OXYGEN

31 Oct
Romans 8:26-30
And as well as this, the Spirit too comes to help us in our weakness, for, when we do not know how to pray properly, then the Spirit personally makes our petitions for us in groans that cannot be put into words; and he who can see into [...]

30 Oct
Romans 8:18-25
I think what we suffer in this life can never be compared to the glory, as yet unrevealed, which is waiting for us. The whole creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal his sons. It was not for any fault on the part of creation that it [...]

29 Oct
Romans 8:12-17
My brothers, there is no necessity for us to obey our unspiritual selves or to live unspiritual lives. If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put an end to the misdeeds of the body you will live. [...]

28 Oct – Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Lord, The Righteous Judge
The Lord is our judge. The one thing we know for certain about his judgement is that it favours the humble, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
- the Sunday Missal
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Ecclesiasticus 35:12-14, 16-19
The [...]

27 Oct
All the desolation of the poor, not only their material poverty but their spiritual wounds as well, need to be redeemed. We should share with them because only if we are united with them can we redeem them, bringing God to their lives and they, in turn, to God.
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26 Oct
Once more, today and yesterday, Jesus comes to his own and his own refuse to welcome him (John 1:11).
He comes in the broken bodies of the poor.
He also comes in the rich who are drowning in the loneliness of their own riches. He also comes in their [...]

25 Oct
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Romans 6:19-23
If I may use human terms to help your natural weakness: as once you put your bodies at the service of vice and immorality, so now you must put them at the service of righteousness for your sanctification.
When you were slaves of sin, you felt no [...]

24 Wed – Memorial for St. Anthony Mary Claret, bishop
St. Anthony Mary Claret (1807-1870) was a weaver before he joined the seminary where he was a student with Blessed Francis Coll, and was ordained on June 13, 1835. He became a missionary in Catalonia and the Canary Islands where he directed [...]

23 Oct – Memorial for St. John of Capistrano, priest
John of Capristrano (1386-1456) was the son of a former German knight who died when John was still young. He studied law at the University of Perugia and was a lawyer in Naples, Italy, before being the reforming governor of Perugia under [...]

22 Oct
If we do the work for God and for his glory, we may be sanctified.
- taken from “Mother Teresa In Her Own Words” by Jose Luis Gonzalez-Balado
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Romans 4:20-25
Since God had made him a promise, Abraham refused either to deny it or even to doubt it, but drew [...]