Wednesday of Week 23 in Ordinary Time Col 3:1-11Lk 6:20-26 Let your thoughts be on heavenly things, not on the things that are on the earth… The verse above is taken from Colossians. It is a good reminder to us all and ties in very nicely to the Gospel of today. In the First Reading,... Continue Reading →
9 September, Tuesday — Life with Jesus is Never Boring
Sep 9 – Memorial for St. Peter Claver, Priest St Peter Claver was born in Catalonia and studied at the University of Barcelona. He became a Jesuit; and while he was studying philosophy in Mallorca, the door-keeper of the college, Alfonso Rodríguez, saw that his true vocation was to evangelize the New World, and encouraged... Continue Reading →
8 September, Monday — Loving Our Mothers, Praising Their Existence
Sep 8 – Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary The birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary announced joy and the approaching salvation of a lost world. Mary was brought into the world not like other children of Adam, infected with the contagion of sin, but pure, holy, beautiful, and glorious, adorned with... Continue Reading →
7 September, Sunday — “The eye of the needle…”
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Wis 9:13-18Phi 9-10, 12-17Lk 14:25-33 “So in the same way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions…” I believe that all of us are hoarders, even though you may claim that you are not, or that you do a ‘Marie Kondo’ once every... Continue Reading →
6 September, Saturday — St Paul is a real person
Saturday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time Col 1:21-23Lk 6:1-5 …now he has reconciled you, by his death and in that mortal body. Now you are able to appear before him holy, pure and blameless… Today’s first reading is from St Paul’s epistle (letter) to the church in Colossae. This chapter in the New Testament... Continue Reading →
5 September, Friday — Do I want to fast?
Sep 5 – Feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland... Continue Reading →
4 September, Thursday — Better Be Obedient
Thursday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time Col 1:9-14Lk 5:1-11 “…but if you say so…” We often can’t see what’s ahead of us. This is especially true for what God’s plan is for us. I can still remember very vividly one morning, what Jesus told me to do. For months, I had been praying for... Continue Reading →
3 September, Wednesday — Learning from Simon’s mother-in-law
Sep 3 – Memorial for St. Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor St. Gregory (540-590) collected the melodies and plain chants so associated with him, that they are now known as Gregorian Chants. He was elected by unanimous acclamation for pope. Incidentally, he was also the first monk to be pope. Before his papacy, he... Continue Reading →
2 September, Tuesday — Through the darkness
Tuesday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time 1 Ths 5:1-6,9-11Lk 4:31-37 …we do not belong to the night or to darkness, so we should not go on sleeping, as everyone else does, but stay wide awake and sober. I once belonged to the night and darkness. Losing someone you love does that. I was in... Continue Reading →
1 September, Monday — You’ve been sent
Monday of Week 22 in Ordinary Time 1 Ths 4:13-18Lk 4:16-30 He has sent me to bring the good news to the poor. At the end of mass, the priest will say “Go forth, the Mass is ended." For a long time, I did not know that it means we are being sent forth to... Continue Reading →
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