2 Sun./ Adv. A: Responding to John the Baptist’s call to repentance

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2 Sunday of Advent, Year A

Is 11:1-10; Rom 15:4-9; Mt 3:1-12

Introduction: This is a homily/Scripture reflection in a book, titled: ‘Every Week God Speaks We Respond’ Cycle A, intended to be published in the future by Reverend John Tran Binh Trong. It was published in Vietnamese in the US 2009 and republished in Viet Nam 2012. To keep the author’s writing style, this homily has not been edited and may not be by a hired hand.

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27 Sun. Ord. B: To be faithful in marriage

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27 Sunday of the Year B

Gn 2:18-24; Dt 2:9-11; Mk 10:2-16

According to scripture, each relationship between God and his people is called a covenant. God initiated a covenant by expressing his love toward his people. God invited his people to respond to his love.

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About the author

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Hinh_ve_Cha_Trong-1 To search a genealogy of a family of eight children: five sons and three daughters, at Ðồng Nhân village, Kim Sơn district, Ninh Bình province of North Việt Nam, one finds the last one named Trần Bình Trọng, with a baptismal name John, born April 14, 1944.

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25 Sun. Ord. B: Whishing to be first must serve in humility

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25 Sunday of the Year B

Wis 2:12, 17-20; Jas 3:16-4:3; Mk 9:30-37

In the Old Testament, a number of prophecies about a messiah spoke of a worldwide kingdom. According to the prophecies, a certain time would come when all nations would submit to the offspring of David, and spiritual Jerusalem would draw all people together.

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Contents of a book: ‘Every Week God Speaks We Respond’ to be published.

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CNTD-A Introduction: This is the ‘Table of contents’ of a book titled ‘Every Week God Speaks We Respond’, Cycle A, intended to be published in English by Reverend John T. B. Trong (Gioan Trần Bình Trọng). The book was published in Vietnamese in the US in 2007 and re-published in Viet Nam in 2010.

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23 Sun./B: That I may see and hear

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23 Sunday of the Year B

Is 35:4-7; Jas 2:1-5; Mk 7:31-37

Often times we take things we have for granted and do not appreciate what we have until we have lost it. That is why a Vietnamese proverb says: Having disease of the eye often makes one feel sympathetic for the blind. We take for granted our ability to speak and hear.

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33 Sun./ B: As for the last day, no body knows.

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33 Sunday of the Year B

Dn 12:1-3; Heb 10:11-14, 18; Mk 13:24-32

As the end of the liturgical year draws near, the Church uses scripture passages referring to disasters in the world that can be expected toward the end of the world. Today is the next to the last Sunday of the liturgical year. Next Sunday is Christ the King Sunday.

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21 Sun. B: Master, to whom shall we go?

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21 Sunday of the Year B

Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17,18b; Eph 5:21-32; Jn 6:60-69

When God created humankind, he gave us freedom to choose: either to accept or reject him. After having fulfilled the mission Moses gave, that is to bring God’s chosen people into the Promised Land, Joshua assembled the elders of the people at Sikem so that he could reaffirmed his belief in God.

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31 Sun. / Ord. B: Realting the triple love: God, neighbor and self

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31 Sunday of the Year B

Dt 6:2-6; Heb 7:23-28; Mk 12:28-34

Reading love novels or watching love movies, people tend to think love is romantic. Signs expressing love between characters in those movies or novels seem to be romantic and poetic.

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Sun./Assumption of Mary, B: Loving and seeking things of heaven

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The Assumption of Mary into heaven, Year B

Kh 11:19a - 12:1-6a, 10ab; 1Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56

Right from the early Church, the whole Church believed that Mary was taken to Heaven body and soul. Before the dogma of Mary’s Assumption was proclaimed in 1950, a worldwide consultation had taken.

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29 Sun./ Ord. B: Wanting to be great, must serve as servants

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29 Sunday of the Year B

Is 53:10-11; Dt 4:10-16; Mk 10:35-45

Human ambition is to have a position in the social ladder. That is why the two apostles James and John attempted to ask Jesus a favor: one sitting beside him at his right and the other at his left in his kingdom.

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19 Sun / Ord. B: To be able to believe, one must keep mind and heart open

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19 Sunday of the Year B

1 Kgs 19:4-8; Eph 4:30 – 5:2; Ga 6:11-52

The Gospel of last Sunday tells us the crowd following Jesus to the other side of the Sea of Galilee. They mentioned their ancestors who had eaten manna in the desert provided by Moses (Jn 6:31).

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