From our Gospel reading for today, from St Luke: ‘Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And there was a woman who had had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. And when Jesus saw her, he called her and said to […]
Here is part of today’s Gospel reading: ‘And they came to Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, […]
Here is part of our New Testament reading, from Romans: ‘There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. … For those who live according to the flesh set their minds […]
Today is the Memoria of Pope St John Paul II, giant of the Catholic Church. In this Year of St Joseph, we quote from his Apostolic Exhortation on St Joseph, ‘Redemptoris Custos’: ‘The same aura of silence that envelops everything else about Joseph also shrouds his work as a carpenter in the house of Nazareth. […]
St Paul, writing in Romans, said: ‘Now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord’. St John Chrysostom […]
‘This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God’. These searching and challenging words are from our Gospel reading for today. One key element in preparing for the day that our soul […]
Today is also the Optional Memoria of St Paul of the Cross, the eighteenth century Founder of the Passionist Order. A missionary congregation with a special devotion to the passion of Our Lord, its Founder had a special interest in this country. Later, the Passionist Blessed Dominic Barberi was to come to this land and […]
It is to St Luke that we owe the accounts of the Annunciation, the Visitation, and the other infancy stories of the Child Jesus, which form the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary. They have contributed so very much to our faith, more than we can ever express. May we be led into profound prayer through […]
From today’s Gospel reading, from St Mark: ‘Whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many’. This reading continues a […]
St Margaret Mary lived in France in the seventeenth century, and it is to her that we owe the present day devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She received many revelations from Our Lord, but in 1675 she received twelve promises made to her and to those who were truly devoted to His Sacred […]