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TRUTH IN THE ERA OF FAKE NEWS
31 Jesus then said to those Jews who believed in him, “If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, 32 and you will know the...
Joel Camaya
Mar 20, 20243 min read
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NO PROPHET ACCEPTED IN HIS NATIVE PLACE
Monday of the Third Week of Lent Lk 4:24-30 NO PROPHET IS ACCEPTED IN HIS OWN NATIVE PLACE. We Jesus at the beginning of his ministry. ...
Joel Camaya
Mar 4, 20241 min read
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Worthy Tenants
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 33 “Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard,[aa] put a hedge around it, dug a...
Joel Camaya
Oct 7, 20233 min read
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Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (for Daddy, 1931-2012)
(Homily at the Salesian Family Mass at my Father's Wake, Santo Nino Parish, Bamban, Tarlac, Sept 20, 2012) It was only about six months...
Joel Camaya
Sep 18, 20237 min read
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Only Say the Word
When Jesus had finished all his words to the people, he entered Capernaum. A centurion there had a slave who was ill and about to die,...
Joel Camaya
Sep 18, 20232 min read
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Tombs
27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside...
Joel Camaya
Aug 30, 20232 min read
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Preparing for a Holy Death
42 Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. 43 Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known...
Joel Camaya
Aug 30, 20233 min read
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Mission to the End
17 Herod was the one who had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, whom he had...
Joel Camaya
Aug 29, 20233 min read
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Promises
13 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves,...
Joel Camaya
Aug 28, 20233 min read
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Kilalá vs. Kilála
13 When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14 They...
Joel Camaya
Aug 27, 20232 min read
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What Not to Do as a Leader
1 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, 2 saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees have taken their seat on the chair of...
Joel Camaya
Aug 26, 20233 min read
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Love as the Greatest Commandment
34 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, 35 and one of them [a scholar of the law] tested...
Joel Camaya
Aug 25, 20232 min read
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An Encounter with the Lord (Feast of St. Bartholomew)
45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the prophets, Jesus son of...
Joel Camaya
Aug 24, 20233 min read
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Bad Business Practice?
1 “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 After agreeing with them for the...
Joel Camaya
Aug 23, 20233 min read
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A Camel? A Yarn?
23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I...
Joel Camaya
Aug 22, 20233 min read
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The Five Fruits
Five of the "Seven Species" (Deut 8:7-8) from my camera (taken in Jerusalem, 21 Aug 2023) The five fruits: GRAPES, FIGS, POMEGRANATES,...
Joel Camaya
Aug 22, 20231 min read
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Going Further
16 Now someone approached him and said, “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?” 17 He answered him, “Why do you ask me about...
Joel Camaya
Aug 21, 20232 min read
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Ending Divisions
21 Then Jesus went from that place and withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came...
Joel Camaya
Aug 20, 20232 min read
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Let the Children Come to Me
13 Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked them, 14 but Jesus said, “Let...
Joel Camaya
Aug 19, 20232 min read
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One Flesh
3 Some Pharisees approached him, and tested him, saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?” 4 He said...
Joel Camaya
Aug 18, 20233 min read
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