31 Oct _____________________ Romans 11:29-36 God never takes back his gifts or revokes his choice. Just as you changed from being disobedient to God, and now enjoy mercy because of their disobedience, so those who are disobedient now – and only because of the mercy shown to you – will also enjoy mercy eventually. God [...]
30 Oct – Thirty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time God’s Message Of Eternal Life How easy it is for human pride to falsify God’s message, to make capital out of it. Today let us honour God in humility, sincerity and truth, – The Sunday Missal _____________________ Malachi 1:14-2:2.8-10 I am a great king, says the Lord [...]
29 Oct _____________________ Romans 11:1-2.11-12.25-29 Let me put a further question: is it possible that God has rejected his people? Of course not. I, an Israelite, descended from Abraham through the tribe of Benjamin, could never agree that God had rejected his people, the people he chose specially long ago. Do you remember what scripture [...]
28 Oct – Feast of Ss Simon and Jude, Apostles Simon was an apostle called the Cananean or Zealot because of his zeal for the Jewish law. He was not from Cana, nor a member of the Zealot party. Like all the Apostles, he was a convert, and was trained by St. Peter the Apostle. [...]
27 Oct _____________________ Romans 8:31-39 With God on our side who can be against us? Since God did not spare his own Son, but gave him up to benefit us all, we may be certain, after such a gift, that he will not refuse anything he can give. Could anyone accuse those that God has [...]
26 Oct _____________________ Romans 8:26-30 The Spirit comes to help us in our weakness. For when we cannot choose words in order to pray properly, the Spirit himself expresses our plea in a way that could never be put into words, and God who knows everything in our hearts knows perfectly well what he means, [...]
24 Oct – Memorial for St Anthony Claret, Bishop Anthony Mary Claret (1807–1870) was a weaver and a seminary student with Blessed Francis Coll. He was ordained on 13 June 1835, and became a missionary in Catalonia and the Canary Islands. He directed retreats and founded the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart [...]
23 Oct – Thirteeth Sunday of Ordinary Time; Mission Sunday The Commandment of Love Today, through the strength that Christ gives us, we can celebrate with the joy of the Holy Spirit that great commandment of love which once had to be imposed on men under threat of God’s avenging anger. – The Sunday Missal [...]
22 Oct _____________________ Romans 8:1-11 The reason why those who are in Christ Jesus are not condemned is that the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. God has done what the Law, because of our unspiritual nature, was unable to do. [...]
21 Oct _____________________ Romans 7:18-25 I know of nothing good living in me – living, that is, in my unspiritual self – for though the will to do what is good is in me, the performance is not, with the result that instead of doing the good things I want to do, I carry out [...]
