05 Feb – Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Christ Who Makes Us Free To Serve Without Christ our lives would be pure drudgery. We would be like slaves, or like workmen with nothing to look forward to but our wages. But the healing power of Christ has transformed our lives: now we are free to [...]
04 Feb _____________________ 1 Kings 3:4-13 King Solomon went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, since that was the greatest of the high places – Solomon offered a thousand holocausts on that altar. At Gibeon the Lord appeared in a dream to Solomon during the night. God said, ‘Ask what you would like me to give [...]
03 Feb – Memorial for St. Blaise, Bishop & Martyr; Memorial for St. Ansgar, Bishop Blaise (d. 316) was a physician and Bishop of Sebaste, Armenia. He lived in a cave on Mount Argeus. He was a healer of men and animals. According to legend, sick animals would come to him on their own for [...]
01 Feb _____________________ 2 Samuel 24:2.8-17 King David said to Joab and to the senior army officers who were with him, ‘Now go throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and take a census of the people; I wish to know the size of the population.’ Having covered the whole country, they returned [...]
31 Jan St. John Bosco (1815-1888) was the son of Venerable Margaret Bosco. His father died when he was just two years old, and as soon as he was old enough to do odd jobs, he did so for extra money for his family. Bosco would go to circuses, fairs, and carnivals, practise the tricks [...]
30 Jan _____________________ Dear readers, We apologise for the recent halt in your OXYGEN delivery. Aside from late payment of our bills, we also ran into some technical difficulties. It’s fixed now, but if you run into any trouble either from our mailing list or from the website, please drop us an email or comment [...]
29 Jan – Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time The Lord, Our Teacher Today we celebrate him who speaks with authority and to whom we must give our undivided attention. – The Sunday Missal _____________________ Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Moses said to the people: ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like myself, from [...]
28 Jan – Memorial for St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest & Doctor of the Church Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) was the son of the Count of Aquino. He was born in the family castle in Lombardy near Naples, Italy. He was educated by Benedictine monks at Monte Cassino, and at the University of Naples. He secretly joined [...]
27 Jan – Memorial for St. Angela Merici, Virgin St. Angela Merici (1474-1540) became a Franciscan tertiary at the age of 15. She received a vision telling her that she would inspire devout women in their vocation. In Crete, during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, she was struck blind. Her friends wanted to return [...]
26 Jan – Memorial for Sts. Timothy and Titus, Bishops Timothy (d. 97) was the son of a Greek gentile, his mother Eunice was Jewish. He was converted to Christianity by St. Paul around the year 47. He was a partner, assistant and close friend of Paul. He was a missionary as well, and became [...]
