30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham)

30th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham) Identify and Follow Today we have wonderful  story of blind Bartimaeus and this is a story about vocation and its story about you and me. The word vocation derives from the latine vocare “to call and for the Christian a...

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham)

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham) ETERNAL OPTIMISTS The gospel we read today comes immediately after the third prediction of Jesus about his suffering and death in Mark‘s gospel. It is not the first time; it is the third time that Jesus was telling them, “See,...

28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham)

28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham) WHAT TO BE SPIRITUAL HERO We live in a world of desires. Some are good and some are bad; some are spiritual and some are materialistic. Good or bad, desires dominate our live. That is why someone said ‘life is nothing but a...

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham)

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham) Some of you who are sitting here may be married for 30 or 40 years or even more. Some of you may be married only for few years. Some of you may be having only bad or good memories of marriage. And some of you may be just...

26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham)

26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham) PAY A PRICE Look at what Jesus says in the gospel today. One of the most difficult sayings. Jesus says; If your hand should cause you to sin, cut it off… and if your leg causes you to sin, cut it off…..and if your eye should...

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham)

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Simham) WHO IS THE GREASTEST Today’s gospel picks up exactly where last week’s gospel left. Remember, in last week’s gospel Jesus was there in Caesarea Philippi and questioned the disciples saying ‘who do the people say that I am?’...