14 October, Wednesday — Put kindness in your voice
Oct 14 – Memorial for St. Callistus I, Pope and Martyr St. Callistus (d. 223) was born a slave, owned by Carpophorus, a Christian in the household of Caesar. His master entrusted a large sum to Callistus to open a bank, which took in several deposits, made several loans to people who refused to pay…
13 October, Tuesday — Pedants and Pharisees
Tuesday of Week 28 in Ordinary Time Gal 5:1-6Lk 11:37-41 But if you do look to the Law to make you justified, then you have separated yourselves from Christ… Our family is in the middle of planning a funeral. A death in the family is one of those things that throws up all sorts of…
12 October, Monday — Fear of our Lord & Fortitude
Monday of Week 28 in Ordinary Time Gal 4:22-24,26-27,31-5:1Lk 11:29-32 When Christ freed us, he meant us to remain free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. The backdrop to today’s first reading was the assertion by converts from Judaism who challenged St Paul’s authority and teachings, suggesting to…
11 October, Sunday — By His Strength
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Isa 25:6-10Phi 4:12-14,19-20Mt 22:1-14 There is nothing I cannot master with the help of the One who gives me strength. Were there times in the past week or month where you thought you could not carry on? Perhaps you are a caregiver for a loved one. You have a son…
10 October, Saturday — Keeping the Faith or the Law?
Saturday of Week 27 in Ordinary Time Gal 3:22-29Lk 11:27-28 Scripture makes no exceptions when it says that sin is master everywhere. In this way the promise can only be given through faith in Jesus Christ and can only be given to those who have this faith. When I was in secondary school, we had…
9 October, Friday, — Look for something wonderful today
Friday of Week 27 in Ordinary Time Gal 3:7-14Lk 11:15-26 Great are the works of the Lord, to be pondered by all who love them. One of the subjects I took back in university was cell biology. I still remember that there were so many steps within a single cell for one process to take…
8 October, Thursday — The courage to ask, the courage to know
Thursday of Week 27 in Ordinary Time Gal 3:15Lk 11:5-13 “For the one who asks always receives.” One of the things I learned in the corporate world was to just ask, because we never know if the answer will be ‘yes’. But if we never ask, the answer will always be ‘no’. Even with this…
7 October, Wednesday — Confidence in God
Oct 7 – Memorial for Our Lady of the Rosary This day was originally observed as the Feast of Our Lady of Victory. Its date was chosen to commemorate the European victory at the third naval Battle of Lepanto in 1571. This battle marked the high point of Turkish (Muslim) advance on European soil with…
6 October, Tuesday — Martha or Mary
Oct 6 – Memorial for St. Bruno, Priest St. Bruno (1030–1101) was educated in Paris and Rheims, France. He was ordained in 1055. He taught theology, and one of his students later became Blessed Pope Urban II. He presided over the cathedral school at Rheims from 1057 to 1075. He criticised the worldliness he saw…
5 October, Monday — I am ready.
Oct 5 – Memorial for St. Faustina Kowalska, Virgin, religious, Christian Mystic Maria Faustyna Kowalska (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938), also known as Saint Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament and popularly spelled Faustina, was a Polish Roman Catholic nun and mystic. Her apparitions of Jesus Christ inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of “Secretary of Divine Mercy”. Throughout her…
4 October, Sunday — Chosen to Bear Fruit
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Isa 5:1-7Phi 4:6-9Mt 21:33-43 “I tell you, then, that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.” In today’s Gospel, Jesus told of the parable of the landowner and his ungrateful tenants. When the time came, instead of giving…
3 October, Saturday — Offering up my homework
Saturday of Week 26 in Ordinary Time Job 42:1-3,5-6,12-17Lk 10:17-24 It was then that, filled with joy by the Holy Spirit, he said: “I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children.” Whenever I go through today’s Gospel passage,…
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