed objectionable, it was simply because he was acting in and through the Lord. But he speaks in a spirit not of antagonism, but of reconciliation. He tells the Corinthians of the force that is behind everything he does and says:

For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died. And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for the one who for their sake died and was raised.


Christ’s love for us was so great that he gave his life so that we might have life. He said:

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. (John 15:13)


But our response to … Continue

Yesterday’s Readings – Saint Anthony (Antony) of Padua, Priest and Doctor

Anthony was born in Lisbon, Portugal, about the year 1195 to a very wealthy family, the son of Martim Vicente de Bulhão and Teresa Pais Taveira, who wanted him to become a noble. However, Anthony had other ambitions. Against the wishes of his family, he entered the Augustinian Abbey of St … Continue