Holy Redeemer Church Bangkok

 Twenty third Sunday in ordinary Time
Wis 9:13-18b/ Phim 9-10/ Lk 14:25-33
            In Luke’s Gospel today, Jesus talks to the big crowds following him. That audience extends through time and embraces us. We’re traveling with him too. And today we hear Jesus teaching with “hard saying”: if we don’t hate those we love, if we don’t’ [...]

Twenty-second Sunday in ordinary Time
 Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29/ Heb 12:18-19, 22-24a/ Lk 14:1, 7-14
What sort of people make you nervous? Powerful people? Weak People? Odd people? People you don’t know or understand? Who intrigues you?
          Movies, short stories, situation comedies, dramatic plays, and reality shows throw together people who don’t know each other to see [...]

Eighteen Sunday in ordinary Time
Eccl 1:2; 2:21-23/ Col 3:1-5, 9-11/ Lk 12:13-21
 The teacher in Ecclesiastes knows the shock of realizing that what a person builds over many decades can be left in an instant to another who does no work at all. His world was full of vanity.
          Jesus tells his audience about a man [...]

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gn 18: 20-32 / Col 2:12-14 / Lk 11:1-13
The disciples ask Jesus to teach them to pray. Were they surprised by his answer? Scripture scholars say that much in the Lord’s Prayer is found throughout the Jewish practice and worship the disciples and Jesus already shared.

 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Dt 30:10-14/ Col 1:15-20 / Lk 10:25-37
I was a little kid when my father taught my mother to use a stick shift. My sister and I sit in the back seat as the car jolted in stop and starts on the vacant parking lot near our house. My father was frustrated. [...]