30 Sep – Memorial for St Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church St Jerome (347-419) led a misspent youth. He later converted in theory, being baptised in 365, and then had a true conversion when he studied theology. Monk. He revised the Latin text of the Bible. The result of his 30 years of [...]
29 Sep – Feast of The Holy Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael You should be aware that the word “angel” denotes a function rather than a nature. Those holy spirits of heaven have indeed always been spirits. They can only be called angels when they deliver some message. Moreover, those who deliver messages of lesser [...]
28 Sep – Memorial for St Wenceslaus, Martyr; Memorial for Ss Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, Martyrs Wenceslaus (907-929) was the son of Vratislav I, Duke of Bohemia, whose family had been converted by St. Cyril and St. Methodius, and Drahomira, daughter of a pagan chief, who was baptised on her wedding day but apparently never [...]
27 Sep – Twenty-Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time God’s Spirit In The World We praise God for all his prophets: men and women of every nation and creed who have resisted evil and manifested the Spirit in their lives – The Sunday Missal ____________________ Numbers 11:25-29 The Lord came down in the Cloud. He spoke [...]
26 Sep – Memorial for Ss Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs St Cosmas and St Damian were twin brothers. They were physicians who accepted no payment. Their charity brought many to Christ. Although they were tortured during the persecutions of Diocletian, the two suffered no injury. – Patron Saint Index ____________________ Zechariah 2:5-9.14-15 Raising my eyes, [...]
25 Sep ____________________ Haggai 1:15-2:9 In the second year of King Darius, on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the Lord was addressed through the prophet Hagai, as follows, ‘You are to speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the high commissioner of Judah, to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, [...]
24 Sep ____________________ Haggai 1:1-8 In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord was addressed through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, high commissioner of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as follows, ‘The Lord of hosts [...]
23 Sep – Memorial for St Pius of Pieltrelcina (Padre Pio), Priest St Pio (1887-1968) was ordained when he was 22. He founded the House for the Relief of Suffering in 1956, a hospital that serves 60,000 a year. In the 1920s he started a series of prayer groups that continue today with over 400,000 [...]
22 Sep ____________________ Ezra 6:7-8.12.14-20 King Darius wrote to the satrap of Transeuphrates and his colleagues: ‘Leave the high commissioner of Judah and the elders of the Jews to work on this Temple of God; they are to rebuild this Temple of God on its ancient site. This, I decree, is how you must assist [...]
21 Sep – Feast of St Matthew, Apostle, Evangelist Matthew was the son of Alphaeus, and he lived at Capernaum on Lake Genesareth. He was a Roman tax collector, a position equated with collaboration with the enemy by those from whom he collected taxes. Jesus’ contemporaries were surprised to see the Christ with a traitor, [...]
