20 Mar _____________________ Ezekiel 47:1-9.12 The angel brought me to the entrance of the Temple, where a stream came out from under the Temple threshold and flowed eastwards, since the Temple faced east. The water flowed from under the right side of the Temple, south of the altar. He took me out by the north [...]
18 Mar – Fourth Sunday of Lent Christ the Redeemer Our sins had made us exiles from God’s kingdom. But just as God sent Cyrus, the King of Persia, to bring hs people back from Babylon, so in his great love he sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to bring us back to the new Jerusalem [...]
17 Mar – Memorial for St. Patrick, Bishop St. Patrick (387-390 – 461-464) was kidnapped from the British mainland when he was about 16, and shipped to Ireland as a slave. He was sent to the mountains as a shepherd, and spent his time in prayer. After six years of this life, he had a [...]
16 Mar _____________________ Hosea 14:2-10 The Lord says this: Israel, come back to the Lord your God; your iniquity was the cause of your downfall. Provide yourself with words and come back to the Lord. Say to him, ‘Take all iniquity away so that we may have happiness again and offer you our words of [...]
15 Mar _____________________ Jeremiah 7:23-28 These were my orders: Listen to my voice, then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Follow right to the end the way that I mark out for you, and you will prosper. But they did not listen, they did not pay attention; they followed the [...]
14 Mar _____________________ Deuteronomy 4:1.5-9 Moses said to the people: ‘Now, Israel, take notice of the laws and customs that I teach you today, and observe them, that you may have life and may enter and take possession of the land that the Lord the God of your fathers is giving you. ‘See, as the [...]
13 Mar _____________________ Daniel 3:25.34-43 Azariah stood in the heart of the fire, and he began to pray: Oh! Do not abandon us for ever, for the sake of your name; do not repudiate your covenant, do not withdraw your favour from us, for the sake of Abraham, your friend, of Isaac your servant, and [...]
12 Mar _____________________ 2 Kings 5:1-15 Naaman, army commander to the king of Aram, was a man who enjoyed his master’s respect and favour, since through him the Lord had granted victory to the Aramaeans. But the man was a leper. Now on one of their raids, the Aramaeans had carried off from the land [...]
11 Mar – Third Sunday of Lent Christ, The Wisdom Of God Today, we celebrate the foolishness of God that is wiser than any human widsom: the utter folly of his love that allowed the destruction of the temple of the body of his Son. And we dedicate ourselves anew to the Law of the [...]
10 Mar _____________________ Micah 7:14-15.18-20 With shepherd’s crook, O Lord, lead your people to pasture, the flock that is your heritage, living confined in a forest with meadow land all around. Let them pasture in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old. As in the days when you came out of Egypt grant [...]
