08 Jan – Friday after Epiphany ____________________ 1 John 5:5-13 Who can overcome the world? Only the man who believes that Jesus is Son of God: Jesus Christ who came by water and blood, not with water only, but with water and blood; with the Spirit as another witness – since the Spirit is the [...]
07 Jan – Thursday after Epiphany; Memorial for St Raymond of Penyafort, Priest St. Raymond (1175-1275) was of Aragonian nobility. He was educated at the cathedral school in Barcelona, and became a philosophy teacher at the age of 20. He was a priest. He graduated from law school in Bologna, Italy, and joined the Dominicans [...]
06 Jan – Wednesday after Epiphany ____________________ 1 John 4:11-18 My dear people, since God has loves us so much, we too should love one another. No one has ever seen God; but as long as we love one another God will live in us and his love will be complete in us. We can [...]
05 Jan – Tuesday after Epiphany ____________________ 1 John 4:7-10 My dear people, let us love one another since love comes from God and everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Anyone who fails to love can never have known God, because God is love. God’s love for us is revealed when [...]
04 Jan – Monday after Epiphany ____________________ 1 John 3:22-4:6 Whatever we ask God, we shall receive, because we keep his commandments and live the kind of life that he wants. His commandments are these: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and that we love one another as he told [...]
03 Jan – Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord The Revelation Of Christ To The World We join all the people of the world in worshipping the infant King of the Jews – The Sunday Missal ____________________ Isaiah 60:1-6 Arise, shine out Jerusalem, for your light has come, the glory of the Lord is [...]
02 Jan – Memorial for Ss Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Doctors of the Church Basil the Great (329-379) was a noble by birth. His parents and four of his nine siblings were canonized, including St. Gregory of Nyssa. He was the grandson of St. Marcina the Elder. As a youth, he was [...]
01 Jan – Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God is celebrated on Jan 1, the Octave Day of Christmas (i.e. 8th day after Christmas). It is a celebration of Mary’s motherhood of Jesus. The title “Mother of God” is a western derivation from the Greek term ‘theotokos’, the [...]
31 Dec – Seventh Day within Christmas Octave; Commemoration of St Silvester, Pope Sylvester (d. 335) was pope in the reign of Emperor Constantine I, who built the Lateran and other churches. He sent legates to the First Council of Nicaea, and was involved in the controversy over Arianism. The spurious Donation of Constantine was [...]
30 Dec – Sixth Day within Christmas Octave ____________________ 1 John 2:12-17 I am writing to you, my own children, whose sins have already been forgiven through his name; I am writing to you, fathers, who have come to know the one who has existed since the beginning; I am writing to you, young men, [...]
