SUNDAY REFLECTIONS with
FR. Francis

Sirach 15: 16-21; 1 Corinthians 2: 6-10; Matthew 5: 17-37 (Rev. Dr. Francis Perry Azah) On this Sunday, we heard Jesus telling us: “Unless your holiness surpasses that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you shall not enter the kingdom of God.” Now, how could anyone be holier than the scribes and the Pharisees? They dressed in numerous images of their religion — phylacteries, or miniature lists of the Ten Commandments hung from their headbands — so that whenever they turned th

Isaiah 58: 7-10; 1 Corinthians 2: 1-5; Matthew 5: 13-16 (Rev. Dr. Francis Perry Azah) On this Sunday we are reminded by our Lord Jesus that we are the salt of the earth and a light of the world and as such we need to demonstrate for others to see these qualities that we possess. To be successful in achieving a goal we must take care at the beginning to determine the correct direction, which of course, is obvious. What is not so obvious is to ask the right questions, the quest

Zephaniah 2: 3; 3: 12-13; 1 Corinthians 1: 26-31; Matthew 5: 1-12a (Rev. Dr. Francis Perry Azah) On this Sunday, we hear Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, which includes the Beatitudes. These Beatitudes are the blueprints of our Christian journey and the most basic and important concepts of our faith, of our attitude toward God and our attitude toward one another. The Beatitudes are clear, focused pictures of what Christ expects from us, his followers. We are challenged to place th